Support for Herbarium at the San Diego Natural History Museum

圣地亚哥自然历史博物馆的植物标本室有超过125000个标本，其中包括200多个模式标本。这个收藏是一个重要的植物库，代表了美国西南部和下加利福尼亚州的植物群。负责植物标本室的馆长杰弗里·莱文博士计划对这些植物标本的物理管理进行重大改进。新的存储柜将安装在紧凑的存储轨道上，从而提供更有效和安全的存储，而不会牺牲获取标本的机会。拟议的紧凑型存储将为数十年的收藏增长提供空间。建议的收集改进代表了管理重要研究资源的长期计划。研究生物学家的社区依赖于像这样的植物标本馆收藏作为参考材料。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藏中获得重要的信息。未来几代的研究依赖于这样的收藏的照顾和增长。

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.