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NERC Reference : NE/H021817/1

Global Biodiversity Resource for Monocot Plants (eMonocot)

Grant Award

Principal Investigator:
Dr P Wilkin, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, The Herbarium
Co-Investigator:
Dr A Barker, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, Biodiversity Informatics
Co-Investigator:
Dr WJ Baker, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, Comparative Plant and Fungal Biology
Co-Investigator:
Dr DA Simpson, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, Identification and Naming
Science Area:
Terrestrial
Overall Classification:
Terrestrial
ENRIs:
Natural Resource Management
Global Change
Biodiversity
Science Topics:
Systematics & Taxonomy
Conservation Ecology
Community Ecology
Environmental Informatics
Abstract:
This is a proposal to build a novel biodiversity web-resource for monocot plants. The site would grow to contain a taxonomic treatment of all monocots with rich associated biodiversity information; it would also be a platform on which new taxonomy can be published and new biological information collected and collated. Monocot plants constitute approximately 20% (70,000 species) of all higher plants and include numerous groups of the highest conservation, ecological and economic importance (for example grasses, sedges, orchids, palms and aroids). The web-resource will be based on an existing checklist prepared by consortium members. Considerable information content will be provided by the consortium, but also by the project providing the tools for the world community of monocot taxonomists to contribute in their areas of expertise. Though the major deliverable of the project will be the first Web-based taxonomy of the monocots, all the ICT tools developed in the project will be fully generic and applicable to other groups of plants. We shall also make sure that they can be used in zoological taxonomy (which have different nomenclatural requirements) by testing them on an animal group for which a Web taxonomy is already available. Finally, we shall work with the Encyclopedia of Life project to ensure that the content we generate can be used by the very broadest spectrum of end users. If our project is successful we shall have revolutionised the way the core of biodiversity science is organised and accessed. We will have radically changed the type of fundamental and applied biodiversity science that is possible and we argue will have made a major contribution to one of NERC's seven major thematic priorities, the science of biodiversity.
Period of Award:
1 Nov 2010 - 31 Aug 2014
Value:
£1,031,103 Lead Split Award
Authorised funds only
NERC Reference:
NE/H021817/1
Grant Stage:
Completed
Scheme:
Consortiums (FEC)
Grant Status:
Closed
Programme:
Consortiums

This grant award has a total value of £1,031,103  

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FDAB - Financial Details (Award breakdown by headings)

DI - Other CostsIndirect - Indirect CostsDA - InvestigatorsDA - Estate CostsDI - StaffDI - T&S
£27,081£445,989£34,226£75,114£437,971£10,723

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