IAPT Grants
Small Collections Grants
IAPT provides competitive grants for the improvement and/or maintenance of botanical collections (herbaria) of algae, fungi, and or plants.
2019 Round
107 applications were received in the 2019 round, for funding in 2020.
The following applications were selected for funding.
Digitization of Herbarium of Ivo and Marija Horvat (ZAHO), Croatia
University of Zagreb, Faculty of Science, Department of Biology
ZAHO
One of small but important collections hosting valuable material from species rich Balkan Peninsula is Herbarium of Ivo and Marija Horvat (ZAHO) located at the Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb. It stores approximately 70 000 specimens collected by Ivo Horvat throughout the Balkans. It also includes type specimens as Horvat described several new species. As the material is not frequently used in research, the main objective of the project is to database and digitize herbarium specimens, thus making them freely available for research worldwide.
2000
Amount Awarded: US$
Ivana Rešetnik
Applicant:
Croatia
Providing Equipment for Digitizing Herbarium Collection of UUH and Materials for further Processing Plant Specimens
Institute of General and Experimental Biology SB RAS
UUH
The first project’s objective is providing the opportunity to digitize plant specimens stored in the Herbarium of the Institute of General and Experimental Biology SB RAS (UUH). The second important objective is providing basic materials for plant specimens processing before inserting into the Herbarium collection.
2000
Amount Awarded: US$
Oleg A. Anenkhonov
Applicant:
Russia
Systematization of the third largest lichen collection from Colombia: preserving the past and future of reference collections in Neotropics.
Universidad de Caldas
FAUC
Systematize and improve 5000 specimens of the lichenological collection of University of Caldas Herbarium-FAUC and promote the use of this reference collection.
1) Digitalize the entire lichen collection to be included in the FAUC Herbarium main collection database.
2) Improve exsiccates conservation of antique material already deposited in the FAUC Herbarium.
3) Perform a curatorship and taxonomic verification of the lichen specimens of the Herbarium FAUC.
4) Recognize the number of specimens from FAUC lichen collection.
5) Create and send duplicatas from type materials to other herbaria.
2000
Amount Awarded: US$
Luis Fernando Coca
Applicant:
Colombia
Enhancing collection management in the Seychelles National Herbarium.
Seychelles National Herbarium
SEY
Our Herbarium currently does not have an internal budget for digitization and a relatively small budget for collection management. We have identified several aspects of improvement which our Herbarium has been striving to achieve but due to funding constraints, these tasks have yet to be fully realized. With this current grant, the team aims to make the following improvements:
1) Upgrading collection management conditions and
2) Enhance digitization practices.
1883
Amount Awarded: US$
Charles Morel
Applicant:
Seychelles
African Secrets from the backlog at PO Herbarium: revealing 20th-century African collectors and specimens brought in private botanical missions.
Museu de História Natural e da Ciência da Universidade do Porto
PO
A. Face the obstacle of not having a digitization unit at PO herbarium room (computer + photographic stand) due to lack of funding for continuous curatorship of a 15,500 African specimens.
B. Catalogue the unofficial collections created during a long period of the 20h century (1912-1970), which sum up to 12192 specimens of plants and 3,308 cryptogamic specimens (algae, fungi, lichens, bryophytes, pteridophytes).
C. D. Promote curatorship, conservation, research, dissemination and educational perspectives, by disclosing the missions, protagonists, and meta-data of specimens.
2000
Amount Awarded: US$
Cristiana Vieira
Applicant:
Portugal
Digitization of the historical collections in the Thessaloniki Aristotle University (TAU) Herbarium (Greece)
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of Biology, Lab. of Systematic Botany & Phytogeography
TAU
Digitization of c. 3,000 specimens dating back from the early 19th century up to the late 1930’s. Among them there are at least 44 types, as well as the Zaganiaris’ collections, survived WWII and kept only in TAU. It is notable that Zaganiaris’ published records are so far treated with reservations by many researchers, as the existence of specimens substantiating them was not known. The main objective is to preserve, conserve and bring into light these collections in order to reveal new information on Greece’s phytodiversity and to enhance their accessibility from the scientific community.
2000
Amount Awarded: US$
Regina Karousou
Applicant:
Greece
Barcoding and digitizing the Geo Potts Herbarium (BLFU)
Geo Potts Herbarium, University of the Free State
BLFU
Objective 1: Barcode all the specimens in the quick guide and main collection (± 25 000 specimens) and link barcodes to specimen records in BRAHMS.
Objective 2: Digitize all specimens in the quick guide and main collection (± 25 000 specimens) and publish the images on the online database.
2000
Amount Awarded: US$
Lize Joubert
Applicant:
South Africa
Updating digital database and processing specimen backlog using interns.
Paul C. Standley Herbarium, Pan American Agricultural School/Zamorano University
EAP
The Paul Standley Herbarium has a skeleton staff of one and maintenance budget limited to utilities and cleaning supplies. We are part of Zamorano University, but the collections have never been a University priority. Over 70 years a series of prominent researchers has built up a collection that includes about a thousand types among the roughly 200,000 catalogued specimens. We have the only about 1% currently digitized. With approximately a thousand new arrivals each year, the new material is being processed, but we have made few inroads into the backlog or digitalization.
2000
Amount Awarded: US$
Rina Fabiola Díaz
Applicant:
Honduras
Preservation of the endangered biological heritage of the Herbarium PORT, BioCentro-UNELLEZ, Venezuela
UNELLEZ-Biocentro
PORT
General Objective:
Preserve the existing biological heritage in the Port herbarium that is currently at risk of damage due to lack of supplies for its maintenance
Specific Objectives
Digitize key specimens from the collection whose risk of damage is greater when insects and fungi attack.
Exchange plants at critical risk for attack by insects and fungi with other herbaria in the world to safeguard the existing biological heritage.
Process accumulated samples into the formal herbarium collection.
2000
Amount Awarded: US$
Santos Miguel Nino
Applicant:
Venezuela
Improving WIND herbarium collection through specimen imaging, data checking and clearing mounting backlog
National Botanical Research Institute (NBRI)
WIND
The National Herbarium of Namibia (WIND) a section within the National Botanical Research Institute (NBRI) situated in Windhoek. WIND currently holds ca. 95 000 specimens of the 4 300 indigenous and naturalised plant species found in Namibia.
The aim of this project is to improve WINDs herbarium collection through imaging of specimens, data correctness and assisting in clearing an area of backlog.
Project Objectives: 1) Image herbarium specimens held at WIND in a systematic way, 2) Check and clean data of imaged specimens on BRAHMS, 3) Assist in clearing backlog of specimens awaiting mounting
1984
Amount Awarded: US$
Frances Chase
Applicant:
Namibia
2020 Round
45 applications were received in the 2020 round, for funding in 2021.
The following applications were selected for funding.
Starting the digitalization and online publication of the historical collections of MEDEL herbarium
Universidad Nacional de Colombia sede Medellín
MEDEL
- Get high resolution images of 20.000 specimens.
- Revise and clean the data of the imaged specimens.
- Publish the data of the imaged specimens and at least the images of 2000 specimens at http://www.biovirtual.unal.edu.co/en/collections/search/plants/.
2000
Amount Awarded: US$
Jorge Perez Zabala
Applicant:
Colombia
Preliminary checklist of Lycophyta and Monilophyta of the Valle del Cauca department, Colombia
Universidad del Valle
CUVC
1. General Objective
To generate a preliminary checklist of the Licophyta and Monilophyta of the of Valle del Cauca department, based on the collections housed at the CUVC herbarium.
Specific Objectives
- Increase the herbarium database by adding ca. 2000 specimens of Lycophyta and Monilophyta housed at the CUVC herbarium.
- Increase the herbarium collection by mounting, including and databasing 500 new collections of Lycophyta and Monilophyta.
2000
Amount Awarded: US$
Alejandro Zuluaga Trochez
Applicant:
Colombia
Digitization of mycological collection of V.N Karazin Kharkiv National University herbarium (Ukraine)
V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University
CWU
The mycological part of the V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University herbarium CWU (Myc) contains about 30 000 fungal specimens including type materials and rare exsiccates. Recently we started mobilizing our collection and have already databased 5922 specimens available through GBIF, but we are missing digital macro-photos.
The main objectives we set up are (i) to establish a first full-equipped fungal digitization facility in Ukraine; (ii) to digitize all the type specimens stored in CWU (Myc) herbarium; (iii) to digitize the most valuable exsiccates and contemporary specimens.
2000
Amount Awarded: US$
Olexander Akulov
Applicant:
Ukraine
VIRTUAL HERBAM COLLECTION
UNIVERSIDADE DO ESTADO DE MATO GROSSO/CÂMPUS UNIVERSITÁRIO DE ALTA FLORESTA
HERBAM
- 1. Transfer 100% of data from Brahms to the JABOT spreadsheet (26.000 specimens database)
(http://jabot.jbrj.gov.br/);
- 2. Digitization of 100% of the typus samples (49 specimens);
- 3. Digitization of the HERBAM collection (26,000 specimens)
- 4. Provide images and data from the collection at REFLORA- HERBARIO VIRTUAL, on site
http://reflora.jbrj.gov.br/
2000
Amount Awarded: US$
CÉLIA REGINA ARAÚJO SOARES LOPES
Applicant:
BRAZIL
Small herbariums as a learning tool: Virtual Herbarium FCO (University of Oviedo, Spain) as an example
University of Oviedo
FCO
Virtual herbaria are a source of information on the biodiversity that surrounds us. Its potential use in learning implies a redesign of educational experiences. As an example, a new online botanical resource, the Virtual Herbarium FCO (University of Oviedo) that collects information and a wide gallery of images of the flora of Asturias (north of Spain) and neighboring territories. The Virtual Herbarium can be consulted online, however, the infrastructure available is scarce and we would like to improve our resources and the dissemination of information.
2000
Amount Awarded: US$
Eduardo Cires Rodríguez
Applicant:
Spain
Breaking the ice: building photosystem and starting digitization of LWS herbarium
State Natural History Museum of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
LWS
1. To build digitization complex basing on Canon EOS 250D camera and Canon EF-S 35 mm lens.
2. To initiate digitization of LWS herbarium starting from endemics distributed in Ukrainian Carpathians (2031 vouchers).
3. To make an initial database of the herbarium vouchers deposited in LWS.
4. To share digitized materials with scientists around the world by uploading them to JACQ virtual herbarium, Data Centre Biodiversity of Ukraine, and UkrBin database.
1625
Amount Awarded: US$
Andriy Novikov
Applicant:
Ukraine
Conserving endangered botanical collection of M. R. Almeida (1939–2017) from India: incorporation and digitization
Naoroji Godrej Centre for Plant Research
NGCPR
M.R. Almeida (1939–2017) was a prominent plant taxonomist from India; whose major contribution to the floristic of Western Ghats is noteworthy. This collection was made by him with other co-workers between 1960 to 1998, mainly from Western India and most are referred in the treatment of 'Flora of Maharashtra (Vol.1 to 6)'. Due to poor maintenance, many specimens are deteriorating and needs immediate conservation attention. This proposal is an endeavour to shipping this collection to NGCPR herbarium, its restoration, curation and dissemination via digitization.
1990
Amount Awarded: US$
Mayur Dhondiram Nandikar
Applicant:
India
Enhancing collection management and clearing specimen backlog in the endangered Iranian Cryptogamic Herbarium
Iranian Research Organization for Science and Technology (IROST)
ICH
Iranian Cryptogamic Herbarium is one of the important collections with valuable material from the species-rich Hyrcanian region and the Transcaucasus biodiversity hotspot. It is by far the largest lichen collection in Iran and in the Middle East, holding valuable reference collections. Due to insufficient funding, the collection is at risk of damage and needs immediate curation. To make the collection available for the wide research community, the main project objectives are to improve the collection preservation, database and digitize the collection, and process specimen backlog.
2000
Amount Awarded: US$
Masoomeh Ghobad-Nejhad
Applicant:
Iran
Processing specimen backlog and updating the database of the Jardín Botánico de Cartagena “Guillermo Piñeres” Herbarium (JBGP)
Jardín Botánico de Cartagena “Guillermo Piñeres”
JBGP
The objectives are 1. Process backlog specimens, 2. Update the Herbarium database. The JBGP Herbarium is the most important plant collection of the Colombian Caribbean because, during the '80s and '90s, it received specimens from several projects of poorly known Colombian Caribbean localities. From 2009 to 2015, the collection was abandoned due to the lack of funding for maintenance. This grant will contribute to the efforts started in 2015 to recover the herbarium collection creating the current database and mounting and restoring non-processed and damaged specimens.
2000
Amount Awarded: US$
Santiago Madrinan
Applicant:
Colombia
Accessioning and digitization of uncurated historical collections at Hendrix College
Hendrix College
HXC
The Hendrix College Herbarium has approximately 6600 accessions dating back to the 1940s, including bryophytes, lichens, fungi, marine algae, and vascular plants, but lacks funding for collections management or curation. Funds are requested to mount, digitize and properly 300-350 research-grade cryptogamic collections, which are in various stages of disarray, as well as up to 500 tracheophyte collections that are labeled but unmounted. The tracheophytes are primarily unicate collections of local significant from county flora projects done in the 1960s-1980s.
2000
Amount Awarded: US$
Adam Schneider
Applicant:
USA
2021 Round
52 applications were received in the 2021 round, for funding in 2022. Thank you to all who applied.
The following applications were selected for funding.
Digitization and online availability of Herbarium SPFR records (DB/FFCLRP-USP, Brazil)
University of São Paulo
SPFR
The objectives of this proposal are:
- to accelerate the digitization of the SPFR Herbarium collection – from 2,000 to 6,000 digitalized records
- make the records available on an online platform
- organize the collection for assembly and correct packaging of the exsiccates (nearly 5,000 numbers waiting to the mounted)
- Return of loans.
2000
Amount Awarded: US$
Milton Groppo Jr
Applicant:
Brasil
Digitizing specimens with economic use in a small herbarium in Ecuador: improvement to the Herbarium of Economic Botany of Ecuador (QUSF)
Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Quito, Ecuador
QUSF
The Herbarium of Economic Botany of Ecuador (QUSF) holds 26,200 specimens with over sixty percent of them keeping information on uses and applications of economic value being one of the few herbaria in Ecuador that addresses exclusively this topic. In Ecuador, only 15% of the 20 herbaria have portions of their collections available online. Therefore, we propose as the principal objective to digitize all herbarium specimens and make the data public. Thus, having specimen data easily accessible online will promote sharing of information and foster biodiversity information networks.
1900
Amount Awarded: US$
Hugo Valdebenito
Applicant:
Ecuador
Implementation of improvements in the collection of lichens and fungi of the Herbario Nacional de Bolivia (LPB)
HERBARIO NACIONAL DE BOLIVIA
LPB
1)Improve the conditions of the collection of lichens and fungi in the Herbario Nacional de Bolivia (LPB).
2)Built capacities on students in the final years of their studies about the curation and conservation process for collections of lichens and fungi.
3)Teach and communicate the importance of collections of lichens and fungi to the civilian population.
2000
Amount Awarded: US$
Carla Maldonado
Applicant:
BOLIVIA
Digitization and expansion of the local reference collection from Herbário de Niterói (NIT)
Universidade Federal Fluminense
NIT
1. Capture high resolution images of 5000 specimens and share them online at http://jabot.jbrj.gov.br/ and https://specieslink.net/;
2. Increase the herbarium collection by mounting, including and databasing 500 backlog specimens;
3. Improve specimen storage and processing conditions;
4. Equip collection rooms to safely accommodate incoming specimens donated from Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro.
5. Consolidate NIT as reference collection for threatened Atlantic Rainforest biodiversity by increasing accession of specimens from local preserved areas through field work and donations.
1976
Amount Awarded: US$
Adriana Lobão
Applicant:
Brazil
Database and Collection Improvement of Lao Plants
National University of Laos
FOF
The Herbarium of Faculty of Forestry (FOF), National University of Laos is housed more than 10,000 specimens (including Types) of Lao plants which are being described recently from Laos and cited as literature for the account of Lao plants. This project aims to establish a database of the collections at the FOF herbarium.
2000
Amount Awarded: US$
Phetlasy Souladeth
Applicant:
Laos
Systematization, digitization and curatorship of Peruvian tree specimens housed at the Forestry Herbarium MOL
National Agrarian University La Molina
MOL
MOL herbarium contains a unique collection of about 60000 herbarium specimens, including the largest known collection of Peruvian tree specimens. Over half of the sheets at MOL were digitized, supported by the Atrium Project, but many specimens remain unprocessed. We propose to continue working with the missing specimens (4500 specimens) by following three objectives:
1.Enhancement of collection management and curation practices
2.Systematization and digitization of specimens, with tree collections and type material (42 types).
3.Publish information obtained in the study to be freely available
2000
Amount Awarded: US$
Sonia Palacios Ramos
Applicant:
PERU
Saving the modern phanerogam collection of the MVM herbarium: processing and preserving specimen backlog of an important record of uruguayan flora.
Museo Nacional de Historia Natural
MVM
The herbarium of the National Museum of Natural History (MNHN) house ca. 100.0000 specimens and has a minimum staff of one person with a maintenance budget limited to mounting materials and preserving supplies. In the last 10 years through several field trips around the country mainly directed to collect phanerogam specimens which redounded in ca. 2500 specimens’ backlog. These specimens were collected in high biodiversity threatened localities. The main objective is processing and digitizing this specimen’s backlog in order to make them available to the scientific community.
2000
Amount Awarded: US$
Meica Valdivia
Applicant:
Uruguay
Providing equipment and starting digitization of LWKS herbarium
Institute of Ecology of the Carpathians, National Academy of Ukraine
LWKS
General Objective
To share digitized materials with scientists around the world by uploading them to the national biodiversity platform UkrBIN and incorporation into the GBIF.
2000
Amount Awarded: US$
Nadiya Sytschak
Applicant:
Ukraine
Incorporation of a BNRH into J to preserve this small collection in a South African Herbarium; and distribution of new types emanating from BNRH
University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
J
The C.E. Moss Herbarium (J) has recently acquired the extremely valuable SMALL COLLECTION (c. 24 000 specimens) from Buffelskloof Nature Reserve Herbarium (BNRH), which has closed down.
We plan to:
1. Incorporate BNRH specimens into the J collection: confirm taxonomic accuracy (ID and current nomenclature), add information to our BRAHMS database, file specimens in correct folders in compactor system.
2. Digitise specimens and upload to Global Plants. Link to photographs of live plants supplied by BNRH.).
3. Courier duplicates of BNRH types of 20 newly described Asparagus species
1974
Amount Awarded: US$
Glynis V. Cron
Applicant:
South Africa
Enhancing the specimens preservation conditions at DBEV, a herbarium dedicated to teaching and research at University of Antananarivo
University of Antananarivo
DBEV
This project aims to improve the role of the DBEV herbarium, University of Antananarivo, in support the development of a next generation of botanists and taxonomists in Madagascar. Because specimens at DBEV are currently stacked inside unprotected open cases, so they need to be better stored for long-term for both teaching materials and for promoting these specimens as important tool for research. Currently, DBEV houses ca; 9000 specimens, with part of the collection available online (https://herbaria.plants.ox.ac.uk/bol/swioorchids).
1950
Amount Awarded: US$
Mijoro Rakotoarinivo
Applicant:
Madagascar
Database, online publication, and processing backlog at Dourados Herbarium (DDMS), Central-West Brazil
Universidade Federal da Grande Dourados
DDMS
The Dourados Herbarium (DDMS) comprises a collection of ca. 6500 specimens from central-western Brazil, including regional collections of the Atlantic Forest and the highly threatened Pantanal wetland that had been recently massively devastated by fire. Thus, the main objective of preserving specimens and enhance the accessibility of the collection to the community became demanding. The grant will be invested in the following improvements:
1) Database all specimens using JABOT and provide online;
2) Increase the collection by processing all backlog with ca. 2500 specimens.
2000
Amount Awarded: US$
Augusto Giaretta de Oliveira
Applicant:
Brazil