Survey, Collection, Identification, Documentation and conservation of Plant Resources; Repository of plant specimens

Survey, Collection, Identification, Documentation and conservation of Plant Resources; Repository of plant specimens

THE MISSION To acquire, assimilate and disseminate primary information on the occurrence, distribution and utilization of, and traditional knowledge associated with, wild plant diversity of the country, and maintain linkages with various peer institutions and stake-holders, To conduct research which will cover wide range of issues relating to the plant diversity of India, and to supply information relating to plants for their sustainable utilization for agriculture, horticulture and forestry; trade, industry and medicine, To serve as repository of germ-plasm of wild economic, rare, endemic and threatened plant species in Indian Botanic Garden, Botanic Garden of Indian Republic, associated botanic gardens, seed banks and cryo-banks,

To serve as custodian of the national reference collection of plants in internationally recognized herbaria / artifacts in museum and to conserve and preserve botanical archives, To characterize and document all forms of plant diversity based primarily on morphological, anatomical and palynological data, and additionally on molecular data, To build capacity in taxonomy of all groups of plants, and herbarium and museum methods, and carryout awareness and education programmes, To assess and analyze the anthropogenic pressures on plant diversity and to suggest measures for mitigation, and To develop database, both digital and analogue, on various aspects of Indian flora to facilitate informed management and policy decisions.

THRUST AREAS AND RECOMMENDED RESEARCH PRIORITIES THRUST AREAS AND RESEARCH PRIORITIES Inventorying of endemic, rare and threatened plant species Studies on fragile ecosystems and protected areas National Database on Herbarium and live collection and on plant distribution and nomenclature Develop ecological model to predict the impact of anthropgenic activities on species/ecosystem

USE OF GIS IN RESEARCH AT BSI Contd.

CASE STUDIES Red listing of Orchids of Eastern Himalaya, Western Ghats and Arunachal Pradesh as per IUCN criteria Biodiversity Assessment through long term monitoring plots in Indian Himalaya Species Distribution mapping and Digital Herbarium Mobile application for Botanic Garden

RED LISTING OF SPECIES AS PER IUCN CRITERIA

Red listing of Orchids of Eastern Himalaya as per IUCN Criteria Study Area Illustration copyright Bob Diven Map according to Chowdhery & Murty (2000).

Red listing of orchids of Arunachal Pradesh as per IUCN criteria

The IUCN Categories Extinct (EX) Extinct in the Wild (EW) Red List Criteria + Possibly Extinct CR(PE) or CR(PEW) Adequate data Threatened categories Critically Endangered (CR) Endangered (EN) Vulnerable (VU) Extinction Risk All species Evaluated Near Threatened (NT) Least Concern (LC) Data Deficient (DD) _ Not Evaluated (NE)

Red List Criteria Criteria: A. Declining population (past, present and/or projected) B. Geographic range size, and fragmentation, decline or fluctuations C. Small population size and fragmentation, decline, or fluctuations D. Very small population or very restricted distribution E. Quantitative analysis of extinction risk (e.g., Population Viability Analysis) Criterion B: B1- Extent of Occurrence B2 Area of Occupancy Criterion D: Number of mature individuals

Red List Criteria EOO: ±6968 km 2 AOO: < 10 km 2 Severely fragmented and with a projected decline of mature individuals, being sparsely distributed

SPECIES DISTRIBUTION AND DIGITAL HERBARIUM

GIS Studies maps were on the prepared Orchids for of Maharashtra 101 orchid species with ecological and they were aspects, assessed as population per IUCN regional status of guidelines endemics and GIS mapping Orchid species richness in the different PAs in Maharashtra

An assessment of Orchid Diversity of Central-Western Ghats: Goa Madei WLS Bondla WLS Mollem WLS Netravali WLS Cotigaon WLS DEM map of Goa

MOBILE APPLICATION FOR BOTANIC GARDEN

GIS based Mobile Application in AJC Bose Indian Botanic Garden, BSI, Howrah UTILITIES For the Visitors: Locating the important and curious trees of the garden. Planning a time economy trail inside the garden. Locating the public amenities. For the Researchers: Filtering the plant species according to their taxonomic status. Identification of plants based on the pre fid data tagged with geo-coordinates.

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FUTURE OF GIS IN BSI Ecological niche modelling Environment Impact Assessment Planning and Mapping Field Survey tours Preparation of Field Guide and Manuals Conversion of existing herbarium data on species occurrence in geographical data format Field Survey and Data Collection Use of RS and GIS in species identification

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