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Outline
- Grants awarded: 2013-2017
- FBIP bursaries awarded to students & other
support
- Types of projects & data outputs
- Some qualitative examples of outcomes
Analysis of FBIP funded projects Lita Pauw & Michelle Hamer - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Analysis of FBIP funded projects Lita Pauw & Michelle Hamer - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Foundational Biodiversity Information Programme (FBIP) Analysis of FBIP funded projects Lita Pauw & Michelle Hamer Outline Grants awarded: 2013-2017 FBIP bursaries awarded to students & other support Types of projects &
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Small Grants & Surveys: 2013-2017
10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80
2013 2014 2015 2016 2017*
Proposals received: 292 Successful: 94
Unsuccessful Awarded
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Large Grants: 2013-2017
2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20
2013 2014 2015 2016 2017*
Unsuccessful Awarded
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Grants awarded per Institution
5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50
SU ARC UP Museums RU UCT UFS SAEON SANBI WITS SAIAB UJ UKZN NGOs NMMU UM UWC CPUT EKZNW NWU UNIVEN CSIR DUT MRC NZG SMU TUT UNISA UFH UL
Unsuccessful Awarded
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Age at which grantholders received award (all years combined)
5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45
<30 30-40 41-50 51-60 61+ Number Age
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FBIP bursaries awarded to students (2014-2017)
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Other support
Postgraduate Students
- FBIP grants supported 41 postgraduate student projects
- Travel support for students to attend the annual BIMF-FBIP Forum and
Postgraduate Forum (20/year)
- Travel support for 13 students to attend the iBOL conference in 2017
Technical assistants
- 19 student assistants contracted and trained through funded projects
Young researchers
- Opportunity for 14 young researchers to resubmit a revised proposal
Training workshops
- Several training workshops presented annually during the BIMF-FBIP
Forum
- SPECIFY training in October 2016
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Types of projects funded relative to the global diversity of the group
10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80
Viruses & Bacteria Fungi Vertebrates Invertebrates Plants
% of Total
% of global species % of projects funded
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Type of data outputs
5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40
Surveys - 1 group DNA Barcoding Phylogeny / taxonomy Data mobilization Surveys - multitaxa Population genetics Citizen science & community involvement
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Summary of expected outputs
Total expenditure: R35 million
- Specimen / occurrence records: 520 000 covering 9 000
localities and 22 000 species (20% of SA’s species)
- DNA barcoded: 3 700 species and 8 000 specimens
- Descriptions of 20 + microbe communities from soil, roots
- Species pages: 2 400 species pages
- Species discovered: 600 species revised, >20 new
- Postgraduate students bursaries: 59
- Papers published: estimated 170 (71 published to date)
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Some qualitative examples of outcomes
- Seakeys project held a workshop which
brought researchers and bioprospecting investigators together. Highlighted that an endemic seaslug has led to the discovery of a compound with promising results against
- esophagal cancer.
- Providing new material for ongoing research
- n an endemic medicinal hemichordate
“worm” which has the most powerful compound ever tested against cancer in the
- US. This “worm” species, which was previously
considered scarce, is caught as bycatch in the demersal research trawls on which the team has been supporting monitoring work.
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Some qualitative examples of outcomes
- Discovery of new species: BioGaps
project – large number of new species (eg. 15 grasshoppers, several plants) in Karoo which is under mining threats.
- Training of tour guides from Ndumo
Game Reserve to find and identify frogs.
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