Description
This dataset includes 2,757 bee taxa from Mexico and Mesoamerica from the database of the Bee Collection of El Colegio de la Frontera Sur, San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico (ECOAB). The bees were determined at the species, genus, or morphospecies level designated by ECOAB. Each taxon was assigned ecomorphological traits: body size, nesting site, sociality, and body structure for pollen transport. For size, smaller, same size, and larger categories were assigned with respect size of Apis mellifera (approx. 10 mm) as a model. To describe nesting habits, the categories underground and aboveground were used for taxa nesting below ground and above ground respectively (regardless of substrate or nesting form). Social, solitary, and parasitic categories were used to describe sociality based on Danforth et al. 2019. Pollen transport structure categories were Scopa, Corbicula, and No pollen collector. In the case of the scopa, its location was specified: leg, referring to the hind leg; ventral, referring to the metasomal sternites, and propodeal. The information assigned to the taxa came from bibliographic searches, observations of specimens, and previous field observations.
Data Records
The data in this checklist resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 2,757 records.
1 extension data tables also exist. An extension record supplies extra information about a core record. The number of records in each extension data table is illustrated below.
This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.
Versions
The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is Comisión nacional para el conocimiento y uso de la biodiversidad. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 92eee794-bba6-41e5-980e-70d6a386a163. Comisión nacional para el conocimiento y uso de la biodiversidad publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Biodiversity Information System of Mexico.
Keywords
Checklist; Inventorythematic
Contacts
- Originator
- Associated Researcher - Curator
- Carretera Panamericana y Periférico Sur S/N, Barrio de María Auxiliadora
- Originator
- Curator
- Carretera Panamericana y Periférico Sur S/N, Barrio de María Auxiliadora
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0833-4801
- Originator
- Curator
- Liga Periférico - Insurgentes Sur 4903, Parques del Pedregal
- 5550045000
- Originator
- Researcher
- Carretera Panamericana y Periférico Sur S/N, Barrio de María Auxiliadora
- Originator ●
- Point Of Contact
- Researcher
- Lazaro Cárdenas 253, Col. Centro.
- Metadata Provider
- Researcher
- Liga Periférico - Insurgentes Sur 4903, Parques del Pedregal
- 5550045000
- Programmer
- Reasearcher
- Liga Periférico - Insurgentes Sur 4903, Parques del Pedregal
- 5550045000
Geographic Coverage
Mexico and Central America
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [7.221, -118.454], North East [31.333, -77.327] |
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Project Data
Mexico’s National Biodiversity Information System (SNIB) identifies 1,740 species of wild bees. While 95 per cent of those have geographic records and other relevant information, ecological data about interacting plants are scarce and fragmented. Increasing our knowledge about their role as pollinators is crucial to maintaining ecosystem functions and the sustainability of many crops (e.g., chile, tomato, coffee, avocado).
| Title | Integration of biodiversity data of wild bee-plant interactions in Mexico |
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| Identifier | BID-CA2020-021-NAC |
| Funding | This project was founded by the European Union, GBIF as part BID: Biodiversity Information for Development project. |
The personnel involved in the project:
- Author
Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | 92eee794-bba6-41e5-980e-70d6a386a163 |
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| https://www.snib.mx/iptconabio/resource?r=mesoamerica-wild-bees |