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Summary |
The
University of Panama Herbarium (PMA), it is the largest herbarium of
Panama and it functions as the National Herbarium, Presently, it has a
collection of 60.000 vascular plants specimens with I digitalized
information. From these 51.000 (85%) have georeferences The information
is available at PMA web site
http://www.up.ac.pa/herbariopanama/index.html.
From the total
available in the web, 9.000 (15%) have no georeference and 7.000 need
verification. Besides, there are 52.000 specimens that need to be
processed. From these, we expect to digitalize and to georeference
12.000. One of the objectives of our proposal is to give a high value to
the information on biodiversity, so it will be widely used in decisions
related to conservation of our environment. Georeference of our
specimens increment the value of our data and allows to use these in
applications to establish and predict real and potential species
distribution, its area of occupation, among others. These are valuable
for the establishment of protected areas, prediction of environmental
impact of processes of development not related to environmental
variable.
Georeferencing
9.000 specimens and verifying 7.000 from the processed collection, it is
our goal. Also, we planned to georeference and digitalize 12.000
specimens from the not processed collection. Moreover 1.500 type images
will be digitalized at high resolution. An upgraded gazetteer will be
gathered to support future georeferencing. The job will be done in a
year by senior Botany students from the University of Panama. Mireya
Correa will coordinate and supervise the project, since she is a
taxonomist with wide experience in digitalizing and georeferencing. We
are requesting US$ 15.000 from IABIN. The 29.500 new data will agree
with IABIN definition and will be generated using standards and
philosophy of this net. Information will be free accessible at Species
and Specimens Net |
