[Pollinator] Funding the World Bee Catalogue

[bugsrus at yorku.ca]

Greetings

It is good that this application is going ahead.

I think I am correct in saying that the application has to have
matching funds.  Could you please let us know how these will
be obtained, or do you already have such moneys in hand?

Thanks

Laurence


Quoting "Pollination (AGPS)" <Pollination at fao.org>:

> To the "Pollination Practitioner" community: (please post on your relevant
> listserves, or circulate to members of coutnry/regional pollinator
> initiatives):
> 
> > 		As you may be aware, the Global Biodiversity Information
> > Facility (GBIF- www.gbif.org) in June of 2005 prioritized "pollinators" in
> > general, and Apoidea in particular, as one of the cross-cutting focal
> areas
> > to be considered for funding in 2005-2006, for the development of
> > electronic catalogues (the "ECAT" call) , and the Apoidea as a priority
> for
> > seed funding for specimen digitisation (the "DIGIT" call).   They have
> > issued calls for proposals in these two areas.
> > 
> > 		This provides an excellent opportunity for two, related
> > efforts:  the International Pollinators Initiative (IPI), and the UNEP/GEF
> > (United Nations Environment Programme/Global Environment Facility)
> > "Conservation and Management of Pollinators for Sustainable Agriculture,
> > Through an Ecosystem Approach" project (also referred to as the UNEP/GEF
> > Global Pollinators Project, or "GPP"), both coordinated by the Food and
> > Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). The UNEP/GEF Global
> > Pollination Project is made up of national committees in seven developing
> > countries, who serve as a committed user group, seeking to extend the
> > knowledge base on pollination and use it to conserve and manage natural
> > pollination services. Several other regional pollinator initiatives
> include
> > both data owners and data users. 
> > 
> > 		It is therefore proposed to coordinate a proposal to GBIF on
> > the development of an electronic catalogue of the Apoidea, to be generated
> > by those taxonomists holding the relevant information, and to be designed
> > with and for the user community, of pollination practitioners.  
> > 
> > 		We have been asking the bee taxonomy community to respond
> > with information on the current status of catalogues in different regions
> > and of different Apoidea taxa, that can form the basis for a World Bee
> > Catalogue.  The response has been very favorable; many people wish to
> > contribute to a joint catalogue.
> > 
> > 		We'd like to ask the opinion as well of the pollination
> > "practitioner" community:  aside from taxonomic fields as required by
> GBIF,
> > what are other  desirable fields from a pollination management
> perspective?
> > (Many of these may be difficult to obtain, particularly with limited
> > funding, and thus would not be "obligatory" information for people or
> > groups contributing data to the catalogue).  
> > 
> > 		A possible list of "desirable" fields might be:
> > 
> > 				Floral associates
> > 				Nesting behaviour
> > 				Host or parasite relations
> > 				Distributions (at least by country?)
> > 				Body length
> > 				Inter-tegular distance
> > 				Nesting habit {miner; pre-existing cavity -
> > ground; pre-existing 
> > 					cavity- above ground; cleptoparasite}
> > 				Sociality {eusocial; primitively eusocial;
> > subsocial; communal; 
> > 					solitary; cleptoparasitic; varies
> > with locality] 
> > 				Forage/dispersal range 
> > 				Start of flight season {month} 
> > 				End of flight season {month} 
> > 				Voltinism {univoltine; bivoltine;
> > multivoltine; variable} 
> > 				Fecundity {avg number of offspring per
> > female} 
> > 				Adult survival {avg annual survival rate of
> > adults] 
> > 				Larval survival [avg annual survival rate of
> > larvae}
> > 
> > 				Literature citations
> > 
> > 		We look forward to hearing your views on this matter.
> > 
> > 		with best regards,
> > 
> > 		Linda Collette 
> > 		Senior Crop Biodiversity Officer and Focal Point for
> > International Pollinator Initiative matters at FAO
> > 		Barbara Gemmill (Herren) 
> > 		Global Pollination Project Coordinator
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