Small Collections Grant

The establishment of a database in file maker will allow a better organization for the use of the herbarium “Walter L. Meagher”, the information of each collection can be stored, processed and available to other institutions, in the same way it will be linked to the databases of the world's leading herbalists in order to consult the taxonomic update of the plant groups. This database format can be imported and exported in Excel format so that the amount of information of these years can be incorporated into the new file maker database, allowing a quick and accurate capture of field specimens, georeferences which will be linked to the cartography and the printing of the labels of the collected copies. All the information stored will allow to generate sustenance and support in the conservation activities of the Mexican flora that the botanical garden has undertaken for 25 years, this information will be the basis for floristic, ecological and ethnobotanical research, and that in turn give coherence to the dissemination of the collection of the same botanical garden.
This database format will facilitate, to know the number of collectors, the collection sites through a link with the cartography, the amount of duplicates, generate priority collection sites, decision making for the conservation of the native flora of the arid and semi-arid areas of Mexico, where a large number of species exclusive to Mexican biota develop and many of them threatened by various anthropogenic issues.