Support for Herbarium at the San Diego Natural History Museum

圣地亚哥自然历史博物馆标本馆收藏了125,000多个标本，其中包括200多个模式标本。这一藏品是代表美国西南部和下加利福尼亚州植物区系的重要植物库。负责标本馆的杰弗里·莱文博士计划在这些植物标本的物理管理方面进行重要的改进。新的存储柜将安装在紧凑的存储轨道上，从而在不牺牲接触标本的情况下提供更高效和安全的存储。拟议的紧凑型存储将为数十年的藏品增长提供空间。拟议的收集改进代表了管理一项重要研究资源的长期计划。研究生物学家的社区依赖于这样的标本收藏作为参考材料。无数关于生态学、进化论、生物地理学和全球变化的研究将从这些收集中获得关键信息。未来几代人的研究有赖于像这样的收藏品的照顾和增长。

The Herbarium of the San Diego Museum of Natural History contains more than 125,000 specimens, including more than 200 type specimens. This collection is an important repository of plants representing the flora of the southwest U.S. and Baja California. Dr. Geoffrey Levin, Curator in charge of the Herbarium, has planned important improvements in the physical curation of these plant specimens. New storage cabinets will be installed on compact storage rails, thereby providing more efficient and safe storage without sacrificing access to the specimens. The proposed compact storage will provide room for decades of collection growth. The proposed collection improvement represents a long-term plan for managing an important research resource. The community of research biologists depends on herbarium collections such as this for reference materials. Countless studies in ecology, evolution, biogeography, and global change will draw crucial information from this collection. Future generations of research depend on the care and growth of collections such as this.