Small Collections Grant
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Rare and Endangered Plants of Kurdistan
Iran
Database, Conserve
Cost (USD):
2000
HKS
Kurdistan Agriculture and Natural Resources Research and Education Center
Objective:
flora of Kurdistan province with about 2800 taxa except for ferns, mosses, and fungi is one of the richest zones in Iran. Topography, climatic variability, and edaphic factors made such a flora and diversity.
my project aims are:
1- a detailed conservation assessment of all vulnerable taxa.
2- seed collection
3- re-planting in natural habitats
4- greenhouse propagation and tissue culture for critical-endangered taxa
Timetable:
March 01, 2020 - September 30, 2020: field studies, collecting materials, and greenhouse activities.
October 10, 2020 - December 10, 2020: analyse of collected data and writing the final report of the project
Scoring Rubric
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Collection Improvement (max. 120 points)
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Facilitating access to the physical collections by digitization (e.g., data entry, setting up database structure with an outline of the platform to be used, purchasing equipment, and imaging specimens) – up to 30 points.
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Enhancing physical collections by improving the conservation status of specimens in the herbarium (e.g., better folders, protecting covers, mounting paper, labeling, etc.) – up to 30 points.
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Curating specimens (e.g., updating families, species identification, identifying types) – up to 20 points.
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Increasing our understanding of the flora or funga by making new herbarium specimens available, such as processing of backlog or collecting and mounting of new specimens from understudied sites – up to 20 points.
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Securing collections by distribution of duplicates (or orphan collections) to other regional or international herbaria or shipping endangered collections to another herbarium – up to 20 points.
This proposal scores:
/120
Methods & Funding (max. 40 points)
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Match between the proposed budget and methods for the aims described – up to 10 points.
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Perceived need, the extent to which the project will benefit from IAPT funding: e.g., due to active floristic work or contribution to poorly collected sites, due to threatened conditions of collections, and for the degree of involvement of others (outreach and education). We give more points for herbaria in low- and middle-income countries – up to 20 points.
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Sharing duplicate specimens with other herbaria – up to 10 points.
This proposal scores:
/40
Broader Impacts (max. 40 points)
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Degree of regional importance of the collection or the taxonomic importance of the targeted collection – up to 10 points.
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The project will yield durable benefits (specimens, digitized metadata, databases, websites) – up to 15 points.
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The project involves outreach/mentoring and broad dissemination – up to 15 points.
This proposal scores:
/40
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Plan:
Our field studies will begin in the next March and all defined taxa will visit in nature by the end of the next summer. All collected specimens, seeds, and ecological data will analyse by the next fall. greater herbaria and botanical gardens will be so very helpful for us so after this phase we need to travel to some prominent and successive gardens to get their experiments and updates.
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"Other" target:
Azad Rastegar
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