WebBee

WebBeeWebBeeA Brazilian information network on bees.

Antonio Mauro Saraiva

Universidade de São Paulo

CODATA Workshop – 8-10 May 2007

Atibaia - Brazil

About Pollinators

• > 80% of flowering plants are pollinated by animals.

• > 1/3 of the world's major food crops.

• $200 Billion 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.

Initially: a web-based monitoring system

• Focus on automatic data acquisition

Colony monitoring network

• Temperature, Humidity

• Flight activity– Bee counter

• thermoregulation

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A step ahead: an information system

• Knowledge and information on bees need to be– organized, preserved, shared, published(!)

• Target audience– scientists, beekeepers, students, teachers, policy makers,

agricultural producers…• Increase public awareness on the importance and uses of pollinators

– in Portuguese and other languages

WebBee: information system

• Contents:• Bee species data: biology, taxonomy, distribution,

• Hives, equipment & numerical data

• Beekeeping, plants visited

• Bibliography

– Dynamic web pages: database– Multimedia: texts, images, videos

• Web–based: easy access and sharing

Database – Species catalog

WebBee

•images and texts

Database – Weather station (at IB – USP, São Paulo)

WebBee

graphics and table

Database of Bibliography

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Documents: description and (some) files

WebBee - a network

• Groups cooperate on providing data – Species information– Experimental data / weather stations– By region, taxon…

• Distributed Effort• Intellectual property

– authorship– neutral domain: www.webbee.org.br

WeB Bee

Participants:

BeeLab – Instituto de Biociências da USP

Agricultural Automation Lab – Escola Politécnica - USP

Embrapa Amazônia Oriental

Labe - Empresa Baiana de Desenvolvimento Agrícola – EBDA

Universidade Est. de Feira de Santana - UEFS

WeB Bee

Status

• Centralized database

• Remote data-entry tool

• Other features: – plants visited (names, images)– pollen characteristics

Brazilian Pollinators Initiative (BPI) website

• events

• publications

• timeline

• activities

Other features

• tribute to important Brazilian scientists – Web pages for

• Dr. Jesus S. Moure, • Dr. Paulo Nogueira Neto• Dr. Warwick E. Kerr,

– have already been / are being developed.

• Individual contributions• Dr. Rodrigo Singer

– Bees and orchids

• Dr. Anthony Raw– megachilidae

Virtual network center of ecosystem services

• Research consortium– Escola Politécnica & Instituto de Biociências (USP),

– Instituto de Botânica

– University of California, S. Diego

• Objectives– Develop WebLabs on two ecosystem services

• Pollination

• Photosynthesis

• Research / Education / Awareness raising

• Use / develop content / applications for the Advanced Internet

• Database– high resolution images (several Mpixels)

High resolution images of beesHigh resolution images of bees

Instead of this image

• It may replace the real specimen • which is usually sent by mail for comparison

High resolution images for identification and classification

High resolution images for identification and classification

Use of Video via Internet on R&Eon Pollination

Objectives:• Research

– Allow remote access to field or lab experiments

– Facilitate collaboration between researchers

– Use an Advanced Internet for real-time video streaming: HD video

• Education / training / decision making– Make available materials on biology/ keeping of bees

– Reach wider audience

– “commodity” Internet – SD videos

Database - VideoDatabase - Video• Research and educational videos

– SD video (640x480) • easy access via Internet

– behavioral patterns of each species.

– students, researchers and beekeepers can recognize bee species

Behavior at the bee hive entrance (Melipona crinita)

The IABIN Pollinators Thematic Network

InterAmerican Biodiversity Information Network

PTN Vision

A Pollinators Thematic Network for the

Americas

which will facilitate integration of

information about pollinators

in an efficient retrieval system

IABIN - PTN

• Co-Evolution Institute• Universidade de Sao Paulo• ITIS - Integrated Taxonomic Information System

• NBII - National Biological Information Infrastructure

• CRIA - Centro de Referência em Informação Ambiental

PTN System Content

• Scientific and common names

• Experts

• Specimens and observations

• Pollinator-plant associations

• Literature

PTN Architecture

IABIN PTN Portal

Specimens in Collections

Tapir/DigirDwC

GBIF

SpeciesLink

IABIN – PTNSpecimen data

providers

IABIN – SSTN

IABIN specimen data host

Plant-pollinator relationship

SpeciesLink

IABIN-SSTN

GBIF

Tapir/Digir?schema?

WebBee

Species DataProviders

Checklist of collections/pollinating

species

LiteratureExperts

Database

Experts DB

Tapir/DigirDwC

WebBee

PTN Group Portal

pollinators.incubadora.fapesp.br

Thank you !

Visit us at:

http://www.webbee.org.br

(Originally a) HD video