Small Collections Grant
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Collection and identification of plant specimens of Kermanshah province, west of Iran
IRAN
Database, Digitally image
Cost (USD):
2000
RANK
Agricultural and Natural Resources Research and Education Center, Kermanshah, Iran
Objective:
Collecting and identifying endemic and rare plants which have restricted to the threatening habitats.
Completing the collection of all populations of any species to reach sources for detecting biodiversity among ecosystems.
Digitization of the herbarium by providing proper photographs of plant specimens and scanning them to establish virtual herbarium.
Vegetation monitoring of the province in the ten year periods of time in oak forests, alpine and wetland vegetations.
Timetable:
Timetable for a period of 5 years from 2022 to 2026
Years 1-Years 5 (2022-2026)
Months 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Title
Collecting plant specimens * * * * * * * *
Taken photographs * * * * * * * *
Mounting and preparing herbarium sheets * * * * * * * * * * *
Identification of plant specimens * * * * * * * * * * *
Digitizing herbarium * * * * * * * * * * *
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:
Kermanshah province with an area about 25000 km2 has been situated in western Iran. It lies between 45.5° and 48° E longitude and 33.7° and 35.3° N latitude and altitudes between 170 to 3354 m asl. Annual average rainfall is about 400-500 mm. Most of the surface of the province lies within the Zagros chain, which forms the western periphery of the Iranian Plateau. Oak forests with dominated with Quercus brantii Lindl. cover about 20% of the province area. We have collected about 10500 specimens including 1115 species, 568 genera and 110 families, so far. It seems that the number of species can reach 1600 after completing gathering and identification of all of the specimens over the whole localities. In order to gain this goal, we must work in this extent and refer to the fields including plains, wetlands, hills, mountaineous area to collect plant specimens in various vegetational stages. Then we will prepare herbarium sheets and identify them using references and also getting help from other botanists in the world by exchanging duplicate specimens and finally record data labels in the herbarium software. After that we want to digitize the herbarium by scanning the herbarium
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Nastaran Jalilian
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