Small Collections Grant
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Mainteniminet and increment of the vascular and non-vascular collection of FCQB Herbarium.
Mexico
Conserve, Other
Cost (USD):
2000
FCQB
Autonomous University of Guerrero
Objective:
Maintain and increase the vascular and non-vascular specimens in the FCQB herbarium. Wich was built with collects of students in the final years of their undergraduate studies. Also, promote the interest in non-vascular plants, a poorly studied group in the state, in students as the community as well, to collect Antocerotophyta, Jungermanniales, and Bryophytes; and to build capacities for more biology students. Also, we want to work together within communities in the center of the country to promote the importance of these plants.
Timetable:
The fumigation is urgent as also the installation of the Freezer to avoid future pest problems. Also the installation of the Bryophytes cabinet and the acquisition of field material, identification key, and microscopes, (by January 2023). In the same month and successive ones, we´ll have field trips to collect vouchers at the Ecotourism center of the Ñuu Savi community; then, with the new equipment (Stereomicroscope) and identification key, determine them taxonomically, and mounting.
The FCQB herbarium receives undergraduate students interested in the ecology, taxonomy, and biology of spermatophytes, Monilophytes, Lycophytes, and recently, Bryophytes. Nowadays three students are enrolled here through the Autonomous University of Guerrero (UAGro) social service program. Next year they´ll start their thesis about Ferns, Antocerotophytes, and Marchantiophytes of the Central part of Guerrero; and, our current three thesis students (two focus on spermatophytes, one on ferns), will contribute to identifying the flora of the Ñuu Savi community. We hope to end the flora by mid-September.
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:
First of all, we need a freezer to sterilize the vouchers; and pest maintenance procedures; we need to replace some mounting paper, and get enough acid-free paper for the non-vascular specimens. We have the first 120 collected bryophytes, unfortunately, we don´t have the cabinet and paper to keep them properly, and stay in paper bags.
Originally, the herbarium was developed for vascular plants (our principal collection), but we need an adequate cabinet to place non-vascular plants; Also, we need the Guide of Bryophyte of Tropical America (Gradstein et. al., 2001), to identify the Bryophytes genus. In the second place, we make contact with a Ñuu Savi community in the center of the state who create an Ecotourism center in their territory. They are interested to know what plants live in their park (more than 100 ha unexplored because of the previous violent - drug trade mediated period), and we all contribute; they´ll allow us to collect vouchers and we´ll make the flora for them. We have 6 undergraduate students interested in collaborating and identifying Spermatophytes, Monilophytes, Lycophytes, Anthocerothophytes, Liverworts, and Mosses of the Park, and building a field guide of the common plants for the Ñuu Savi community.
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Increase the non vascular specimens and promotes their knowledge in central Guerrero Communities
"Other" target:
Felipe Gómez Noguez
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