Brunke, Adam, Ph.D.
Research scientist
Contact Information:
960 Carling Ave
Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0C6
Telephone: 613-759-1903
Email: adam.brunke@canada.ca
Areas of Expertise:
- Staphylinidae/rove beetles
- Coleoptera
- Taxonomy
- Systematics
- Identification tools
- Phylogenetic analysis
- Fossil analysis
- 3-D morphological analysis
- Evolution
- Systematics
- Biogeography
Current Projects:
- Assess interactions and impacts between invasive alien species, agricultural practices and arthropod biodiversity
- Develop a national arthropod information system through the Canadian national collection of insects, arachnids and nematodes, provision of expert identification, consultation and training
- Develop systematic knowledge of arthropod pests, beneficial arthropods, and environmentally sensitive arthropods
Affiliations:
- Subject Editor for the scientific journal Zootaxa
- Subject Editor for the scientific journal Zookeys
- Subject Editor for the scientific journal Insecta Mundi
- Member of the Graduate Student Award Committee for the Coleopterists’ Society
Research publications
2019
- Brunke, A.J., Bouchard, P., Douglas, H.B. and Pentinsaari, M. 2019. Coleoptera of Canada. In: Langor, D.W., Sheffield, C.S. (Eds) The Biota of Canada – A biodiversity assessment. Part 1: the terrestrial arthropods. ZooKeys 819: 361-376.
2018
- Klimaszewski J, Webster R, Langor D, Brunke AJ, Davies A, Bourdon C, Labrecque M, Newton AF, Dorval J-A, Frank JH. 2018. Aleocharine rove beetles of Eastern Canada (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Aleocharinae): a glimpse of megadiversity. Springer Nature: Cham, Switzerland. 902 pp.
- Kypke, J.L., Solodovnikov, A., Brunke, A., Yamamoto, S., Żyła, D. (2019). The past and the present through phylogenetic analysis: the rove beetle tribe Othiini now and 99 Ma, 44(1), 1-18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/syen.12305
- Schillhammer, H. and Brunke, A. 2018. Eureka: discovery of male Turgiditarsus Schillhammer reveals its placement in Acylophorina and resolves phylogenetic relationships within the subtribe (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Staphylininae). Arthropod Systematics and Phylogeny. 76: 303-322.
2017
- Brunke, A., Smetana, A., Carruthers-Lay, D., Buffam, J. (2017). Revision of Hemiquedius Casey (Staphylinidae, Staphylininae) and a review of beetles dependent on beavers and muskrats in North America, 2017(702), 27-43. http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.702.19936
- Brunke, A.J., Chatzimanolis, S., Metscher, B.D., Wolf-Schwenninger, K., Solodovnikov, A. (2017). Dispersal of thermophilic beetles across the intercontinental Arctic forest belt during the early Eocene, 7(1), http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-13207-4
- Brunke, A.J., Schillhammer, H., Chatzimanolis, S. (2017). The first fossil rove beetle from the middle Eocene Kishenehn Formation (North America) provides evidence for ancient Eocene relicts within the hyperdiverse Staphylinini (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Staphylininae), 15(12), 1015-1025. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14772019.2016.1266402
- Chani-Posse, M.R., Brunke, A.J., Chatzimanolis, S., Schillhammer, H., Solodovnikov, A. (2018). Phylogeny of the hyper-diverse rove beetle subtribe Philonthina with implications for classification of the tribe Staphylinini (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae), 34(1), 1-40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cla.12188
- Jałoszyński, P., Brunke, A.J., Metscher, B., Zhang, W.-W., Bai, M. (2017). Clidicostigus gen. nov., the first Mesozoic genus of Mastigini (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Scydmaeninae) from Cenomanian Burmese amber, 72 110-116. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2016.12.022
2016
- Brunke, A.J. (2016). First detection of the adventive large rove beetle Ocypus nitens (Schrank) in Canada and an update of its Nearctic distribution using data generated by the public, 4(1), http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.4.e11012
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