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Short listed
THIRD REQUEST FOR
PROPOSALS (RfPsIII)
For the
Development of Value-Added Tools for Decision-Making
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Title of the proposals |
IABIN Funding |
Couterpart Funding |
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Colombia |
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The International Centre
for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)
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Providing means for a
better understanding of biodiversity: improving primary data and using
it for threat assessment and in situ conservation planning in South
America
Spatial datasets have
become a fundamental source of information when trying to assess
environmental, social, economic and biodiversity-related issues. Recent
developments in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and with ecological
niche modeling (ENM) applications have added value to data, and permit
researchers to provide highly policyrelevant analyses to direct our
conservation interventions. Through ENM techniques, potential
distributions of species can be analysed using fairly limited or biased
datasets containing primary data to determine current biodiversity
hotspots, and likely threats from anthropogenic activities and climate
change in order to define current and future in situ and ex situ
conservation priorities.
Checking of biodiversity
data quality as well as using it adequately is a key issue in order to
aid decision-making processes. We propose to (1) assess and improve the
quality of IABIN's terrestrial holdings using automated scripts, (2) use
the primary biodiversity data to develop niche models, (3) couple those
results to assess the extent at which South American taxa are both under
threat and conserved by the current Protected Area network, and (4)
implement an interface through which all results will be made available
to policy-makers. The timeline to develop the project is six months, and
the total budget that will be used is 120,800 USD, from which 50% will
be matched via CIAT, and the other 50% to be financed by IABIN. |
$ 60,000 |
$ 120, 800 |
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Proposal
Agreement
First
report
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United States of America |
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The Conservation Biology
Institute
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A Pilot Application for the Integration,
Visualization, Sharing and Analysis of IABIN Thematic Network Data
To date,
IABIN has focused on the development of standardized information within
the five Thematic Networks (TNs). Scientists, conservationists, planners
and decision makers desperately need to use this type of information
while addressing current environmental, economic and social problems. We
propose to develop a prototype application, the IABIN Data Integration
and Analysis Center (DIAC), to improve the accessibility of TN
information for important conservation, development, planning and
scientific applications.
The IABIN
DIAC will be built on the Data Basin ESRI platform, developed by the
Conservation Biology Institute in partnership with ESRI. This prototype
will allow users to aggregate TN datasets, integrate TN data with other
available information, and to conduct structured data queries. We will
carry out a pilot demonstration where TN datasets are both
well-developed and compliant with standard data sharing protocols. This
project will demonstrate the ability of the emerging technology to
increase the value of these data to decision makers through structured
data integration, visualization and analysis functions. This
demonstration project will help define the blueprint for future
management, distribution and application of all TN datasets across Latin
America and the Caribbean. |
$99, 833 |
$ 211, 275
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Proposal
Agreement
First report
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TOTAL |
$ 159, 833 |
$ 332, 075 |
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