Sonora Desert Lichen Flora

索诺拉沙漠地衣植物区系

• 批准号: 9201111
• 负责人: Thomas Nash
• 金额: $ 44.75万
• 依托单位: Arizona State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 1992
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1992-08-01 至 1997-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9201111&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Sonora; Desert; Lichen; Flora

A cooperative, international investigation of the lichens (both micro-and macrolichens) of the greater Sonoran Desert region (Arizona, southern California, Baja California, Sonora and Northern Sinaloa) is proposed. The lichen taxa will be revised with near monographic precision for the purpose of writing a modern Flora (for systematists and other professional botanists - with both English and Spanish editions) and popular manual (for naturalists and conservationists). Because the Sonoran Desert includes a significant number of Class I areas (Clean Air Act) and because lichens are excellent indicators of air pollution, it is anticipated that the flora will have considerable utility to land managers in both the U.S. Forest Service and National Park Services (both U.S. and Mexican). Liason is established with four institutions within Mexico and collaboration and with over 40 prominent lichen systematists worldwide. A second purpose of the proposal is to improve the scientific infrastructure of Mexico so that lichenological studies dealing with lichen biodiversity and conservation issues (e.g. preservation of coastal fog zone communities) can be pursued there.

对大索诺兰沙漠地区（亚利桑那州，南加州，下加利福尼亚州，索诺拉和北锡那罗亚州）的地衣（包括微型和大型地衣）进行合作的国际调查。为了编写一本现代植物志（供系统学家和其他专业植物学家使用——有英文和西班牙文两种版本）和一本通俗手册（供自然学家和自然保护主义者使用），地衣分类群将以近乎专著的精度进行修订。由于索诺兰沙漠包括大量的一级地区（清洁空气法案），并且由于地衣是空气污染的极好指标，预计该植物群将对美国林业局和国家公园管理局（美国和墨西哥）的土地管理者具有相当大的效用。联络中心与墨西哥境内的四个机构建立了合作关系，并与全球40多名著名的地衣系统学家合作。该提案的第二个目的是改善墨西哥的科学基础设施，以便在那里进行地衣生物多样性和保护问题（例如保护沿海雾区群落）的地衣学研究。