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 any associated PENs, currently funded by the Advancing Digitization of Biodiversity Collections (ADBC) project:

Award Year 2011

(TCN) InvertNet: An Integrative Platform for Research on Environmental Change, Species Discovery and Identification

• (PEN) Digitizing the University of Iowa Museum of Natural History's Historic Invertebrate Collections through the InvertNet TCN

(TCN) Plants, Herbivores, and Parasitoids: A Model System for the Study of Tri-trophic Associations

(TCN) North American Lichens and Bryophytes - Sensitive Indicators of Environmental Quality and Change

• (PEN) Digitization of North American Bryophyte and Lichen Specimens from Florida Herbaria
• (PEN) Addressing Colorado Lichens and Bryophytes as Sensitive Indicators of Environmental Quality and Change
• (PEN) Digitization of two Important Medium-sized Collections to Join the North American Bryophytes and Lichens TCN
• (PEN) Digitization of North American Bryophyte and Lichen Specimens from Two Ohio Herbaria at the University of Cincinnati (CINC)

Award Year 2012

(TCN) Mobilizing New England Vascular Plant Data to Track Environmental Changes

(TCN) Digitizing Fossils to Enable New Syntheses in Biogeography- Creating a PALEONICHES

• (PEN) Targeted Digitization to Expand and Enhance the PALEONICHES TCN
• (PEN) Increasing the Robustness of the Ordovician and Pennsylvanian Dataset of PALEONICHES-TCN

(TCN) The Macrofungi Collection Consortium: Unlocking a Biodiversity for Understanding Biotec Interactions, Nutrient Cycling and Human Affairs

• (PEN) Partnership to Existing Macrofungi Collection Consortium--Digitization of an Important Regional Collection of Macrofungi at the Pringle Herbarium

(TCN) Southwest Collections of Arthropods Network (SCAN): A Model for Collections Digitization to Promote Taxonomic and Ecological Research

• (PEN) Facilitating a Shared Image Library and Occurrence Database for Ants of the Southwest as Part of the SCAN TCN
• (PEN) Ground-dwelling Insects in the Brigham Young University Collection, Enhancement to SCAN

Award Year 2013

(TCN) Fossil Insect Collaborative: A Deep-Time Approach to Studying Diversification and Response to Environmental Change

(TCN) Developing a Centralized Digital Archive of Vouchered Animal Communication Signals

(TCN) The Macroalgal Herbarium Consortium: Accessing 150 Years of Specimen Data to Understand Changes in the Marine/Aquatic Environment

Award Year 2014

(TCN) Documenting the Occurrence through Space and Time of Aquatic Non-indigenous Fish, Mollusks, Algae, and Plants Threatening North America's Great Lakes

(TCN) InvertEBase: Reaching Back to See the Future: Species-rich Invertebrate Faunas Document Causes and Consequences of Biodiversity Shifts

(TCN) The Key to the Cabinets: Building and Sustaining a Research Database for a Global Biodiversity Hotspot