Small Collections Grant
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Expansion, maintenance and digitization of the IFMG Herbarium
Brazil
Database, Digitally image, Conserve, Other
Cost (USD):
2000
IFMG
Instituto Federal de Minas Gerais - Campus Bambuí
Objective:
This project aims to:
1) expand, maintain and organize the collection of IFMG Herbarium, which focuses on specimens from Serra da Canastra National Park and the municipality of Bambuí and its surroundings;
2) carry out the digitization of the collection;
3) contribute to the floristic knowledge of the region through taxonomic identifications and elaboration and availability of species lists and identification keys;
4) contribute to the students' formation.
Timetable:
The timetable here proposed is shown in activitites distributed in the total months of the project (2 years = 24 months)
1. Implementing infrastructure improvements (installation of cabinets, computer, digitization equipments) – Month 1-2
2. Students training – Months 1-4
3. Mounting, registering, treatment and conservation of existing specimens – Months 4-24
4. Digitization of the IFMG herbarium existing specimens – Months 3-6
5. Field trips to Serra da Canastra National Park and to the municipality of Bambuí and its surroundings – Months 3-23
6. Mounting of exsicattes – Months 5, 9, 13, 17, 21
7. Digitization of new exsiccates – Months 6, 10, 14, 18, 22
8. Curation and maintenance of herbarium – Months 3-24
9. Database organization and digitization – Months 6, 10, 14, 18, 22
10. Scientific communication: writing checklist, taxonomic treatments, identification Keys – Months 17-24
11. Scientific communication: school visitations – Months 6, 10, 14, 18, 22
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:
Infrastructure, field work and digitization:
To be able to expand and maintain our starting collection (about 200 specimens), we would need extra cabinets, a computer, external harddrive, camera equipment for digitization and material for the mounting process.
There are still no exsiccates from the Serra da Canastra National Park (SCNP), the main collecting area of this project, so we will start doing monthly excursions to the park. The collections of fertile material will be made by the method of random walks, seeking to visit different phytophysiognomies.
After herborized, deposited in the IFMG herbarium and distributed to national herbaria, the specimens will be identified at the highest possible taxonomic level, with the help of identification keys and guides.
Students from Biological Sciences, Computer Engineering and Agronomy graduation courses will participate in all steps. There is already an ongoing project, where we are working to digitize our collection with the development of a system and creation of an accessible database.
Scientific communication:
We hope to produce checklists, taxonomic treatments, distribution maps and identification keys and publish them in the form of scientific articles.
In order to increase the interaction between society and academia, we will promote activities, such as short courses, lectures, science fairs and visitations, to bring awareness to the importance of plants, taxonomy and herbaria.
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expand the collection
"Other" target:
Fernanda Nunes Cabral
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