InterAmerican Biodiversity Information Network (IABIN)

 

Small Grants to Institutions: Pollinators

 

The Pollinator Partnership

Coordinating Institution:

 

Institution Country Amount (USD) Period Purpose
1 Universidad de Misiones Argentina 10,000 Completed Digitize 20,000 specimens of pollinators and related plants in the Province of Misiones, Argentina.
2 Instituto de Biociências, Universidad de S. Paulo    Brazil 15,000 Completed Digitize information on bees and flowers.
3 Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária (EMBRAPA) Brazil 10,000 Not granted Digitize 4.000 specimens of the insect visitors’ and pollinators’ specimens of the CPATU Entomological Museum, as well as the plants they use as food resources
4 Universidade Federal do Paraná Brazil 9,924 Not granted Digitize 64,500 pollinator specimens deposited in the Entomological Collection Father Jesus S. Moure
5 Universidade Federal do Maranhão Brazil 9,940 Completed Digitize 15,061 specimens of bees plus their associated plants that belong to the LEACOL bee collection
6 Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso Chile 10,000 Completed Digitize 230 species and approximately 60.000 individual specimens of bees in Chile.
7 Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso Chile 4,000 Completed Digitize data about the interaction among nativewild Chilean bees and their host plants they visit. This work will be based on the registered information exhibited by bees of the “Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso” Collection.
8 Instituto de Ecología y Biodiversidad (IEB) Chile 10,306 Completed Digitize 7,000 to 10,000 specimens that belong to approximately 3,000 species of Diptera, Coleoptera, Himenoptera, Lepidoptera and birds that can be pollinators or potencial pollinators in Chile.
9 Instituto de Ecología y Biodiversidad (IEB) Chile  9,840 Completed Digitize 5,000 specimens that belong to approximately 210 species of Diptera, Coleoptera, Himenoptera, Lepidoptera and birds that can be pollinators or potencial pollinators in Chile.D
10 Universidad Nacional de Colombia    Colombia 10,000 Completed Digitize the information of 13.000 specimens of bees and pollinator bats deposited in the Natural    Sciences Institute (ICN) and in the Bees' Laboratory  of the Biology Department (LABUN).
11 Fundación para la Conservación y Educación Biológica – BioCe Ecuador 10,000 Completed To implement, update and maintain for a minimum of five years an Internet-based data base with 30,000 specimens of families of Lepidoptera pollinators, including digital images of superior and inferior parts.
12 Universidad de San Carlos USAC Guatemala 10,000 Completed To digitalize and make available to general public 7,934 records of pollinating bees and their food plant.
13 Universidad de las Americas Mexico 2,948 Completed Digitize 4000 specimens of bees currently deposited at the Laboratory of entomology, Universidad de las Américas Puebla, Mexico
14 Universidad de las Americas Mexico 7,000 Completed Digitalize and make available through the web information of circa 10000 specimens of bees currently deposited at the Laboratory of entomology, Universidad de las Américas Puebla, Mexico.
15 Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute Panama 15,000 Completed To digitalize 60,000 specimens of tropical bees from the Dr. David W. Roubik, Ph.D. collection
16 Asociación GUYRA Paraguay Paraguay 10,000 Completed Digitize 4089 records with 664 insects species, 18 hummingbirds' species and 12 bats' species know nowadays in Paraguay.
17 Red de Acción en Agricultura Alternativa Peru 10,000 Completed Digitize quality data including scientific information about Peru's insects, mammals and pollinating birds.
18 Fundacion ecologica SALVANATURA El Salvador 10,000 Completed Establish the regulatory framework to carry out the digitization of at least 7.281 specimens of pollinating species in El Salvador

 

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