Elaboração de um banco de dados georreferenciados do acervo do Herbário DDMS para a gestão da biodiversidade

Abstract

The use of geotechnology has great utility to the conservation of biodiversity, due its capacity to collect special data about species distributions, also allows the production and management of georeferenced information which can contribute as subsidy to the development of a wide range of scientific studies. In this sense, the present work has as goal to structure a SIG georeferenced database, to store and organize floristic surveys recorded in the Dourados-MS (DDMS) Herbarium’s collection, of Federal University of Grande Dourados. Such proposition attends the need to promote a wider access to the cataloged data by the users, through online consult, so as the use of the collection for the realization of integrated spatial analysis. The methodology used on the work included the employment of geoprocessing routines involving treatment, storing and spatial data analysis techniques, processed through the SIG Quantum Gis 1.8 application. The research’s result consisted in the implementation of a georeferenced database structure which was used as the repository to store herbarium’s registration data. The georeferenced structure allowed the storage of 1.316 records of floristic collections associated to 585 sampled species, which corresponds to 27% of herbarium’s total collection. The result of the test on registration data of map server I3GEO, maintained by Ministry of Environment through upload, showed the various advantages of online availability of these data.