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The IABIN Pollinators Thematic Network

The IABIN Pollinators Thematic Network. 5 th Council Meeting of IABIN Punta 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.

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The IABIN Pollinators Thematic Network

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  1. The IABIN Pollinators Thematic Network 5th Council Meeting of IABIN Punta del Este, Uruguay May 9, 2007 Michael Ruggiero, Laurie Adams, and Antonio Saraiva

  2. 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.

  3. 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 Kinds of Pollinators

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

  5. 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

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

  7. PTN Data Standards • Use existing standards • Seek interoperability

  8. PTN Activities andWork Plan

  9. 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

  10. Joint IABIN/GBIF Workshop More than 35 Experts on Pollinators and IT from the Americas and from GBIF and FAO

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

  12. pollinators.iabin.net

  13. PTN Work Plan • Information needs assessment • Partnerships • Coordination • Network architecture and standards • Gap analysis of content

  14. Information Needs Assessment INFORMATION NEEDS ASSESSMENT

  15. Respondents Interest or Experience

  16. Geographic Expertise

  17. Most Desired Content

  18. Information Most Needed (Issues)

  19. PARTNERSHIPS • North American Pollinator Protection Campaign • Brazilian Pollinator Initiative • GBIF • IPI: CBD & FAO

  20. COORDINATION

  21. PTN ARCHITECTURE AND STANDARDS

  22. PTN Architecture and Protocols

  23. 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)

  24. 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

  25. 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)

  26. PTN Portal • Portal • Customize GBIF solution: new version available • Collaboration with SSTN/InBIO who uses same tools

  27. Plant-pollinator Relationships • Strategy • The data can be retrieved from existing systems. • Webbee, others …

  28. 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)

  29. PTN USE CASES

  30. 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

  31. 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

  32. PTN Integration with Others

  33. IABIN Thematic Networks • Integration: • Species and Specimens: Digir-Tapir/DwC/PlC • Relationships: depends on a common schema • Experts: IABIN • Bibliography: none

  34. 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

  35. GAP ANALYSIS OF CONTENT

  36. Scientific and Common Names • 10,000 bees • 5,000 completed • 500 hummingbirds • Complete • 300 bats • Complete

  37. Experts • > 100 identified

  38. 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

  39. Just Starting • Pollinator-plant associations • Literature

  40. http://pollinators.iabin.net THANK YOU GRACIAS OBRIGADO MERCI DANK U

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