Small Collections Grant
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Protecting biodiversity held in small herbaria: how can we help?
ARGENTINA
Process backlog, Conserve
Cost (USD):
2000
MNES
INSTITUTO DE BIOLOGIA SUBTROPICAL (IBS, CONICET- UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE MISIONES)
Objective:
• Our main objective is to preserve a greater number of specimens by the acquisition of new storage units, i.e. herbarium wardrobe-style cabinets.
• Also, we aim to redistribute and re-organize the collections using the new storage available, in order to processing specimen backlogs, and
• Improve storage and preservation conditions of specimen collections.
Timetable:
Acquisition of storage units: Herbarium wardrobe-style cabinets acquisition. Months 1-4
Processing specimen backlog: Taxonomical Identification and Specimen Mounting. Months 3-12
Re-organize herbarium collection: To insert new specimens inside the current collection. Adequate actualization of the collection according to taxonomy news. Months 3-12
Report. Month 12.
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:
Small herbaria are reservoirs of specific taxa or regional collections, and usually rich in species from a particular area of the world. The characterization of local flora or the diversity within species, genera or families makes small herbaria useful for temporal and spatial distribution studies, identification of biodiversity hot spots, or taxonomic characterization of endemic species. However, small herbaria usually had less financial support or human resources, and usually are maintained by less than five collectors, one of them usually the curator. This lack of financial resources makes difficult the proper conservation of specimens, and the lack of human resources, avoid the collections to be instantly characterized, and available for others to study. In the MNES Herbarium we intend to preserve part of the biodiversity of Argentina, Paraguay and Brazil, with special focus in the border zone of these three countries were collections were made before the Binational Yacyretá Dam construction. We held a rich collection of Poaceae and Fabaceae specimens, and we actively collect new accession to enrich our collection. Nowadays we have a storage deficit in the herbarium making the specimen backlog processing delayed. We pretend to buy new storage units to improve the internal organization of preserved specimens, to bear the new collections and to re-organize the current collections in the MNES herbarium. As we collect new specimens, we introduce new genera, tribes, subfamilie
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ANA ISABEL HONFI
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