Support for Herbarium at the San Diego Natural History Museum

圣地亚哥自然历史博物馆植物标本馆 包含超过125，000个标本，其中包括200多个 模式标本 这个集合是一个重要的知识库， 代表美国西南部和巴哈地区植物群的植物 加州。 Geoffrey Levin博士， 植物标本馆，已经计划在物理上进行重要的改进， 对这些植物标本进行管理。 新的储藏柜将 安装在紧凑的存储轨道上，从而提供更多 高效、安全的存储，同时又不牺牲 标本 拟议的紧凑型储存空间将为 几十年的收藏增长。 拟议的收集改进是一项长期的 管理重要的研究资源。 社区 生物学家的研究依赖于植物标本馆的收藏， 这是参考资料。 无数的生态学研究， 进化，地理学和全球变化将对人类的未来 从这个集合的信息。 未来几代研究 都依赖于这样的收藏品的保护和增长。

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.