Support for the Arizona State University Herbarium

亚利桑那州立大学植物标本馆保存了大约185,000个植物标本。它是西南部最大的草本植物之一，特别丰富的美国西南部和墨西哥北部的一般收藏。标本馆中的标本对任何对西南部本地植被的分类学、生态学或保护感兴趣的人来说都是一个重要的资源，它持有的仙人掌和地衣具有国际重要性。在过去的20年里，收藏增长非常迅速，积累了大量积压的标本。存放藏品的柜子也已满或接近饱和，无法容纳积压的约40 000株维管束植物、25 000个地衣和1 000个化石，这些植物和化石需要加工并进入藏品。该项目将提供资金购买标准标本标本馆、地衣和化石橱柜，以容纳积压的标本，以及两名兼职本科生的工资，以帮助消除积压的标本。在项目为期三年的时间里，标本馆将：1)处理所有新的维管植物标本；2)减少40%的积压维管植物标本；3)将全部积压的化石加入收藏；4)准备所有部分处理的地衣包供加入并与其他草本植物交换。这些活动将使亚利桑那州立大学植物标本馆成为更有价值和更容易获得的资源。

The Arizona State University Herbarium contains approximately 185,000 preserved plant specimens. It is one of the largest herbaria in the Southwest and is especially rich in general collections of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico. The specimens in the Herbarium comprise a vital resource for anyone interested in the systematics, ecology or conservation of the native vegetation of the Southwest, and its holdings of cacti and lichens are of international importance. Over the last 20 years, the collection has grown very rapidly and a large backlog of specimens has accumulated. The cabinets that contain the collection are also at or near capacity and would be unable to contain the backlog of approximately 40,000 vascular plants, 25,000 lichens and 1,000 fossils that need to be processed and accessioned into the collection. This project will provide funds to purchase standard herbarium, lichen and fossil cabinets to contain the backlogged specimens, as well salary for two part-time undergraduates to help in eliminating the backlog. During the three-year duration of the project, the herbarium will: 1) process all new vascular plant specimens; 2) reduce the backlog of vascular plants by 40%; 3) accession the entire backlog of fossils into the collection; 4) prepare all the partially processed lichen packets for accessioning and exchange with other herbaria. These activities will make the Arizona State University Herbarium a much more valuable and readily available resource.