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The IABIN Pollinators
Thematic Network
5th 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.
• $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
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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
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Scientific and
common names
Experts
Specimens and
observations
Pollinator-plant
associations
Literature
PTN Data Standards
• Use existing
standards
• Seek interoperability
PTN Activities and
Work 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
Taxonomic
Research/Science
Regulation
Monitoring
Legislation / Policy
Industry / Industrial
Ecological
Conservation
Botanical
Apicultural
Agricultural
0%
2%
4%
6%
8%
10%
12%
14%
16%
18%
20%
Geographic Expertise
Argentina
Bahamas
Belize
Bolivia
Brazil
Canada
Chile
Colombia
Costa Rica
Cuba
Ecuador
El Salvador
French Guiana
Guatemala
Guyana
Haiti
Honduras
Jamaica
Mexico
Nicaragua
Panama
Paraguay
Peru
Suriname
United States
Uruguay
Venezuela
0
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10
15
20
25
30
35
Most Desired Content
Taxonomies / taxonomic trees
Specimen collections
Species profiles / fact sheets
Species lists
Species identification keys / guides
Publication collections
Pollinator-plant association data
Point data / field observations
Pesticide use / affects / guidelines
Maps (static species / habitat)
Maps (interactive species / habitat)
Management plans (pollinators)
Management plans (habitats)
Lists or registries of experts
GIS shape files / georeferenced data
Bibliographies
0%
2%
4%
6%
8%
10%
12%
Information Most Needed (Issues)
Pollinator services
Agricultural effects
Pesticide effects
Introduced species effects
Plant-pollinator associations
Plant distribution
Population ecology
Population census data
Pollinator habitats
Pollinator distribution
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5
10
15
20
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
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Specimens in major collections
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Pollinator experts
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Pollinator-plant associations
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Literature on pollinators
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Other data as available (e.g., geographic, genetic)
Global checklists of bees, hummingbirds, bats,
and other important pollinating species
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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)
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> 500, 000 specimen records readily available for internet access
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Draft list of more than 150 pollinator experts
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Plant pollinator association data available in several databases
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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)
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> 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
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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
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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
Experts
Database
Tapir/Digir
DwC
IABIN
specimen
data host
Plant-pollinator
relationship
Experts DB
Checklist of
collections/
pollinating
species
Literature
Tapir/Digir
?schema?
IABIN – SSTN
WebBee
Tapir/Digir
DwC
IABIN-SSTN
WebBee
SpeciesLink
SpeciesLink
Species Data
Providers
GBIF
IABIN – PTN
Specimen data
providers
GBIF
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
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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:
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Identification of individual specimens
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Construct species list for a specific region
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Search for information on the animal pollinators of a
specific plant
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Search for information on pollinator experts
PTN Use Cases
Other Use Cases (based on survey results):
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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:
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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
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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
http://pollinators.iabin.net
THANK YOU
GRACIAS
OBRIGADO
MERCI
DANK U