RAMHSS: Computerization of Hawaiian Vascular Collections and Accomplishment of Specific Curatorial Projects in Herbarium Pacificum

太平洋植物博物馆是夏威夷主教自然历史博物馆的一部分，它收藏了世界上最重要的太平洋盆地植物科学收藏品之一。长期以来，植物标本馆一直是热带植物学的研究中心，也是专业和业余植物学家收藏的宝库。基于这一收集的研究提供了对植物如何在被数千英里水域隔开的海洋岛屿上以及沿着岛屿山脉进化的独特理解，在这些岛屿上，各种栖息地类型被压缩在相对较短的距离上。至关重要的是，这些收藏品必须及时得到整理和提供，以供研究。这为研究人员的结论提供了最完整的基础，并为收集者提供了选择最重要的采样区域所需的数据。自然历史收藏品，如太平洋植物标本馆，为生物研究提供了独特的资源，维护它们是科学界持续优先考虑的问题。

The Herbarium Pacificum is part of Hawaii's Bishop Museum of Natural History, and it houses one of the world's most important scientific collections of plants from the Pacific Basin. The Herbarium has long served as a research center for tropical botany, and as a repository for the collections of professional and amateur botanists alike. Research based on this collection provides a unique understanding of how plants have evolved on ocean islands isolated by thousands of miles of water, and along island mountain chains, where a diversity of habitat types are compressed along relatively short distances. It is critically important that these collections be curated and made available for research in a timely manner. This gives researchers the most complete basis for their conclusions, and gives collectors the data they need for choosing the most important areas for sampling. Natural history collections such as the Herbarium Pacificum provide unique resources for biological research, and maintaining them is an ongoing priority for the scientific community.