1. Comisión Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad Session 3: "Sharing e-knowledge on agricultural diversity worldwide“ TDWG 2009 – Montpellier, November 2009 Patricia Koleff, Cecilio Mota, Oswaldo Oliveros, Francisca Acevedo, Claudia Sánchez, Israel Martínez

2. Contents 1. Knowledge applications for decision making for decision making 1. Biotica 2. Lessons learned

4. Mission National Commission for the Knowledge Use of Biodiversity - MEXICO

5. Genes Species / Populations Communities/ Ecosystems Landscape/ Region Culture CompositionStructureFunction

6. Specimen data bases* Species information Catalogues and authority files Satellite images Electronic cartography Vegetation data Climate Infrastructure, Cities, etc. Statistical, analytical and modelling tools, bioinformatic developments National and international expert networks SNIB MAIN FEATURES: Data quality control Constantly updated Information from projects supported by CONABIO, data repatriation and experts´ collaboration Also info from literature and field work

7. SNIB: Specimen records Invertebrados Plantas Vertebrados Bacterias, virus, algas y hongos 2,899,107 records shown (90% of the total) Specimens collected between 1730 and 2008 Total: 740 databases,

8. Data quality control for specimen databases

9. Genes Regions Country Planet Ecosystems Species Corridors Áreas of distribution of agaves are identified for the Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) of “Mezcales”

10. Mangroves Cloudforest Genes Regions Country Planet Ecosystems Species Corridors 770,000 ha

11. Genes Regions Country Planet Ecosystems Species Corridors www.conabio.gob.mx/incendios Central America Europe: EFFIS http://effis.jrc.ec.europa.eu/ South America -Argentina (INTA)

12. Genes Regions Country Planet Ecosystems Species Corridors Risk Analysis (RA) Genetically Modified Organisms Information System (SIOVM) 1,854 From 2000 to 2009: 1,854 recommendations (case by case) Agriculture and Environment Ministries SIOVM contains 602 additional fields to compile information needed for the RA

13. Specially designed by CONABIO to manage curatorial, nomenclatural, geographical, reference and ecological data. The main objective is to help entering and updating data. Developed with a modular approach, both in the data base structure and in the system. Information System Biótica© http://www.conabio.gob.mx/biotica/cms/index.php

15. InstitutionCode CollectionCode CatalogNumber DateLastModified BasisOfRecord Remarks IdentificationQualifier EarliestDateCollected LatestDateCollected Collector Sex LifeStage ImageURL DayOfYear Collector Disposition IndividualCount DarwinCore IdentifiedBy DateIdentified CollectorNumber FieldNumber Preparations TypeStatus Country StateProvince Locality MinimumElevationInMeters MaximumElevationInMeters MinimumDepthInMeters MaximumDepthInMeters DecimalLatitude DecimalLongitude GeodeticDatum VerbatimCoordinates VerbatimCoordinateSystem GeoreferenceProtocol GeoreferenceSources GeoreferenceRemarks ScientificName HigherTaxon Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Genus SpecificEpithet InfraspecificRank InfraspecificEpithet AuthorYearOfScientificName IdentificationQualifier ImageURL RelatedInformation

16. Seeds collection

17. TablesFields Biotica 1.0 (1995)37 60 (or more) Biotica 5.0 (2009) Including Collection Module (CM) 90 105 716 866 Including Germoplasm Module (GM) 112937 Including CM and GM1271,087 Including CM, GM and additional qualitative and quantitative maize data* 1391,138 * IPGRI/FAO

18. Biótica© adapted for data on Maize and its wild relatives Foto: Carmen Loyola

19. Biótica© nomenclatural data for races of maize Foto: Rafael Ortega Paczka

20. Biótica© nomenclatural data for wild relatives Foto: Carmen Loyola Foto: Juan Manuel Martínez

22. Foto: Alejandro Ortega Coronar

23. Since 2006 CONABIO coordinates 10 projects that are developing databases, one is computerizing the access to information from national collections of maize and its wild relatives, and 9 are gathering new data from the field. Number of records added to date: 14,395 maize ( 59 maize landraces ) 249 teocintle ( Zea spp. ) 116 Tripsacum Foto: Ricardo M. Garibay Supported by SEMARNAT, SAGARPA and CIBOGEM / $15’000 000 MX Information about projects: FX004, FY001, FY002, FZ001, FZ002, FZ003, FZ007, FZ011, FZ014, FZ015, FZ016, FZ018, FZ019 http://www.conabio.gob.mx/institucion/proyectos/doctos/proyectosapoyados.html

25. Tuxpeño intra-racial variation - We documented a greater variation for Tuxpeño race, the main germoplasm source for improving maize in tropical areas of the world. In Mexico, this race is used by the rural farmers in the tropical areas, but it is also adapted to seasonal rain and more extreme climates. - Map shows local and regional exchange of seeds (10 -20 km) and maximum documented distances (30 km) to spread pollen. Trade areas are not illustrated (larger distances).

26. Comisión Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad www.biodiversidad.gob.mx We acknowledge all participants of this effort, that have provided funding, institutions and expertise as well as personnel from CONABIO. Man waiting for rain (Vindobonensis Codex)