Checklist of the Lope-Okanda Game Reserve, Gabon

位于加蓬中部的Lope-Okanda野生动物保护区， 世界上物种最丰富的热带雨林， 保护区，其中位于站d 'Etude des Gorilles et 黑猩猩（SEGC），几乎是未知的植物学。 知识 该保护区植物群的研究对研究 大猩猩和黑猩猩的保护工作， 保护区 该项目将制作一份植物清单， 该地区 该项目涉及在保护区内进行密集收集 在两年中的四个时期，每三个月。 这一战略 将确保覆盖所有的物候期。 因为 保护区内和附近的道路网络，活动将是 集中在保护区的两个部分;沿着西侧 在许多道路和小径与SOFORGA木材 公司的工作，并沿着轨道系统辐射SEGC 在保护区东北角附近的研究站。 野外采集的标本将在国家植物标本馆干燥 在利伯维尔的加蓬共和国大使， 密苏里州植物园和植物园的植物标本馆 在巴黎的一家餐厅。 从储备金获得的资料 标本将被添加到TROPICOS植物数据库， 密苏里州植物园，并随后将清单 推导 数据库、检查表和相关样本 将在加蓬花卉的生产中具有特别的价值， 1961年由国家自然历史博物馆开始， 巴黎，现在只完成了三分之一。

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.