Grants to Institutions

Thematic network: Species (STN)

Coordinating Institution:

 

The National Biodiversity Institute (INBio) of Costa Rica is a private research and biodiversity management center, established in 1989 to support efforts to gather knowledge on the country’s biological diversity and promote its sustainable use.

Institution's Web Page:

http://www.inbio.ac.cr/en/default.html

 

IABIN Thematic Network's Web Page:

http://specimens.iabin.net/en/index.html

 

Institution

Contribution (GS/OAS)

Period

Purpose

Argentina

1

Administración de Parques Nacionales

6,000

Completed

Finish digitalizing and georeferencing information on fungi, algae and lichens species.

2

Fundación Miguel Lillo

10,000

Completed

Digitalize information on species housed in the Lillo Collection, especially on insects and plants located in the Northeast region of Argentina.  

3

Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria

10,000

24-Feb-2010 to 1-Dec-2010

Digitalize information of Vascular Plants that grow in the Argentinean Patagonia region. 

Brazil

4

Universidade Estadual de Campinas

10,000

Completed

Complementing the data bank, including the input of existing species in the collection not yet included in the data bank.

Chile

5

Universidad de Santiago de Chile

10,000

Completed

Build a database of 16,158 species and a digital thesaurus. 

Colombia

6

Red Nacional de Jardines Botánicos

10,000

Completed

Promote the digitalization of approximately 1450 cards of useful plants species within 11 botanical gardens of the country

7

Instituto Alexander Von Humbolt

10,000

Completed

Create 250 species fact-sheets including biology, ecological and distributional information on Colombian Andean dung beetles, which will be available on the nodes of SIB and IABIN.

Panama

8

Smithsonian Tropical Investigation Institute Smithsonian de Investigaciones Tropicales - STRI

15,000

27-Jul-2009 to 27-Jun-2009

Digitalize and georeference the 1500 specimens of the tropical bee colection of Dr. Roubik.

Peru

9

Universidad Mayor de San Marcos

5,000

Completed

Provide information on the bats of Peru, facilitated by the availability and access to the Collection of mammals of the Museum of Natural History. 164 bat species from Peru, for which the metadata will be delivered quarterly in groups of 41 species

10

Centro de Ornitología y Biodiversidad - CORBIDI

8,250

5-Ago-2009 to 5-Jun-2010

Digitalize al least 1,000 reptiles, birds, aquatic invertebrate species and about 27,000 records of amphibian, bird and aquatic invertebrate specimens.

11

Universidad Ricardo Palma, Museo de Historia Natural

10,000

12-Jul-2008 to 12-Sep-2008

Digitize species of amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals.

Uruguay

12

Museo Nacional de Historia Natural y Antropología

10,000

Completed

Digitalize information of 379 amphibian species recorded in Argentina, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay, plus those of subtropical distribution in Brazil (including the batrachians from the states of Parana, Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina and southern São Paulo)

TOTAL CONTRIBUTION  GS/OAS: $

 

 

 

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