Small Collections Grant
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Herbario Nor Peruano: rescuing the Santos R. Llatas Quiroz collection, an invaluable source of information about the flora of northwestern Peru
Perú
Database, Conserve
Cost (USD):
2000
HNOP
Herbario Nor Peruano
Objective:
This project has 3 important objestives: 1) create the first HNOP database. 2) update the HNOP database. 3) providing basic materials for plant specimens damaged and processing before inserting into the Herbarium collection
Timetable:
This project has a duration of 2 months. It is programmed to operate from Monday to Friday from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. and from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. and Saturdays from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. At the same time, work will be done as explained in detail in the plan.
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:
Santos R. Llatas Quiroz (1952-2016) was a prominent Peruvian Botanist, who studied the flora and vegetation of northwestern Peru. In 1976 he started a private herbarium, but this was closed in 2016 after his death. This herbarium reached about 10,070 collections of plants, but after 2016 about 3,000 samples were lost because of lack of care. For this reason, it is necessary to take care of the rest of the collection immediately. His herbarium was not known to the scientific community, for this, it was just recently registered in Index Herbariorum in order to continue to study the northwestern Peru flora in protected natural forests.
To achieve the proposed objectives, a student related to the study of biodiversity will be hired for 2 months. This person will digitize the 7111 samples of the Herbarium North Peruano and will update and change the current numbering of the herbarium on the information cards of each sample. Excel will be used to store the information and create the first Herbario Nor Peruano database, carefully transcribing the information from the cards of each herbarium sample.
With the supplies for curatorial improvements, the herbarium samples that are found with the damaged foldcote paper will be re-mounted and the change to the new information card format will be made.
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"Other" target:
Luis Felipe García Llatas
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