The IABIN PTN is coordinated by a consortium of organizations from throughout the western hemisphere, which is lead by the Coevolution Institute.

The Pollinator Partnership (P2)
(Administrative Lead)

The Pollinator Partnership (P2) is the administrative lead for the IABIN Pollinators Thematic Network and works with others to contribute management, communication, information technology and scientific expertise. The Pollinator Partnership (P2) is the D.B.A. for the 501(c)3 non-profit Coevolution Institute, founded in 1997. P2 works to protect the health of managed and native pollinating animals vital to our North American ecosystems and agriculture. P2 (www.pollinator.org) is a premiere source of information for consumers, gardeners, land managers, educators, resource managers, producers, and farmers to help pollinators, essential components for all of life. As one of it's many projects, P2 manages the North American Pollinator Protection Campaign (NAPPC) a collaborative, international group of over 120 organizations and individuals that promote and implement a continent-wide Action Plan to encourage activities to protect the numbers and health of all pollinating animals. P2 is also currently building the Pollinator Conservation Digital Library (PCDL) an open-source software, relational database for scientists, policy makers, agriculture and the general public.

University of São Paulo / Universidade de São Paulo

The laboratories of Dr. Antonio Mauro Saraiva (Laboratory of Agricultural Automation, Polytechnic School) and of Dr. Vera Fonseca (Laboratory of Bees, Institute of Biosciences) are based at the University of Sao Paulo. They have collaborated to build WebBee, a network of information on the biodiversity of Brazilian bees. It integrates information on the biology of bees and their text, images and videos. It provides a single platform of Internet software for researchers and specialists to share digital content and provide materials for long distance education.

Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

The Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) was established in the mid-1990s as a cooperative project among several US federal agencies to improve upon and expand taxonomic data and information. Today, ITIS partners and cooperators are wide-ranging and include the U.S. Geological Survey, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Natural Resources Conservation Service, the Agricultural Research Service, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the National Park Service, the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History, Agriculture and Ag Food Canada, Conabio (Mexico), CRIA (Brazil), Species 2000, and the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, among others. Through the cooperation of partner agencies and contributing scientists, ITIS provides a nomenclatural standard of accepted scientific names that can be used as a common vocabulary that links biological information from a variety of disciplines. ITIS and Species 2000 cooperate to annually produce the Catalogue of Life, a checklist and index of the world’s species. Their goal is to complete the global checklist of 1.8 million species by 2001.

National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII)

The National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII) is a broad-based, collaborative program among US federal, state, international, non-government, academic and private industry partners. It provides a wide variety of tools and references to facilitate creation of and access to biological information on the Web. NBII also provides several biological information and technology training courses, has data sharing agreements in place with several US and international government and non governmental organizations, and has over 10 years experience in building large scale distributed biological information networks. NBII currently hosts the IABIN Invasives Information Network web site (an IABIN Thematic Network) and is developing its own pollinator web site in collaboration with such organizations as the Ecological Society of America (ESA). NBII is also serving as the Coordinating Institution (CI) for the IABIN I3N Thematic Network. This effort, as other IABIN efforts, relies heavily on NBII’s infrastructure and significant information/geospatial expertise.