Biological records of potentially host plants of mexican wild bees identified from iNaturalist

Occurrence Observation
Latest version published by Comisión nacional para el conocimiento y uso de la biodiversidad on Oct 18, 2023 Comisión nacional para el conocimiento y uso de la biodiversidad

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Description

Biological records of potential host plants of Mexican wild bees identified from Naturalista (Mexican iNaturalist Node) observations. This is an interinstitutional effort that was carried out for the taxonomic curation and mobilization of plant observations compiled in the project “Xicotli Data: Native Bees and their Flowers”. Plant observations were obtained from bee photographs available in Naturalista. (https://www.naturalista.mx/projects/xicotli-data-abejas-mexicanas-y-sus-flores). The project and the resultant dataset of biological records of plants seek to maximize the use of the observations in Naturalista. Thus, it is expected to contribute to the documentation of native plant-bee interactions. This dataset is made up of a metadata and three tables: 1) occurrences; 2) ecomorphological attributes (see details here), and 3) type of interaction bee – plant (see details here). Taxonomic determination of plants from photographs is a great challenge. However, the plant taxonomists carried out the curation by mean of their expert knowledge and by consulting specialized literature (i.e., taxonomic descriptions and catalogues). They also compared the plants from the photograph with specimens of two Mexican herbaria: IEB-“Graciela Calderón and Jerzy Rzedowski ” (http://inecolbajio.com/index.php#) and MEXU-UNAM (http://www.ib.unam.mx/botanica/herbario/), applying a very conservative protocol that guarantees the greatest possible veracity of the taxonomic determinations. This dataset was generated within the framework of the project “Integration of biodiversity data of wild bee-plant interactions in Mexico” (https://www.gbif.org/es/project/BID-CA2020-021-NAC/integration-of-biodiversity-data-of-wild-bee-plant-interactions-in-mexico). The original Naturalista data can be consulted on the following resources: https://www.gbif.org/occurrence/download/0194949-230224095556074 and https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7892227

Data Records

The data in this occurrence 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 4,532 records.

2 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.

Occurrence (core)
4532
MeasurementOrFacts 
5846
ResourceRelationship 
4532

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

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How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Bedolla García B Y, Madrigal González D, Mérida J, González-Vanegas P A, Barrios J M, Cultid-Medina C A (2022): Registros biológicos de plantas potencialmente nutricias de abejas nativas mexicanas identificadas a partir de observaciones de Naturalista.

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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: e1e1e05e-a239-49aa-9e10-94b81cf63b7f.  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

Occurrence; Observation; Occurrence

Contacts

Juan M Barrios
  • Metadata Provider
  • Originator
  • Point Of Contact
  • Investigador
CONABIO
  • Liga Periférico - Insurgentes Sur 4903 Parques del Pedregal
14010 Tlalpan
CDMX
MX
Carlos Andres Cultid-Medina
  • Originator
  • Point Of Contact
  • Investigador
CONACYT-INECOL. Centro Regional del Bajío
  • Lazaro Cárdenas 253, Col. Centro
61608 Pátzcuaro
Michoacán
MX
Jorge Mérida
  • Originator
  • Estudiante de doctorado, curador de la Colección de Abejas Ecosur (ECOAB)
ECOSUR
  • Carretera Panamericana y Periférico Sur S/N, Barrio de María Auxiliadora
29290 San Cristobal de las Casas
Chiapas
MX
Paola Andrea González-Vanegas
  • Originator
  • Profesional en entomología
Brenda Yudith Bedolla García
  • Originator
  • Point Of Contact
  • Técnico titular
INECOL. Centro Regional del Bajío
  • Lazaro Cárdenas 253, Col. Centro
61608 Pátzcuaro
Michoacán
MX
Daniel Madrigal González
Raúl Sierra-Alcocer
  • Point Of Contact
  • Coordinador de Ecoinformática
CONABIO
  • Liga Periférico - Insurgentes Sur 4903 Parques del Pedregal
14010 Tlalpan
CDMX
MX
Pilar Rodríguez
Juan Carlos López-Enriquez
  • Programmer
  • Desarrollador

Geographic Coverage

Mexico

Bounding Coordinates South West [14.906, -118.289], North East [32.649, -86.714]

Taxonomic Coverage

No Description available

Family Asphodelaceae, Rosaceae, Euphorbiaceae, Onagraceae, Asteraceae, Solanaceae, Lamiaceae, Passifloraceae, Moringaceae, Brassicaceae, Oxalidaceae, Verbenaceae, Lythraceae, Namaceae, Pontederiaceae, Rutaceae, Cactaceae, Fabaceae, Acanthaceae, Araceae, Musaceae, Crassulaceae, Polygonaceae, Scrophulariaceae, Amaryllidaceae, Iridaceae, Nyctaginaceae, Cucurbitaceae, Bixaceae, Bignoniaceae, Malvaceae, Begoniaceae, Rubiaceae, Convolvulaceae, Apiaceae, Polemoniaceae, Poaceae, Apocynaceae, Cannaceae, Plantaginaceae, Ericaceae, Polygalaceae, Sapindaceae, Malpighiaceae, Portulacaceae, Aizoaceae, Phytolaccaceae, Hydrophyllaceae, Plumbaginaceae, Meliaceae, Tropaeolaceae, Papaveraceae, Balsaminaceae, Commelinaceae, Asparagaceae, Myrtaceae, Strelitziaceae, Orchidaceae, Zygophyllaceae, Gesneriaceae, Cordiaceae, Campanulaceae, Amaranthaceae, Heliconiaceae, Boraginaceae, Melastomataceae, Nymphaeaceae

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 2003-08-24 / 2022-08-11

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). This project aims to mobilize and integrate information about the interactions between Mexican wild bees and host plants (wild and cultivated) by: * proposing a data model for the monitoring of these interactions through the national (SNIB) and international (GBIF) platforms, maximizing the use of the available fields in the DarwinCore and GBIF extensions, * promoting the registration and collective verification (taxonomic and ecological) of the wild bee-plant interactions, * consolidating a rigorous and dynamic source of information for the study, management, and conservation of pollination, and * transferring the information between at least five institutions in the federal, academic and agricultural spheres.

Title Integration of biodiversity data of wild bee-plant interactions in Mexico
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:

Juan M Barrios
  • Author
Raúl Sierra-Alcocer
Paola Andrea González-Vanegas
Carlos Andres Cultid-Medina
Ramón Rivera-Camacho
  • Author
Brenda Yudith Bedolla García
Daniel Madrigal González
Andrés Lira-Noriega

Additional Metadata

Alternative Identifiers e1e1e05e-a239-49aa-9e10-94b81cf63b7f
https://www.snib.mx/iptconabio/resource?r=xicotlidata-inat