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

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> 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.

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INSECTS Bees

Beetles Butterflies Crickets Flies Midges Mosquitoes Moths Wasps • • • • •

REPTILES

Geckos Skinks Anoles Lacertidae Tegus and Whiptails

Kinds of Pollinators

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

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Use existing standards

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Seek interoperability

PTN Activities and Work Plan

PTN Activities

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Activities began in Jul ‘06

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Joint IABIN/GBIF Workshop in Dec ‘06

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Communication

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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

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Information needs assessment

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Partnerships

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Coordination

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Network architecture and standards

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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 5 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 0 5 10 15 20

PARTNERSHIPS

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North American Pollinator Protection Campaign

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Brazilian Pollinator Initiative

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GBIF

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IPI: CBD & FAO

COORDINATION

Goal Scope Primary Content Uses of Data Currently Available Data Location of Data IABIN

Electronic pollinator information network for the Americas

GBIF

Facilitate availability of primary taxonomic content data for world’s pollinators and provide to global Pollinator Information Management System World Western Hemisphere 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) 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 Global checklists of bees, hummingbirds, bats,  and other important pollinating species Specimen and observation data from major collections and monitoring programs Scientists, resource managers, policy makers, students, farmers, public, others 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) Scientists, resource managers, policy makers, students, farmers, public, others Complete checklists for world bees (draft), hummingbirds, and bats (ca. 20,000 valid  names) > 500, 000 specimen records readily available for internet access 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 Images, genetics, environmental, pollinator parasites

Future Data Needs Resources Partnerships

IABIN: 180K (06-08); IABIN content: 240K (07-08); U.S., Brazil, Mexico, Canada, Colombia governments; Bilateral agreements NGO’s, Industry, Institutions, etc., GBIF Campaign (potential): 175K Euro (07); European Commission Framework (?); GBIF Participants (?); FAO (?) NGO’s, Industry, Institutions, etc.,

PTN ARCHITECTURE AND STANDARDS

PTN Architecture and Protocols

IABIN specimen data host Specimens in Collections Tapir/Digir DwC Tapir/Digir DwC Experts Database IABIN PTN Portal Plant-pollinator relationship Experts DB Tapir/Digir ?schema?

Checklist of collections/ pollinating species Literature IABIN – SSTN IABIN-SSTN WebBee WebBee SpeciesLink SpeciesLink Species Data Providers GBIF GBIF IABIN – PTN Specimen data providers

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

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Data owner = data provider

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If necessary: PTN may host data

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Not on a permanent basis

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Build local capacity to host data in the future

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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

• > 100 identified

Experts

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

http://pollinators.iabin.net

THANK YOU GRACIAS OBRIGADO MERCI DANK U