[Pollinator] USGS Native Bee Species Occurrence Data Now Available

[Sellers, Elizabeth]

*USGS BISON Online Mapping Application (http://bison.usgs.ornl.gov/
<http://bison.usgs.ornl.gov/>) Adds USGS Native Bee Species Occurrence
Data:*
The USGS Biodiversity Information Serving Our Nation (BISON –
http://bison.usgs.ornl.gov/) online mapping application has added just over
two hundred thousand species occurrence records for keystone
pollinators–native bees. This native bee species occurrences dataset from
the USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center’s Native Bee Inventory and
Monitoring Lab (lead by Sam Droege
<http://www.pwrc.usgs.gov/staff/profiles/documents/droege.htm>) is just one
of a series of USGS science center datasets including bird and bat species
occurrence datasets that are currently being processed for public release
and download through BISON. Once included in BISON, they can be integrated
with other prominent species occurrence datasets from sources such as the
United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) PLANTS database, the
Illinois Natural History Survey, the University of Kansas Biodiversity
Institute’s Snow Entomological Museum Collection, and the USDA Agricultural
Research Service’s (ARS) Bee Biology and Systematics Laboratory, among
other participating BISON and GBIF Data Providers
<http://bison.usgs.ornl.gov/#providerTab>. An additional 53 map layers are
also available in the online map viewer; and various Developer Tools
<http://bison.usgs.ornl.gov/doc/index.jsp> and Application Programming
Interface <http://bison.usgs.ornl.gov/doc/services>s (API) or Web Services
capabilities are also available for tool development and more direct access
to the data.

A product of the USGS Core Science Analytics, Synthesis, and Libraries
(CSAS&L) Program, BISON is an information system that allows users to
access, explore, and download U.S. species occurrence data from
participating BISON and GBIF Data Providers
<http://bison.usgs.ornl.gov/#providerTab>. Researchers collect species
occurrence data, records of an organism at a particular time in a
particular place, as a primary or ancillary function of many biological
field investigations. Presently, these data reside in numerous distributed
systems and formats (including publications) and are consequently not being
used to their full potential. As a step toward addressing this challenge,
the USGS is developing BISON as an integrated and permanent resource for
biological occurrence data from the United States. BISON will leverage the
accumulated human infrastructural resources of the long-term USGS
investment in research and information management and delivery. USGS is
also the U.S. Node <http://www.gbif.org/country/US> of the Global
Biodiversity Information Facility <http://www.gbif.org/> (GBIF), an
international, government-initiated and funded effort focused on making
biodiversity data freely available for scientific research, conservation,
and sustainable development. USGS, with its partners at the Department of
Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory <http://www.ornl.gov/> (ORNL), hosts
a full mirror of the hundreds of millions of global records to which GBIF
provides access. BISON was initiated with the 110 million records GBIF
makes available from the U.S. and is integrating millions more records from
other sources each year.

*Please send any comments, questions, errors or bugs encountered to
bison at usgs.gov <bison at usgs.gov>.*

Cheers, Liz

Elizabeth Sellers

Eco-Science Synthesis (ESS)
Core Science Analytics and Synthesis (CSAS)
BISON Data Team; USGS Liaison to the Plant Conservation Alliance
United States Geological Survey (USGS)
12201 Sunrise Valley Drive, Mail Stop 302
Reston, VA 20192  USA
Room 2A231C
703.648.4385  esellers at usgs.gov
<https://mail.google.com/mail/?view=cm&fs=1&tf=1&to=esellers@usgs.gov>

Looking for species occurrence data for the U.S.? Check out:
Biodiversity Information Serving Our Nation (BISON)
http://bison.usgs.ornl.gov/
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