Checklist of the Lope-Okanda Game Reserve, Gabon

位于加蓬中部的洛普-奥坎达野生动物保护区位于世界上物种最丰富的热带雨林之一，但该保护区所在的大猩猩与黑猩猩站(SEGC)在植物学上几乎是未知的。了解这个保护区的植物区系对于研究大猩猩和黑猩猩以及保护区的一般保护工作都很重要。这个项目将编制一份该地区植物的清单。该项目涉及在两年内三个月的四个时间段内在保护区进行密集收集。这一战略将确保覆盖所有物候期。由于保护区内和附近的道路网络，活动将集中在保护区的两个部分：沿着西侧与SOFORGA木材公司的工作相关的许多道路和小径，以及沿着从保护区东北角附近的SEGC研究站辐射出来的步道系统。实地采集的标本将在利伯维尔的加蓬国家植物标本馆以及密苏里州植物园的标本库和巴黎的Phanerogamie实验室进行干燥和鉴定。从保护区标本中获得的信息将被添加到密苏里州植物园的TROPICOS植物学数据库中，随后将得到一份清单。该数据库、核对清单和相关标本将在加蓬的花卉制作中具有特别的价值，该花卉于1961年由巴黎国家历史博物馆开始制作，目前只完成了三分之一。

The Lope-Okanda Game Reserve, in central Gabon, is set in one of the most species-rich tropical rainforests in the world, yet the Reserve, in which is located the Station d'Etude des Gorilles et Chimpanzes (SEGC), is virtually unknown botanically. A knowledge of the flora of this Reserve is important to the research on gorillas and chimpanzees and to general conservation work in the Reserve. This project will produce a checklist of the plants of the area. The project involves intensive collecting in the Reserve during four periods of three months over two years. This strategy will ensure coverage of all phenological periods. Because of the network of roads within and near the Reserve, activity would be concentrated in two portions of the Reserve; along the western side on the many roads and trails associated with the SOFORGA lumber company's work, and along the trail system radiating from the SEGC research station near the northeastern corner of the Reserve. Field-collected specimens would be dried at the National Herbarium of Gabon in Libreville and identified there as well as at the herbaria of the Missouri Botanical Garden and the Laboratoire de Phanerogamie, Paris. Information obtained from the Reserve specimens will be added to the TROPICOS botanical database at the Missouri Botanical Garden, and a checklist will subsequently be derived. The database, the checklist, and associated specimens will be of particular value in the production of Flore du Gabon, commenced in 1961 by the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, and now only one-third complete.