Botanical Inventory of a French Guiana Forest

法属圭亚那是法国在南美洲东北部的一个小省，仍然是世界上最大的热带荒野之一。索尔小村庄位于该部门的地理中心，周围环绕着133,600公顷的原始雨林，1975年被提议作为法国国家公园。该项目基于首席调查员自1976年以来的植物学探索，以及自1965年以来由他的法国合作者进行的植物学探索，旨在产生拟建公园的植物群。植物区系将使科学家和游客都能够识别公园的蕨类植物和开花植物。因此，该地区作为研究热带自然的活实验室将变得更有价值。它将促进在世界上物种最丰富的地区之一发现进化关系，并为整个南美洲东北部退化雨林的恢复提供所需的基线数据。该项目的另一个目标是通过让参观公园成为一种更具教育意义的体验来促进该地区的生态旅游。植物区系将用线条图和彩色照片进行很好的说明，植物识别的钥匙将尽可能方便用户使用。《植物志》的版本将以法语(由法国合作者编辑)和英语出版。

French Guiana, a small department of France in northeastern South America, still harbors one of the largest expanses of tropical wilderness in the world. Situated in the geographic center of the department, the small village of Saul is surrounded by 133,600 hectares of pristine rainforest proposed as a French national park in 1975. This project, which is based upon botanical explorations since 1976 by the principal investigator and since 1965 by his French collaborators, is designed to produce a flora of the proposed park. The flora will allow scientists and tourists alike to be able to identify the ferns and flowering plants of the park. As a result, the area will become more valuable as a living laboratory for the study of tropical nature. It will promote the discovery of evolutionary relationships in one of the most species rich areas in the world and provide the baseline data needed for the recuperation of degraded rainforests throughout northeastern South America. Another goal of the project is to promote ecotourism in the area by making a visit to the park a more educational experience. The flora will be well illustrated with line drawings and colored photographs, and the keys for plant identification will be made as user friendly as possible. Editions of the flora will be published in French (edited by the French collaborators) and English.