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A Pollinators Thematic Network for the Americas. BIS-TDWG Annual Meeting 2007 Bratislava, Slovakia 20 September 2007 Michael Ruggiero and Antonio Saraiva. Antonio Saraiva Pedro Pizzigatti Etienne Cartolano Pablo Salvanha. Michael Ruggiero Laurie Adams Elizabeth Sellers Dan Phillips.
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A Pollinators Thematic Network for the Americas BIS-TDWG Annual Meeting 2007 Bratislava, Slovakia 20 September 2007 Michael Ruggiero and Antonio Saraiva POLI-USP ▪ COE ▪ ITIS ▪ NBII
Antonio Saraiva Pedro Pizzigatti Etienne Cartolano Pablo Salvanha Michael Ruggiero Laurie Adams Elizabeth Sellers Dan Phillips PTN Team POLI-USP ▪ COE ▪ ITIS ▪ NBII
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. POLI-USP ▪ COE ▪ ITIS ▪ NBII
“First, give your bees a settled safe abode…” Virgil, Georgics IV, 29 B.C.E. POLI-USP ▪ COE ▪ ITIS ▪ NBII
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 POLI-USP ▪ COE ▪ ITIS ▪ NBII
Inter-American Biodiversity Information Network (IABIN) • Initiative of the Summit of the Americas on Sustainable Development (1996) • 34 countries in the Western Hemisphere • Internet-based forum for technical and scientific cooperation • Collection, sharing, and use of biodiversity information relevant to decision-making and education. POLI-USP ▪ COE ▪ ITIS ▪ NBII
PTN Vision A Pollinators Thematic Network for the Americas which will facilitate integration of information about pollinators in an efficient retrieval system POLI-USP ▪ COE ▪ ITIS ▪ NBII
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 POLI-USP ▪ COE ▪ ITIS ▪ NBII
PTN Work Plan • Information needs assessment • Gap analysis of content • Network architecture and standards POLI-USP ▪ COE ▪ ITIS ▪ NBII
Information Needs Assessment INFORMATION NEEDS ASSESSMENT POLI-USP ▪ COE ▪ ITIS ▪ NBII
Respondents Interest or Experience POLI-USP ▪ COE ▪ ITIS ▪ NBII
Information Most Needed (Issues) POLI-USP ▪ COE ▪ ITIS ▪ NBII
Most Desired Content POLI-USP ▪ COE ▪ ITIS ▪ NBII
Geographic Expertise POLI-USP ▪ COE ▪ ITIS ▪ NBII
PTN USE CASES POLI-USP ▪ COE ▪ ITIS ▪ NBII
PTN Use Cases • 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 • Predictive modeling of pollinator distributions • Indicators and monitoring POLI-USP ▪ COE ▪ ITIS ▪ NBII
GAP ANALYSIS OF CONTENT POLI-USP ▪ COE ▪ ITIS ▪ NBII
PTN System Content • Scientific and common names • Experts • Specimens and observations • Pollinator-plant associations • Literature POLI-USP ▪ COE ▪ ITIS ▪ NBII
Scientific and Common Names • 10,000 bees • 5,000 completed • 500 hummingbirds • Complete • 300 bats • Complete POLI-USP ▪ COE ▪ ITIS ▪ NBII
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 POLI-USP ▪ COE ▪ ITIS ▪ NBII
Experts • > 100 identified POLI-USP ▪ COE ▪ ITIS ▪ NBII
IABIN-PTN Architecture and Infrastructure Project status POLI-USP ▪ COE ▪ ITIS ▪ NBII
1. IABIN-PTN Architecture 1.1 IABIN PTN Goals • Provides online access to • pollinator specimens in collections • experts database • plant-pollinator relationship tool • checklist of pollinating species • literature POLI-USP ▪ COE ▪ ITIS ▪ NBII
1. IABIN-PTN Architecture POLI-USP ▪ COE ▪ ITIS ▪ NBII
2. IABIN-PTN Portal 2.1 Goal • Provide a single entry point to all PTN data, including interfaces to distributed data providers and to local data 2.2 Solution • Use the new GBIF portal. • Native search for specimens in collections • Support to TAPIR protocol 2.3 Considerations • Environment / characteristics • CVS for source-code access / Modular • Maven for building, plus repository / Eclipse IDE • Java-based project / SQL-based database • Multi-platform support POLI-USP ▪ COE ▪ ITIS ▪ NBII
2. IABIN-PTN Portal • Facts • Under development at GBIF / Limited documentation • Good support from GBIF team • Difficulties to have it running (such as INBio) 2.4 Results • Working Maven repository for project building. • Debian Linux running on a Xeon server exclusively for the project. • Database created and in use with MySQL. • Tomcat 5.5 installed and ready to deploy. POLI-USP ▪ COE ▪ ITIS ▪ NBII
2. IABIN-PTN Portal 2.4 Results – IABIN-PTN Portal Layout POLI-USP ▪ COE ▪ ITIS ▪ NBII
3. Specimens in Collections 3.1 Goals • Link to SpeciesLink • 180,000 bee registers • Link to new providers: • RfP grantees • INBio - SSTN POLI-USP ▪ COE ▪ ITIS ▪ NBII
3. Specimens in Collections 3.2 Solutions • GBIF portal has a native ability to link to specimen data servers through DwC+TAPIR/Digir 3.3 Considerations • Our providers will comply with DwC+Tapir/Digir • Link to SpeciesLink depends on information from CRIA • Link to RfP grantees depends on the software they’ll use. Should be compatible. • Link to INBio (SSTN) depends also on their timing. POLI-USP ▪ COE ▪ ITIS ▪ NBII
4. Experts Database 4.1 Goals • To have a Pollinator Experts DB, that includes PCDL registers 4.2 Solutions • PHP code + MySQL DB • from Aquatic Nuisance Species Taskforce customized 4.3 Considerations • Needs customization of • DB Fields • Interface • design/Logo IABIN-PTN • search • Import registers from PCDL (how to?) • Add experts registers (how?) POLI-USP ▪ COE ▪ ITIS ▪ NBII
4. Experts Database 4.4 Results • Testing… 4.5 In course • Open to suggestion for new fields and queries 4.6 Next… • Modify DB and PHP code (queries) • Import PCDL database registers • Add new experts (voluntary?) • Create a link at the Portal POLI-USP ▪ COE ▪ ITIS ▪ NBII
5. Plant-Pollinator Relationship 5.1 Goals • Link PTN Portal with pollinator- plant relationship data servers • Implement an interface for relationship data search at the Portal POLI-USP ▪ COE ▪ ITIS ▪ NBII
5. Plant-Pollinator Relationship * adapted by INBio +Plinian Core 5.2 Solutions • Create a Darwin Core (DwC) extension for specimen relationship running over TAPIR. • Modify GBIF portal to support our DwC extension (pollinators) • Modify GBIF Portal* to support specimens relationship (DwC ext). • Change GBIF Portal* to run a Relationship Search Tool POLI-USP ▪ COE ▪ ITIS ▪ NBII
5. Plant-Pollinator Relationship 5.4 Results • DwC extensions proposed with CRIA and submitted for validation to TDWG: • InteractionExtension: a general schema for relationship http://wiki.tdwg.org/twiki/bin/view/DarwinCore/InteractionExtension • PollinationExtension: for the existing InteractionExtension when the RelationshipType is either VisitedFlowerOf or HadFlowerVisitedBy http://wiki.tdwg.org/twiki/bin/view/DarwinCore/PollinationExtension POLI-USP ▪ COE ▪ ITIS ▪ NBII
5. Plant-Pollinator Relationship 5.4 Results • WebBee provider running DwC + InteractionExtension for Bee-Plant relationship data : • http://143.107.164.112/tapirlink/www/tapir.php/sowb POLI-USP ▪ COE ▪ ITIS ▪ NBII
5. Plant-Pollinator Relationship 5.4 Results – Relationship Search Tool Layout POLI-USP ▪ COE ▪ ITIS ▪ NBII
5. Plant-Pollinator Relationship 5.4 Results – Relationship Search Tool Layout – (Relationship Data) POLI-USP ▪ COE ▪ ITIS ▪ NBII
5. Plant-Pollinator Relationship 5.5 In course • Analysis of GBIF Portal structure to run DwC InteractionExtension (cache database and web pages) 5.6 Next… • Work with INBio to run their GBIF Portal* (+Plinian Core) at POLI USP • Modify GBIF Portal* to run DwC InteractionExtensions POLI-USP ▪ COE ▪ ITIS ▪ NBII
6. Checklist of pollinating species 6.1 Goals • Provide a checklist of pollinating species 6.2 Solutions • Use information from ITIS 6.3 Considerations • To be defined • Evaluate different ways of doing it • Embedded access to ITIS on the portal code • Download file 6.4 Next… • Define what /how /who POLI-USP ▪ COE ▪ ITIS ▪ NBII
7. Literature 7.1 Goals • Provide access to literature on pollinators 7.2 Solutions • To be defined: • What will be the sources? • Access to files (full text)? To lists of publications? 7.3 Considerations • How this fits into IABIN tools? 7.4 Next… • Define what /how /who POLI-USP ▪ COE ▪ ITIS ▪ NBII
Data Digitization Tool Needed for moving data from paper to digital form • Adapt INBIO tool (in development for IABIN Species and Specimens Network) • Adapt other existing tool (e.g., Specify?) • Build new tool POLI-USP ▪ COE ▪ ITIS ▪ NBII
EXPERTS POLI-USP ▪ COE ▪ ITIS ▪ NBII
http://pollinators.iabin.net http://pollinators.incubadora.fapesp.br THANK YOU POLI-USP ▪ COE ▪ ITIS ▪ NBII