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Pollinators Network for the Americas: Biodiversity and Conservation

Join us in Bratislava to discuss the vital role of pollinators in global agriculture and biodiversity. Explore data integration and exchange protocols to support pollinator research and conservation efforts.

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Pollinators Network for the Americas: Biodiversity and Conservation

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  1. 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

  2. Antonio Saraiva Pedro Pizzigatti Etienne Cartolano Pablo Salvanha Michael Ruggiero Laurie Adams Elizabeth Sellers Dan Phillips PTN Team POLI-USP ▪ COE ▪ ITIS ▪ NBII

  3. 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

  4. “First, give your bees a settled safe abode…” Virgil, Georgics IV, 29 B.C.E. POLI-USP ▪ COE ▪ ITIS ▪ NBII

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. 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

  9. PTN Work Plan • Information needs assessment • Gap analysis of content • Network architecture and standards POLI-USP ▪ COE ▪ ITIS ▪ NBII

  10. Information Needs Assessment INFORMATION NEEDS ASSESSMENT POLI-USP ▪ COE ▪ ITIS ▪ NBII

  11. Respondents Interest or Experience POLI-USP ▪ COE ▪ ITIS ▪ NBII

  12. Information Most Needed (Issues) POLI-USP ▪ COE ▪ ITIS ▪ NBII

  13. Most Desired Content POLI-USP ▪ COE ▪ ITIS ▪ NBII

  14. Geographic Expertise POLI-USP ▪ COE ▪ ITIS ▪ NBII

  15. PTN USE CASES POLI-USP ▪ COE ▪ ITIS ▪ NBII

  16. 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

  17. GAP ANALYSIS OF CONTENT POLI-USP ▪ COE ▪ ITIS ▪ NBII

  18. PTN System Content • Scientific and common names • Experts • Specimens and observations • Pollinator-plant associations • Literature POLI-USP ▪ COE ▪ ITIS ▪ NBII

  19. Scientific and Common Names • 10,000 bees • 5,000 completed • 500 hummingbirds • Complete • 300 bats • Complete POLI-USP ▪ COE ▪ ITIS ▪ NBII

  20. 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

  21. Experts • > 100 identified POLI-USP ▪ COE ▪ ITIS ▪ NBII

  22. IABIN-PTN Architecture and Infrastructure Project status POLI-USP ▪ COE ▪ ITIS ▪ NBII

  23. 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

  24. 1. IABIN-PTN Architecture POLI-USP ▪ COE ▪ ITIS ▪ NBII

  25. 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

  26. 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

  27. 2. IABIN-PTN Portal 2.4 Results – IABIN-PTN Portal Layout POLI-USP ▪ COE ▪ ITIS ▪ NBII

  28. 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

  29. 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

  30. 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

  31. 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

  32. 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

  33. 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

  34. 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

  35. 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

  36. 5. Plant-Pollinator Relationship 5.4 Results – Relationship Search Tool Layout POLI-USP ▪ COE ▪ ITIS ▪ NBII

  37. 5. Plant-Pollinator Relationship 5.4 Results – Relationship Search Tool Layout – (Relationship Data) POLI-USP ▪ COE ▪ ITIS ▪ NBII

  38. 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

  39. 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

  40. 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

  41. 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

  42. EXPERTS POLI-USP ▪ COE ▪ ITIS ▪ NBII

  43. http://pollinators.iabin.net http://pollinators.incubadora.fapesp.br THANK YOU POLI-USP ▪ COE ▪ ITIS ▪ NBII

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