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) program:
Award Year 2022
Award Year 2021
- (TCN) Collaborative Research: Bringing Asia to digital life: mobilizing underrepresented Asian herbarium collections in the US to propel biodiversity discovery
- (TCN) TCN: Extending Anthophila research through image and trait digitization (Big-Bee): BigBee
Award Year 2020
- (TCN) Building a global consortium of bryophytes and lichens: keystones of cryptobiotic communities
- (TCN) Mobilizing Millions of Marine Mollusks of the Eastern Seaboard (ESB)
- (TCN) Documenting Marine Biodiversity through Digitization of Invertebrate Collections (DigIn)
Award Year 2019
- (TCN) Digitizing collections to trace parasite-host associations and predict the spread of vector-borne disease (TPT)
- (TCN) American Crossroads: Digitizing the Vascular Flora of the South-Central United States (TORCH)
- (TCN) Enhancing Access to Taxonomic and Biogeographical Data to Stem the Tide of Extinction of the Highly Imperiled Pacific Island Land Snails (PILSBRY)
Award Year 2018
- (TCN) Capturing California's Flowers: Using Digital Images to Investigate Phenological Change in a Biodiversity Hotspot (CAP)
- (TCN) The Pteridological Collections Consortium: An Integrative Approach to Pteridophyte Diversity Over the Last 420 Million Years (PCC)
- (TCN) Digitizing "Endless Forms": Facilitating Research on Imperiled Plants with Extreme Morphologies (Endless Forms)
Award Year 2017:
- (TCN) Using Herbarium Data to Document Plant Niches in the High Peaks and High Plains of the Southern Rockies - Past, Present, and Future (SoRo)
- (TCN) oVert: Open Exploration of Vertebrate Diversity in 3D (oVert)
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)
- (PEN) 2016 Augmenting the temporal and geographic range of InvertEBase through additional collaboration of the Chicago Academy of Sciences
- (PEN) 2018 Mollusca and Arthropoda Biodiversity in the Colorado Plateau Region
- (PEN) 2020 Invertebrates from the Rocky Mountains and Great Plains: University of Colorado Museum of Natural History expands taxonomic and geographic coverage of InvertEBase
- (TCN) The Key to the Cabinets: Building and Sustaining a Research Database for a Global Biodiversity Hotspot (SERNEC)
- (PEN) 2017 Integrating the herbaria of peninsular Florida, a biodiversity hotspot of endemism, rarity, and richness
- (PEN) 2018 Filling in Knowledge Gaps with Key Herbaria for Understanding Vascular Plant Diversity in the Atlantic Coastal Plain
- (PEN) 2020 Integrating the unique collections of southern Illinois at SIU to improve coverage of the Southeastern US Flora in 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)
- (PEN) 2015 Partnership to the New England Vascular Plant Network for the University of Maine Herbarium
- (PEN) 2015 Partnership to the Existing New England Vascular Plant Network for Collections at the New York Botanical Garden
- (PEN) 2020 Partnership to the New England Vascular Plant Network (NEVP) for the Environmental Management and Monitoring Alliance (EMMA)
- (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)
- (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
- (PEN) 2017 Incorporation of a Massive New World Invertebrate Collection at the University of Texas at El Paso
- (PEN) 2018 Field Museum of Natural History Partnership with the Southwest Collection of Arthropods Network
- (PEN) 2020 Contribution of Digital Data from Ground-dwelling Orthopteroid Orders at American Museum of Natural History to the Symbiota Collections of Arthropods Network
- (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)
- (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)
