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WebBee

WebBee. A Brazilian information network on bees . Antonio Mauro Saraiva Universidade de São Paulo. CODATA Workshop – 8-10 May 2007 Atibaia - Brazil. About Pollinators. > 80% of flowering plants are pollinated by animals. > 1/3 of the world's major food crops.

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WebBee

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  1. WebBee • A Brazilian information network on bees. • Antonio Mauro Saraiva • Universidade de São Paulo CODATA Workshop – 8-10 May 2007 Atibaia - Brazil

  2. About Pollinators • > 80% of flowering plants are pollinated by animals. • > 1/3 of the world's major food crops. • $200 Billion 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.

  3. Initially: a web-based monitoring system • Focus on automatic data acquisition

  4. Colony monitoring network • Temperature, Humidity • Flight activity • Bee counter • thermoregulation

  5. A step ahead: an information system • Knowledge and information on bees need to be • organized, preserved, shared, published(!) • Target audience • scientists, beekeepers, students, teachers, policy makers, agricultural producers… • Increase public awareness on the importance and uses of pollinators • in Portuguese and other languages

  6. WebBee: information system • Contents: • Bee species data: biology, taxonomy, distribution, • Hives, equipment & numerical data • Beekeeping, plants visited • Bibliography • Dynamic web pages: database • Multimedia: texts, images, videos • Web–based: easy access and sharing

  7. WebBee Database – Species catalog • images and texts

  8. WebBee Database – Weather station (at IB – USP, São Paulo) graphics and table

  9. WebBee Database of Bibliography Documents: description and (some) files

  10. WeB Bee WebBee - a network • Groups cooperate on providing data • Species information • Experimental data / weather stations • By region, taxon… • Distributed Effort • Intellectual property • authorship • neutral domain: www.webbee.org.br

  11. WeB Bee Participants: BeeLab – Instituto de Biociências da USP Agricultural Automation Lab – Escola Politécnica - USP Embrapa Amazônia Oriental Labe - Empresa Baiana de Desenvolvimento Agrícola – EBDA Universidade Est. de Feira de Santana - UEFS

  12. Centralized database Remote data-entry tool Other features: plants visited (names, images) pollen characteristics Status

  13. Brazilian Pollinators Initiative (BPI) website • events • publications • timeline • activities

  14. Other features • tribute to important Brazilian scientists • Web pages for • Dr. Jesus S. Moure, • Dr. Paulo Nogueira Neto • Dr. Warwick E. Kerr, • have already been / are being developed. • Individual contributions • Dr. Rodrigo Singer • Bees and orchids • Dr. Anthony Raw • megachilidae

  15. Virtual network center of ecosystem services • Research consortium • Escola Politécnica & Instituto de Biociências (USP), • Instituto de Botânica • University of California, S. Diego • Objectives • Develop WebLabs on two ecosystem services • Pollination • Photosynthesis • Research / Education / Awareness raising • Use / develop content / applications for the Advanced Internet

  16. High resolution images of bees • Database • high resolution images (several Mpixels)

  17. High resolution images for identification and classification Instead of this image • It may replace the real specimen • which is usually sent by mail for comparison

  18. Use of Video via Internet on R&Eon Pollination Objectives: • Research • Allow remote access to field or lab experiments • Facilitate collaboration between researchers • Use an Advanced Internet for real-time video streaming: HD video • Education / training / decision making • Make available materials on biology/ keeping of bees • Reach wider audience • “commodity” Internet – SD videos

  19. Database - Video • Research and educational videos • SD video(640x480) • easy access via Internet • behavioral patterns of each species. • students, researchers and beekeepers can recognize bee species Behavior at the bee hive entrance (Melipona crinita)

  20. The IABIN Pollinators Thematic Network InterAmerican Biodiversity Information Network

  21. PTN Vision A Pollinators Thematic Network for the Americas which will facilitate integration of information about pollinators in an efficient retrieval system

  22. IABIN - PTN • Co-Evolution Institute • Universidade de Sao Paulo • ITIS - Integrated Taxonomic Information System • NBII - National Biological Information Infrastructure • CRIA - Centro de Referência em Informação Ambiental

  23. PTN System Content • Scientific and common names • Experts • Specimens and observations • Pollinator-plant associations • Literature

  24. PTN Architecture

  25. PTN Group Portal pollinators.incubadora.fapesp.br

  26. Thank you ! Visit us at: http://www.webbee.org.br

  27. (Originally a) HD video

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