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Small Grants to Institutions: Invasive Species

 

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Coordinating Institution:
  • Name:                                                                             The U.S. Geological Survey
  • Institution's Web Page:                             http://www.usgs.gov/
  • IABIN Thematic Network's Web Page:    http://i3n.iabin.net/

 

Institution Country Amount (USD) Period Purpose
1 Fundación Universidad Nacional del Sur Argentina 9,780 Completed Implement, Update and Maintain an IABIN Invasive Information Species Database 
2 Fundación Universidad Nacional del Sur Argentina 7,100 Completed Geo-reference occurrence records of the I3N database that are lacking of geographical information in order to establish better prevention and management strategies.
3 Administracion de Parques Nacionales Argentina 10,000 Completed Systematize and standardize the information about alien species available in National Parks Administration, Argentina, and incorporate it to I3N Database, adding references about invasiveness, impacts, invasion characteristics and management.
4 Instituto de Ecología, Universidad Mayor de San Andrés (UMSA)    Bolivia 10,000 Completed Develop a database that compiles information concerning the detection, prevention, management, and control of  invasive species
5 Horus Institute for Environmental Conservation and Development Brazil 10,000 Completed Publish the Brazil I3N database of invasive alien species on the web for public access and initiate a network of data providers
6 Horus Institute for Environmental Conservation and Development Brazil 10,000 Completed This project is intended to allow the Horus Institute to add more information to the database, as material has been gathered but not appended for lack of resources.
7 Instituto de Ecologia y Biodiversidad Chile 10,000 Completed Complement and strengthen the Chilean PEI data base for IABIN. Complete all information fields of the I3N database and add other fields considered relevant.
8 Centro de Estudios Avanzados en Ecología y Biodiversidad    Chile 10,000 Completed Strengthen and complete a national database including 1550 records of exotic species in conformity with the technical standards of IABIN-I3N
9 Instituto de Investigaciones de Recursos Biológicos Alexander Von Humbolt    Colombia 11,523 Completed Create an online system to identify and compile available primary and secondary information on invasive species.
10 Asociación para la Conservación y el Estudio de la Biodiversidad (Costa Rica) Costa Rica 10,000 Completed Create the Costa Rican Invasive Species Information System (CRISIS) based on the I3N Invasive Alien Species Database.
11 Subsecretaria de Áreas Protegidas y Biodiversidad    

Dominican

Republic

9,740 Completed Digitalize the records of at least 1,500 invasive species in the Dominican Republic and establish a digital photographic register. 
12 Corporación Centro de Datos para la Conservación    Ecuador 10,000 Completed Assess, assemble and validate the digitized data of the Invasive Species of Ecuador.
13 Oficina Técnica de Biodiversidad    Guatemala 10,000 Completed Update and publish a national inventory of species that represent a potential threat, displacement and disappearance of native species. 
14 Institute of Jamaica    Jamaica 9,911 Completed Provide high quality data to the IABIN on invasive species present in Jamaica in all habitat types
15 Asociación Guyra Paraguay     Paraguay 9,936 Completed Establish, update and maintain an I3N Invasive Alien Species database in Paraguay
16 Museo de Historia Natural de la Universidad Ricardo Palma    Peru 7,918 Completed To install and maintain the invasive and exotic species database in Peru, following the standards of the IABIN Invasive Species Information Thematic Network
17 Ministerio de Medio Ambiente y Recursos Naturales El Salvador 10,000 Completed Update the status of information regarding vertebrate fauna, carrying out a review and update the state of knowledge in place and launch an initiative to create a database consistent with the guidelines of IABIN and I3N
18 Universidad de la República Oriental del Uruguay (UDELAR) a través de la Facultad de Ciencias    Uruguay 10,000 Completed Establish, update and maintain a data base about Biological Invasions in Uruguay
19 Universidad de la República Oriental del Uruguay (UDELAR) a través de la Facultad de Ciencias Uruguay 8,700 Completed To enlarge the number of species and records of biological invasion databases of Uruguay (InBUy), by incorporating new data and thus increasing to the amount of 100 further species and more than 1500 records.
20 Universidad de la Republica Oriental de l Uruguay (UDELAR) a traves de la facultad de ciencias Uruguay 8,500 Completed Develope distributional maps and divulgation cards of IAS data included in InBUy. These information/results will be developed for free software and then will be available in the web of Faculty of sciences (UdelaR, Uruguay) and in I3N-IABIN.
21 Universidad Central de Venezuela Venezuela 4,300 Completed Digitalize and systematize the available data on exotic invasive species found in Venezuela

 

 

 

This page was last updated on Friday November 04, 2011.