Costa Rica

 

Focal Point:
  • Name: Francisco Javier González Salas
  • Position: Gerente de Planificación - SINACMINAE

  • Organization: Ministerio del Medio Ambiente y Energia (MINAE)

  • Address: 300 mts Norte Radiografica

  • City: San Jose

  • Phone: (506) 256-0917

  • Fax:(506) 2482451

  • E-mail:

[email protected]

          

    

 

N° Institution Thematic Network Amount (USD) Period Purpose
1 Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad (INBio) - Webservices CCatalogue 10,000 Completed Establish the regulatory framework to: (i) implement web services in the Biodiversity Web Portal of the SSTN to have free access to the metadata systems and (ii) verify, update and complete the SSTN data providers metadata
2 Organizacion para Estudios Tropicales Catalogue 10,000 Completed Digitize metadata of 2000 scientific articles and the development of a new data base available in OET, IABIN and SG/OAS webpages
3 Museo Nacional de Costa Rica Historia Natural y Antropología (Costa Rica) Specimens 10,000 Completed Create a digital database from Zoological collections hosted in the National Museum of Costa Rica.
4 The Nature Conservancy Ecosistemas 9,580 Completed The ecosystems from the Central American Pine-Oak ecoregion be standardized and entered into the IABIN standard format. The general aim of this analysis is to test the standardization process and also to enrich The IABIN Ecosystem Thematic Network (ETN).    
5 The Nature Conservancy Ecosistemas 15,000 Completed

To create a freshwater standardized classification and fill out the standard format with approximately 200 classes that span both Central America.
6 The Nature Conservancy Ecosistemas 15,000 Completed

To create a freshwater standardized classification and fill out the standard format with approximately 200 classes that span both South America.
7 The Nature Conservancy Ecosistemas 14,066 Completed Standardize to the IABIN ETN format comes from the recently completed Central America ecoregional biodiversity and threat assessment, a project where TNC and partners identified and mapped ecosystems using a combination of land cover and biophysical factors.     
8 Asociación para la Conservación y el Estudio de la Biodiversidad (Costa Rica) Invasive Species 10,000 Completed Create the Costa Rican Invasive Species Information System (CRISIS) based on the I3N Invasive Alien Species Database.

 

 

 

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