Herbarium Recuration Interim Report - Research

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5. Next Steps 5.1. Anticipated work in project year 3 During project year 3 German Lopez will have sufficient experience to continue and complete the herbarium re-curation. At least 40 days (20%) of his time in year 3 will be allocated to this task, it is anticipated that he should be able to finish by the end of project in March 2012. In case of queries he can call upon expertise from RBGE. 5.2. Potential Issues 5.2.1. Classification Following completion of this re-curation project the angiosperm families and genera in the herbarium will follow the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group III classification (2009), fern families will follow Smith et al. (2006) and species names will follow ‘The Checklist of the Vascular Plants of Belize’ (Balick et al., 2000). However many of the species concepts utilised by Balick et al. (2000) are no longer accepted, thus following this first re-curation effort it is recommended that Forest Department in cooperation with the Environmental Research Institute continue to update species and generic names in the herbarium. The Savanna plant database currently being developed as part of this Darwin Project follows APG III and Smith et al. (2006) in its family delimitations. This database will be used to produce an index of accepted families, genera and their synonyms for use in the herbarium. It will also allow future updates of these indices to be produced as necessary. 5.2.2. Specimen folders As discussed in detail in Goodwin et al. (2010) the supplies of inner and outer covers available within the herbarium are low and not sufficient for the numbers of specimens currently in the herbarium; there are many inner covers that contain too many specimens. We had estimated that there are currently 660 outer folders and 1320 inner folders in the herbarium. The urgency of this issue will grow with the incorporation of recently mounted specimens into the herbarium and the repatriation of duplicates from overseas herbaria. The Darwin project has purchased 1,900 specimen folders for the BRH herbarium during year 2 to alleviate some of this pressure, however the the purchase of further supplies of archive quality outer and inner covers is still urgently recommended. More outer covers need to be purchased to allow genera to be placed separate genus covers as currently small genera share outer covers. 5.2.3. Specimen data capture, management and digitisation Specimens re-curated as part of this project have all been logged in the database developed by the project. Minimal data capture was performed for specimens not already registered in the database however the majority of specimens re-curated at BRH were already present in the database. This data set provides a perfect tool to aid the management of the herbarium. However the fine details of how this data will be managed by the Forest Department and the Environmental Research Institute needs to 16
e resolved. For example for this system to work specimens incorporated in the herbarium need to be continued to be logged in the database and any changes in specimen determinations or in nomenclature used in the herbarium must be updated in the database. The top copy of this database will be handed over to the Environmental Research Institute in early project year 3. 17
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