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The IABIN Pollinators Thematic Network
5th Council Meeting of IABINPunta del Este, Uruguay
May 9, 2007
Michael Ruggiero, Laurie Adams, and Antonio Saraiva
About Pollinators
• > 80% of flowering plants are pollinated by animals.
• > 1/3 of the world's major food crops.
• $200 Billon annually in value for global agriculture.
• 10,000 bee, 500 bat, and 300 hummingbird species in the Americas
• There is growing evidence that pollinators are declining in the Americas and globally.
Kinds of Pollinators
INSECTS
• Bees• Beetles• Butterflies• Crickets• Flies• Midges• Mosquitoes• Moths• Wasps
REPTILES• Geckos • Skinks• Anoles• Lacertidae• Tegus and Whiptails
BIRDS• Hummingbirds• Sunbirds • Honeyeaters• Sugarbirds • Flowerpeckers • White-winged Doves
MAMMALS• Bats• Opossums and Marsupials• Monkeys and Lemurs• Rodents
PTN Vision
A Pollinators Thematic Network for the
Americas
which will facilitate integration of
information about pollinators
in an efficient retrieval system
PTN Goal
To develop a network of
linked and integrated databases among major data sources and IABIN members
that share critical content through a
common set of data standards and exchange protocols
PTN System Content
• Scientific and common names
• Experts• Specimens and
observations • Pollinator-plant
associations• Literature
PTN Data Standards
• Use existing standards
• Seek interoperability
PTN Activities andWork Plan
PTN Activities
• Activities began in Jul ‘06
• Joint IABIN/GBIF Workshop in Dec ‘06
• Communication– Periodic Conference Calls of Management Team– PTN Public Website (pollinators.iabin.net) in Nov ‘06– Portal (pollinators.incubadora.fapesp.br) in Jan ‘07
Joint IABIN/GBIF Workshop
More than 35 Experts on Pollinators and IT from the Americas and from
GBIF and FAO
PTN Group Portal
pollinators.incubadora.fapesp.br
pollinators.iabin.net
PTN Work Plan
• Information needs assessment
• Partnerships
• Coordination
• Network architecture and standards
• Gap analysis of content
Information Needs Assessment
INFORMATION NEEDS ASSESSMENT
Respondents Interest or Experience
0% 2% 4% 6% 8% 10% 12% 14% 16% 18% 20%
Agricultural
Apicultural
Botanical
Conservation
Ecological
Industry / Industrial
Legislation / Policy
Monitoring
Regulation
Research/Science
Taxonomic
Geographic Expertise
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35
Venezuela
Uruguay
United States
Suriname
Peru
Paraguay
Panama
Nicaragua
Mexico
Jamaica
Honduras
Haiti
Guyana
Guatemala
French Guiana
El Salvador
Ecuador
Cuba
Costa Rica
Colombia
Chile
Canada
Brazil
Bolivia
Belize
Bahamas
Argentina
Most Desired Content
0% 2% 4% 6% 8% 10% 12%
Bibliographies
GIS shape files / georeferenced data
Lists or registries of experts
Management plans (habitats)
Management plans (pollinators)
Maps (interactive species / habitat)
Maps (static species / habitat)
Pesticide use / affects / guidelines
Point data / field observations
Pollinator-plant association data
Publication collections
Species identification keys / guides
Species lists
Species profiles / fact sheets
Specimen collections
Taxonomies / taxonomic trees
Information Most Needed (Issues)
0 5 10 15 20
Pollinator distribution
Pollinator habitats
Population census data
Population ecology
Plant distribution
Plant-pollinator associations
Introduced species effects
Pesticide effects
Agricultural effects
Pollinator services
PARTNERSHIPS
• North American Pollinator Protection Campaign
• Brazilian Pollinator Initiative
• GBIF
• IPI: CBD & FAO
COORDINATION
IABIN GBIF
Goal Electronic pollinator information network for the Americas Facilitate availability of primary taxonomic content data for world’s pollinators and provide to global Pollinator Information Management System
Scope Western Hemisphere World
Primary Content
New World checklists of bees, hummingbirds, bats, and other important pollinating species
Specimens in major collections Pollinator experts Pollinator-plant associations Literature on pollinators Other data as available (e.g., geographic, genetic)
Global checklists of bees, hummingbirds, bats, and other important pollinating species
Specimen and observation data from major collections and monitoring programs
Uses of Data Scientists, resource managers, policy makers, students, farmers, public, others
Scientists, resource managers, policy makers, students, farmers, public, others
Currently Available Data
Complete checklists for New World bees (draft), hummingbirds, and bats (ca. 10,000 valid names)
> 500, 000 specimen records readily available for internet access Draft list of more than 150 pollinator experts Plant pollinator association data available in several databases Literature citations available in several data bases (also through UBIO
RSS feed)
Complete checklists for world bees (draft), hummingbirds, and bats (ca. 20,000 valid names)
> 500, 000 specimen records readily available for internet access
Location of Data
Checklists in ITIS, Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life, and GBIF ECAT; and personal databases
Specimens in Western Hemisphere and European collections Experts, plant-pollinator data, literature in personal lists and on Internet
Checklists in ITIS, Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life, and GBIF ECAT; and personal databases
Specimens in Western Hemisphere, European, Asian, Australian, and African collections
Future Data Needs
Images, genetics, environmental, pollinator parasites
Resources IABIN: 180K (06-08); IABIN content: 240K (07-08); U.S., Brazil, Mexico, Canada, Colombia governments; Bilateral agreements
GBIF Campaign (potential): 175K Euro (07); European Commission Framework (?); GBIF Participants (?); FAO (?)
Partnerships NGO’s, Industry, Institutions, etc., NGO’s, Industry, Institutions, etc.,
PTN ARCHITECTURE AND STANDARDS
PTN Architecture and Protocols
IABIN PTN Portal
Specimens in Collections
Tapir/DigirDwC
GBIF
SpeciesLink
IABIN – PTNSpecimen data
providers
IABIN – SSTN
IABIN specimen data host
Plant-pollinator relationship
SpeciesLink
IABIN-SSTN
GBIF
Tapir/Digir?schema?
WebBee
Species DataProviders
Checklist of collections/pollinating
species
LiteratureExperts
Database
Experts DB
Tapir/DigirDwC
WebBee
Experts Directory
• Adopt solution of NBII/I3N– PHP code / MySQL (local PTN database).
• Consider also compatibility with– TRED – Taxonomic Resources Expertise
Directory– PCDL – Pollinator Conservation Digital Library
(NAPPC)
Specimens in Major Collections
• Distributed architecture
– Data owner = data provider
– If necessary: PTN may host data
• Not on a permanent basis
• Build local capacity to host data in the future
• Regional servers / IABIN server
Specimens in Major Collections
• Data providers (potential)– speciesLink-enabled collections– GBIF data providers– PTN Partners: RFP on digitization– Data acquisition tool
• Encourage use of existing tools• speciesLink approach: CMS+wrapper
• Avoid duplicates (data “served” twice)
PTN Portal
• Portal– Customize GBIF solution: new version
available
– Collaboration with SSTN/InBIO who uses same tools
Plant-pollinator Relationships
• Strategy– The data can be retrieved from existing
systems.• Webbee, others …
Data Schema for Plant-pollinator Relationships
• Usual schemas are not adequate
• Direction: – Extension of an existing schema (DwC)– Suggest additional fields for Plinian Core – Beta-version (July ‘07)
PTN USE CASES
PTN Use Cases
Basic Use Cases for beta-version:
– Identification of individual specimens
– Construct species list for a specific region
– Search for information on the animal pollinators of a specific plant
– Search for information on pollinator experts
PTN Use Cases
Other Use Cases (based on survey results):
– Predictive modeling of pollinator distributions– Indicators and monitoring– Information about abundance (species richness and
rarity)– Get full searchable text of original literature– Plant and crop distributions and associated
economic value– Access Pollinator management techniques– List of dangers or threats to pollinators– Retrieve data from Weblabs
PTN Integration with Others
IABIN Thematic Networks
• Integration: • Species and Specimens: Digir-Tapir/DwC/PlC• Relationships: depends on a common schema• Experts: IABIN• Bibliography: none
Other Initiatives
• Integration with GBIF: • Species and Specimens: Digir-Tapir/DwC/PlC
– Ex. Species link
• SpeciesLink• Pollinator data from Brazil through PTN• Support from GBIF
GAP ANALYSIS OF CONTENT
Scientific and Common Names
• 10,000 bees– 5,000 completed
• 500 hummingbirds– Complete
• 300 bats– Complete
Experts
• > 100 identified
Specimen Records
• 82 Major collections of bee specimens for the Americas– 32 in South America– 30 in North America– 2 in Central America– 18 in Europe
• 2.8 Million bee specimens in the Americas– 0.8 Million databased– 2.0 Million not databased
Just Starting
• Pollinator-plant associations
• Literature
THANK YOUGRACIAS
OBRIGADOMERCI
DANK U
http://pollinators.iabin.net