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Small Collections Grant

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Improvement of the São Paulo State Federal University Herbarium (HUFSP): an incentive for a developing collection in a Brazilian peripheral area.

mbrcaruzo@unifesp.br

Brazil

Conserve, Other

Cost (USD): 

2000

HUFSP

Universidade Federal de São Paulo

Objective:

We aim to facilitate the enrichment and management of the Herbarium from São Paulo State Federal University (HUFSP) collection. This is an important repository of voucher material for researches on systematics, ecology, conservation biodiversity, ethnobotany, paleobiology and phytochemistry, and also an important support for classes and extension projects in the University. Our request is unique in the sense that we are located in São Paulo Metropolitan region, in an extremely peripherical and vulnerable area (municipality of Diadema) where is no other official biological collections.

Timetable:

Activity/Month
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Material purchase X
Student’s training X X X X
Mounting specimens X X X X X X X X X X
Registering specimens X X X X X X
Storing specimens X X X X
Production of grant report X X

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.

  • 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.

  • Curating specimens (e.g., updating families, species identification, identifying types) – up to 20 points.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • The project will yield durable benefits (specimens, digitized metadata, databases, websites) – up to 15 points.

  • The project involves outreach/mentoring and broad dissemination – up to 15 points.

This proposal scores:

/40

Proposal

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Plan:

Brazil is facing a huge contingency for research, being all public universities the most affected institutions. Campus Diadema is one of the most underprivileged units of UNIFESP, located at Metropolitan Region of São Paulo, is the only campus having a Biological Sciences undergraduate course and the herbarium is the Institution’s unique official biological collection. So, the improvement of this Herbarium would be of great importance for the Institution and for the community. Even though we have a small herbarium with only about 1000 registered exsiccate, we still have many specimens from different research projects at Unifesp (ca. 2000) in need of mounting and to be included into the collection. These specimens resulted from fieldwork in many Brazilian locations, involving undergraduate and graduate students studying Euphorbiaceae (predominantly of the genus Croton) and Rubiaceae.
Therefore, all material requested in this project (2000 sheets of Opaline 240 grams A3 format, high brightness; 2000 sheets of Kraft paper, for species cover) will be used for mounting specimens and store them in the herbarium cabinets. For mounting, registering and storing specimens we have a team of undergraduate and graduate students, besides a technician dedicated to the herbarium for two days a week. This technician (biologist) is very much dedicated to the improvement of the collection and her recent work in the herbarium highlights the importance that our Institution is now giving for it.

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Confection of exsiccates to improve the collection

"Other" target:

Maria Beatriz Rossi Caruzo

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