Small Collections Grant
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Boosting the herbarium of the Botanical Garden of Marimurtra
Spain
Database, Digitally image, Process backlog, Conserve
Cost (USD):
2000
HMIM
Botanical Garden of Marimurtra
Objective:
I. To complete the herbarium with the specimens not yet contained in it and already existing in the garden.
Marimurtra is reviewing its taxonomic catalog of species, estimating a total of more than 4,000 taxa. By now, it is ready to update the HMIM for each taxon, aiming to become a reference for the identification of flora.
II.To incorporate the accumulated backlog specimens to the herbarium.
HMIM preserves recollections (1970-90) of specimens to be reviewed, updated and uploaded into the DDBB.
III.To publish the DDBB on public platforms.
With the incorporation of these specimens, HMIM can b
Timetable:
Objective I. New specimens.
Harvesting and pressing.
Duration: 9 months - From January to September 2020
Digitalize
Duration: 2 months - June and October 2020
Mounting
Duration: 1 month - ½ July and ½ November 2020
Add to the database/herbarium - intersect
Duration: 2 months - September and December 2020
Objective II. Preserved specimens
Review/Identification
Duration: 1 month - January 2020
Digitalize
Duration: 1 month - February 2020
Mounting
Duration: 1 month - March 2020
Add to the database/herbarium - intersect
Duration: 1 month - April 2020
Objective III. Publish data in the mentioned platforms
Duration: 1 month - January 2021
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:
In order to accomplish each of the project objectives, the following actions will take place.
Objective I. To complete the herbarium with the specimens not yet contained in it and already existing in the garden.
Actions I.
a. To make an inventory of the potential taxons to be included anew in the herbarium
b. To include the selected taxons (over 4,000 specimens) in the actual herbarium following the protocols of the Herbarium of the Botanical Garden of Marimurtra.
c. To guard for the present and future conservation of the herbarium
Objective II. To incorporate the accumulated backlog specimens to the herbarium.
Actions II.
a. To review the preserved specimens included in 15 old herbarium boxes (aprox 1,500)
b. To include the reviewed specimens in the actual herbarium following the standard procedures (digitalize, incorporate, etc)
c. To guard for the present and future conservation of the herbarium
Objective III. To publish the database on public platforms.
Actions III. The database (including new and preserved specimens) will be published in our website (www.marimurtra.cat), BGCI , BDBC (Database of Biodiversity of Catalonia) and GBIF.
To accomplish all the goals mentioned above, and their related actions, HMIM counts with the active assistance of the the Marimurtra Botanical Garden main botanist responsible, Pere Fraga, who is also a member of the IAPT.
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