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David P. Shorthouse

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Affiliation: Marine Biological Laboratory - Encyclopedia of Life
Position: Biodiversity Informatician
Work Address: Marine Biological Laboratory, Broderick House
7 MBL Street
Woods Hole, MA
United States 02543
Work Phone: N/A
Email: dshorthouse(at)eol.org
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Present Work:
  1. Project leader for the Encyclopedia of Life LifeDesk environment.
  2. Managing/developing the Canadian Arachnologist website
    3. Maintaining the Nearctic Spider Database
  3. Maintaining the Nearctic Arachnologists' Forum
  4. Maintaining Spider WebWatch.
  5. Science and Technology Advisory Board, Canadensys
Past Work: Effect of forest management practices on the biodiversity of ground-dwelling spiders in the Peace River, Alberta region.

Assessment of anthropogenically derived habitats on reclaimed mine tailings in Sudbury, Ontario using spiders as a focal taxon.
Expertise/Interests: Forest spider behaviour and ecology. Forest management using spiders as a biodiversity and environmental indicator group. Biodiversity informatics.
David P. Shorthouse

Publications

Blog: http://ispiders.blogspot.com/

Curriculum Vitae (40kb PDF)

REFEREED ARTICLES

  1. Buddle C. M., and D. P. Shorthouse. Effects of experimental harvesting on boreal forest spider (Araneae) assemblages. The Canadian Entomologist, In press (accepted 03/2007)
  2. Work, T. T., D. P. Shorthouse, J. R. Spence, W. J. A. Volney, and D. Langor. 2004. Stand composition and structure of the boreal mixedwood and epigaeic arthropods of the EMEND landbase in Northwestern Alberta. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 34(2): 417-430.
  3. Gregory, T. R. and D. P. Shorthouse. 2003. Genome sizes of spiders. Journal of Heredity 94(4): 285-290.
  4. Shorthouse, J. D., H. Goulet, and D. P. Shorthouse. 2003. Notes on cynipid galls, carabid beetles and ground-dwelling spiders of Fort Severn, Ontario and potential of the area for studying biodiversity and effects of climatic change. Arctic 56(2): 159-167.

THESES

Shorthouse, D.P. 1998. The diversity and succession of wandering spider communities on Inco Ltd. reclaimed tailings habitats. Masters of Science, Laurentian University.

NON-REFEREED ARTICLES

  1. Shorthouse, David. 2006. Biodiversity databases: Getting the data in, out, and shared. Bulletin of the Entomological Society of Canada 38(1): 8-11 (Accessible HERE - 890 kb PDF)
  2. Shorthouse, David P. 2005. Biodiversity databases on shoestring budgets: The Canadian Arachnologist on-line spider database. Newsletter of the Biological Survey of Canada (Terrestrial Arthropods) 24(2): 53-55.
  3. Shorthouse, David P. 2005. Spiders at the hub of Canadian Forest Research (Feature Article). Arthropods of Canadian Forests (Newsletter) 1: 17-23.
  4. John R. Spence, Ralph Cartar, Mary Reid, David W. Langor, and W. Jan A. Volney; with contributions from Jane Park, Louis Morneau, David Shorthouse, Julia Wesley (nee Dunlop), and Tim Work. March 2003. Dynamics of arthropod assemblages in forests managed to emulate natural disturbance (BUGS). Sustainable Forest Management Project Report 2003-2.
  5. Shorthouse, D.P. 2003. Assessing individual spider movements. Canadian Arachnologist 4: 7-10.
  6. Shorthouse, David P. 2003. Spiders at the hub of new forestry. Environmental News (Environmental Research and Studies Centre, University of Alberta) 3(2): 1-2.
  7. Spence, John, Jan Volney, Derek Sidders, Steve Luchkow, Tim Vinge, Frank Oberle, Dan Gilmore, J. P. Bielech, Pat Wearmouth, Jason Edwards, Peter Bothwell, David Shorthouse, Dan Wilkinson, and Suzanne Brais. 2002. The EMEND Experience. Pp. 40-44 In T Veeman et al. (Eds), Advances in Forest Management: From Knowledge to Practice, Proceedings of SFMN Conference, 13-15 Nov, Edmonton, Alberta. SFMN Network, Edmonton, Canada.
  8. Buddle, C.M. and D.P. Shorthouse. 2000. Jumping spiders of Canada. Newsletter of the Biological Survey of Canada (Terrestrial Arthropods) 19(1): 16-18.