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 2016:
- (TCN) The Cretaceous World: Digitizing Fossils to Reconstruct Evolving Ecosystems in the Western Interior Seaway (Cretaceous World)
- (TCN) Lepidoptera of North America Network: Documenting Diversity in the Largest Clade of Herbivores (LepNet)
- (TCN) The Mid-Atlantic Megalopolis: Achieving a greater scientific understanding of our urban world (MAM)
- (TCN) The Microfungi Collections Consortium: A Networked Approach to Digitizing Small Fungi with Large Impacts on the Function and Health of Ecosystems (MiCC)
- (TCN) Documenting Fossil Marine Invertebrate Communities of the Eastern Pacific - Faunal Responses to Environmental Change over the last 66 million years (EPICC)
- (TCN) Documenting the Occurrence through Space and Time of Aquatic Non-indigenous Fish, Mollusks, Algae, and Plants Threatening North America's Great Lakes (GLI)
- (TCN) InvertEBase: Reaching Back to See the Future: Species-rich Invertebrate Faunas Document Causes and Consequences of Biodiversity Shifts (InvertEBase)
- (TCN) The Key to the Cabinets: Building and Sustaining a Research Database for a Global Biodiversity Hotspot (SERNEC)
- (TCN) Fossil Insect Collaborative: A Deep-Time Approach to Studying Diversification and Response to Environmental Change (FIC)
- (TCN) Developing a Centralized Digital Archive of Vouchered Animal Communication Signals (VACS)
- (TCN) The Macroalgal Herbarium Consortium: Accessing 150 Years of Specimen Data to Understand Changes in the Marine/Aquatic Environment (MHC)
- (TCN) Mobilizing New England Vascular Plant Specimen Data to Track Environmental Change (NEVP)
- (TCN) Digitizing Fossils to Enable New Syntheses in Biogeography- Creating a PALEONICHES (Paleoniches)
- (TCN) The Macrofungi Collection Consortium: Unlocking a Biodiversity Resource for Understanding Biotic Interactions, Nutrient Cycling and Human Affairs (MaCC)
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(TCN) Symbiota Collections of Arthropods Network (SCAN): A Model for Collections Digitization to Promote Taxonomic and Ecological Research
- (PEN) 2013 Facilitating a Shared Image Library and Occurrence Database for Ants of the Southwest as Part of the SCAN TCN
- (PEN) 2014 Ground-dwelling Insects in the Brigham Young University Collection, Enhancement to SCAN
- (PEN) 2015 Integration of data from the Triplehorn Insect Collection with the Southwestern Collections of Arthropods Network
- (PEN) 2016 The addition of OrthopNet to SCAN
- (TCN) InvertNet: An Integrative Platform for Research on Environmental Change, Species Discovery and Identification
- (TCN) Plants, Herbivores and Parasitoids: A Model System for the Study of Tri-Trophic Associations (TTD)
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(TCN) North American Lichens and Bryophytes: Sensitive Indicators of Environmental Quality and Change (LBCC)
- (PEN) 2012 Digitization of North American Bryophyte and Lichen Specimens from Florida Herbaria
- (PEN) 2012 Addressing Colorado Lichens and Bryophytes as Sensitive Indicators of Environmental Quality and Change
- (PEN) 2013 Digitization of Two Important Medium-sized Collections to Join the North American Bryophytes and Lichens TCN
- (PEN) 2014 Digitization of North American Bryophyte and Lichen Specimens from Two Ohio Herbaria at the University of Cincinnati (CINC)
