A specimen-level database of the world's bees (Apoidea) at the University of Kansas

堪萨斯大学获得了一笔赠款，用于填充其研究收藏中存在的世界蜜蜂物种的美国级数据库，这是世界上最大和最全面的数据库之一。 该项目将从代表世界所有地区的201，668个蜜蜂标本中采集数据，使数据库的总覆盖率达到约9725个物种的379，071个个体记录，占世界已知多样性的近50%。 每个标本都将在每次采集活动中使用精确的经纬度坐标进行地理参考。 一旦完成，数据将通过互联网免费访问。 蜜蜂是自然和农业生态系统中最重要的传粉者，是生物多样性、全球食物网以及人类健康和安全的基础。 这些数据将随时可用于生态学、保护生物学、植物地理学、生物多样性信息学和资源管理的研究。 此外，这些数据将提供给决策者，并教育公众了解生物多样性和保护问题，以及本地传粉者分布的基本原理。 该项目还将帮助培训下一代生物多样性科学家掌握最新的生物信息学工具和研究收集策展方法和标准。

The University of Kansas has been awarded a grant to populate a specimen-level database of the world's bee species present in their research collection, one of the largest and most comprehensive in the world. The project will capture data from 201,668 specimens of bees representing all regions of the world, bringing the database's total coverage to 379,071 individual records for about 9725 species, or nearly 50% of the world's known diversity. Each specimen will be georeferenced with precise latitude and longitude coordinates for each collecting event. Once completed, the data will be freely accessible over the internet. Bees are the most critical pollinators of both natural and agricultural ecosystems, underpinning the integrity of biodiversity, global food webs, and human health and security. These data will become readily available for research in ecology, conservation biology, biogeography, biodiversity informatics, and resource management. In addition, these data will be available for policy makers and educating the public about biodiversity and conservation issues, as well as the fundamentals of native pollinator distributions. This project will also help train the next generation of biodiversity scientists in the latest bioinformatic tools and research collection curatorial methods and standards.