Jepson Manual Project

本提案要求为参与编辑手稿的关键步骤的三名学术工作人员提供薪金补贴，并为编写《杰普森手册：加州维管植物》提供某些其他最后费用。《杰普森手册》是一本全面的、权威的、简明的、通俗易懂的、对美国植物最丰富的地区（约7800个低等植物分类群，或至少四分之一的北美洲除墨西哥以外的高等植物分类群）的最新记述。它筹备了8年，现在有180名撰稿作者和7名工作人员；它将于1992年底出版。杰普森手册计划具有全国性的意义，因为它在促进系统研究方面的作用，它与北美植物区系计划的密切关系，加利福尼亚植物分类群的丰富性和复杂关系（其中许多是特有的或濒临灭绝的），以及它开发和利用了一些新的信息。单一的，价格合理的卷被设计为系统信息的开发者和分发者（系统植物学家）与高度多样化的，该信息的潜在用户之间的桥梁。

This proposal requests salary subvention for three academic staff members involved in the critical step of editing manuscripts and certain other final costs of preparing The Jepson Manual: Vascular Plants of California. The Jepson Manual is a comprehensive, authoritative, concise, accessible, and up-to-date treatment of the botanically richest region in the United States (ca. 7,800 infrageneric taxa, or at least a quarter of the higher plant taxa of North America outside Mexico). It has been in preparation for eight years and now involves 180 contributing authors and a staff of seven; it will be published by the end of 1992. The Jepson Manual Project is of national significance because of its role in stimulating systematic research, its close relationship to the Flora of North America Project, the richness and complex relationships of Californian plant taxa (many of which are endemic or endangered), and its development and use of several new kinds of information. The single, reasonable priced volume is designed as a bridge between the developers and dispensers of systematic information (systematic botanists) and the highly diverse, potential users of that information.