Twelve projects were selected to receive a total of €365K in awards from among the 82 proposals received in response to the 2007–2008 Request for Proposals. When complete, the projects will together provide information to the GBIF network on more than 75,000 species and 1.8 million species-occurrence data records. In addition, they will make available 2 software tools (an online geo-referencing service and a workflow for extracting biodiversity information from publications [both legacy and newly published] and make them available in a database format).
No. | Project Coordinator | Host Institution | Title | Amount € |
1. | Daniel Janzen | Univ. of Pennsylvania, USA | Inventory of all Caterpillars and their Food Plants and Parasitoids of Area de Conservacion Guanacaste, Costa Rica |
8,792 |
2. | Douglas Yanega | University of California - Riverside, USA | Digitisation of Bee Specimen Records from University of California Riverside |
33,268 |
3. | Matt von Konrat | Field Museum, USA | Early Land Plants Today: Uniting Liverwort Taxonomy, Nomenclature and Geography |
41,265 |
4. | Fabian Haas | African Insect Science for Food and Health, Kholodny Institute of Botany, Kenya
| Tsetse flies and Sandflies of medical and economic importance in East Africa |
25,410 |
5. | Reed Beaman | University of Florida, USA | A system for increasing the georeferencing quantity and quality of all GBIF-mediated occurrence records |
46,081 |
6. | Brent Mishler | University of California – Berkeley, USA | GBIF data content development from the Consortium of California Herbaria: Advancing the international effort to monitor and control non-native taxa |
42,510 |
7. | Zhi-Qiang and Donat Agosti | Landcare Research, New Zealand | Extracting Nomenclatural Data, Species Descriptions and Collecting Events from Legacy Publications: The Zootaxa-TaxonX-ZooBank Project |
50,000 |
8. | Desmond Foley | Smithsonian Institution, USA | Enhancement of GBIF as a resource for mosquito biodiversity and vector-borne disease studies |
40,681 |
9. | David Minter | CABI Bioscience, UK Center, Egham, UK | Project to Digitize Fungal Occurrence Data from Cyrillic Alphabet Sources |
34,000
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10. | Jaime Ceballos | Instituto de Ciencas Naturales, Bogota, Colombia | Digitalization and release of data and images from the collections of the Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, and elaboration of data cards for the catalogue of organisms’ names |
40,000 |
11. | Wolfgang Lorenz | Faunistics and Environmental Planning, Hoermannstr 4, Tutzing, Germany | Evaluation and cleaning of data on ground beetles (Insecta Coleoptera Carabidae s.l.) accessible through the GBIF Data Portal (2007) |
3,000 |
12. | Randall Garcia | INBio, Costa Rica | Digitization and Analysis of Information Relevant for the Implementation of the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation in Central America |
40,600 |
