The following professional societies and organizations have participated in the Society Summit and/or one or more of the three follow-up data sharing workshops:
• American Geophysical Union
• American Institute of Biological Sciences
• American Society of Limnology and Oceanography
• American Society of Mammalogists
• American Society for Microbiology
• American Society of Naturalists
• American Society of Plant Taxonomists
• Animal Behavior Society
• BioOne
• Board on International Scientific Organizations
• Botanical Society of America
• Ecological Society of America
• Ecological Society of Argentina
• Ecological Society of Chile
• European Society for Evolutionary Biology
• Federation of the Americas
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility
• Long Term Ecological Research
• Mycological Society of America
• National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis
• National Ecological Observatory Network
• National Evolutionary Synthesis Center
• National Research Council Canada
• National Science Foundation
• Natural Science Collections Alliance
• Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology
• Society for the Study of Evolution
• Society of Systematic Biologists
• TreeBASE
• Willi Hennig Society