TCNs
Each Thematic Collections Network (TCN) is a network of institutions with a strategy for digitizing information that addresses a particular research theme, such as impacts of climate change or biota of a region. Once digitized, data are easily accessed and available for other research and educational use. Other institutions and collections may join an existing TCN as a Partner to Existing Network (PEN). The following are the TCNs and PENs currently funded by the Advancing Digitization of Biodiversity Collections (ADBC) project:
Current Thematic Collection Networks (TCNs) funded through the National Science Foundation's Advancing Digitization of Biodiversity Collections (ADBC) Program
InvertNet: An Integrative Platform for Research on Environmental Change, Species Discovery and Identification
Primary Institution: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Website: http://invertnet.org/
North American Lichens and Bryophytes - Sensitive Indicators of Environmental Quality and Change
Primary Institution: University of Wisconsin-Madison
Websites:http://lbcc.limnology.wisc.edu/
Data Portals: http://lichenportal.org, http://bryophyteportal.org
Plants, Herbivores, and Parasitoids: A Model System for the Study of Tri-trophic Associations
Primary Institution: American Museum of Natural History
Website: http://tcn.amnh.org/
Digitizing Fossils to Enable New Syntheses in Biogeography- Creating a PALEONICHES
Primary Institution: University of Kansas
The Macrofungi Collection Consortium: Unlocking a Biodiversity for Understanding Biotec Interactions, Nutrient Cycling and Human Affairs
Primary Institution: New York Botanical Garden
Website: http://www.nybg.org/science/new_20120723.php
Mobilizing New England Vascular Plant Data to Track Environmental Changes
Primary Institution: Yale University
Southwest Collections of Arthropods Network (SCAN): A Model for Collections Digitization to Promote Taxonomic and Ecological Research
Primary Institution: Northern Arizona University
Data Portal: http://symbiota1.acis.ufl.edu/scan/portal/index.php
Project Website: http://scan1.acis.ufl.edu/
Current Partner to Existing Networks (PENs) funded through the National Science Foundation's Advancing Digitization of Biodiversity Collections (ADBC) Program
Digitization of North American Bryophyte and Lichen Specimens from Florida Herbaria
Primary Institution: University of Florida, Florida Museum of Natural History
Website: http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/herbarium/research.htm
Addressing Colorado Lichens and Bryophytes as Sensitive Indicators of Environmental Quality and Change
Primary Institution: University of Colorado at Boulder