Survey of the Marine Plankton diatoms of the U.S. Northeast Coast

美国东北海岸海洋浮游生物硅藻调查

• 批准号: 9400669
• 负责人: Paul Hargraves
• 金额: $ 24.96万
• 依托单位: University of Rhode Island
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1994
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1994-07-01 至 1999-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9400669&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Survey; Marine; Plankton; diatoms; U.S.

Hargraves 9400669 With scientific, political and public concern about effects of coastal pollution and global climate change on marine species biodiversity, there is an urgent need for accurate identification of phytoplakton. Currently used manuals for identification of plankton diatoms of the northeast U.S. coast are inadequate to fill this need for several reasons: outdated taxonomy; inadequate inclusiveness of taxa; insufficient descriptors and/or illustrations; and limited geographic applicability. This research will permit completion of an identification manual for plankton diatoms, to include general aspects of diatom biology (habit, ecology, life cycles, morphology, biogeography) and a complete flora of and key to verified species (taxonomic history, detailed illustrations of morphology, interspecies comparisons and regional distribution). New and recent samples (Bay of Fundy to Chesapeake Bay; estuarine to continental shelf) will be collected to supplement an existing data base of about 1100 microscope slides and 1600 liquid preserved samples. There is currently no such manual in existence for the northeast U.S.. In addition to a printed manual information will be incorporated into the Linnaeus computerized identification program. The data will also be entered into a suitable data management system compatible with those at the ANSP (Philadelphia) and the CAS (San Francisco), and as much as feasible with the ARC/INFO GIS system at the University of Rhode Island. It is expected that the manual and data will be: usable by non-specialists; stimulating and adjunct to a variety of marine biological/oceanographic studies; accessible via printed and electronic media; and able to maintain its usefulness on a decadal scale.

Hargraves 9400669 随着科学、政治和公众对沿海污染和全球气候变化对海洋物种生物多样性影响的关注，迫切需要准确识别植片藻。 目前使用的手册识别浮游硅藻的美国东北部海岸是不足以满足这一需求的几个原因：过时的分类;分类群的包容性不足;描述符和/或插图不足;和有限的地理适用性。 这项研究将有助于完成浮游硅藻鉴定手册，其中包括硅藻生物学的一般方面（习性、生态学、生命周期、形态学、地理学）以及已核实物种的完整植物群和检索表（分类历史、形态学详细说明、种间比较和区域分布）。 将收集新的和最近的样本（芬迪湾到切萨皮克湾;河口到大陆架），以补充现有的约1100个显微镜载玻片和1600个液体保存样本的数据库。 目前美国东北部还没有这样的手册。 除了印刷的手册信息将被纳入林奈计算机识别程序。 这些数据还将输入一个与ANSP（费城）和CAS（旧金山弗朗西斯科）的数据管理系统兼容的适当数据管理系统，并尽可能与罗得岛大学的ARC/INFO地理信息系统兼容。 预计手册和数据将：可供非专业人员使用;促进和辅助各种海洋生物学/海洋学研究;可通过印刷和电子媒体查阅;并能在十年内保持其效用。