REU: Flora of North America North of Mexico

植物群北美是一个长期的多研究者 旨在提供一致和可比信息的项目 关于维管植物（蕨类植物、针叶树和开花植物） 产于北美洲墨西哥以北， 计算机化的形式。 该项目是一个合作的努力， 20多个机构的植物学家和其他科学家 在美国和加拿大;密苏里州植物园 作为该项目的组织中心， Nancy Morin担任召集编辑。 第一阶段的供资 这项工作将支持为《生物多样性公约》编写分类综合报告， 估计有600种蕨类植物和针叶树， 由三十位植物专家贡献;支持 莎草科博士后研究 评估当前用途和未来需求的讲习班 植物区系数据;和初步制定一个国家 植物区系信息的计算机数据库。 所有植物类群的分类学研究将需要关键的 对标本的检查以及文献的综合 并将涉及一个两级审查，由编辑委员会， 由植物区系学的顶尖研究者和校外专家共同完成。 因此，关于维管植物的权威信息， 美国大陆、加拿大和格陵兰岛（估计 包括17，000个物种），描述和评估其完整 变化的范围，将可在可比和充分 第一次用可回收的形式。计算机化的数据库是 被设想为一个可扩展的关系数据库， 关于植物的特征，允许相关性和 地理和其他物理参数的分析。的 出版植物区系和建立计算机数据库将有利于 系统学和进化生物学研究，包括 生态学和地理学，并将作为实际参考 在生物学、野生动物和土地管理、园艺、 农业和保护生物学。

Flora North America is a long-term multi-investigator project designed to provide consistent and comparable information about the vascular plants (ferns, conifers, and flowering plants) of North America north of Mexico in both published and computerized form. The project is a cooperative effort among botanists and other scientists in more than twenty institutions in the United States and Canada; the Missouri Botanical Garden serves as the organizational center for the project, with Dr. Nancy Morin as convening editor. Funding of the first stage of work will support preparation of taxonomic synthesis for the estimated 600 species of ferns and conifers, with treatments contributed by thirty botanical specialists; support for postdoctoral research on the Cyperaceae (sedge) family; conduct of a workshop to evaluate current uses and future requirements for floristic data; and initial development of a national computer database of floristic information. Taxonomic study of all plant groups will entail critical examination of specimens as well as synthesis of the literature and will involve a two-tiered review, by an Editorial Board of leading floristics researchers and by extramural experts. Consequently, authoritative information on the vascular plants of continental United States, Canada, and Greenland (estimated to include 17,000 species), describing and evaluating their full range of variation, will be available in comparable and fully retrievable form for the first time. The computerized database is envisioned as an expandable, relational repository of data on characteristics about the plants, allowing correlation and analysis with geographical and other physical parameters. The published floras and developing computer database will benefit research in systematics and evolutionary biology, including ecology and biogeography, and will serve as practical references in biology, wildlife and land management, horticulture, agriculture, and conservation biology.