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

哈格雷夫斯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生物多样性的影响的关注，迫切需要准确识别浮游植物。目前用于鉴定美国东北海岸浮游生物硅藻的手册不足以满足这一需要，原因有几个：过时的分类法；分类群的包容性不足；描述和/或插图不足；地理适用性有限。这项研究将有助于完成浮游生物硅藻鉴定手册，包括硅藻生物学的一般方面(习性、生态学、生命周期、形态、生物地理)和已核实物种的完整区系和关键(分类学历史、形态的详细说明、物种间比较和区域分布)。将收集新的和最近的样品(从芬迪湾到切萨皮克湾；从河口到大陆架)，以补充现有的约1100张显微镜载玻片和1600份液体保存样品的数据库。目前，美国东北部还没有这样的手册。除了印刷的手册外，信息还将被纳入林奈的计算机化身份识别程序。这些数据还将输入与ANSP(费城)和CAS(旧金山)的数据管理系统兼容的适当数据管理系统，并尽可能与罗德岛大学的ARC/INFO地理信息系统兼容。预期该手册和数据将可供非专业人员使用；对各种海洋生物/海洋学研究具有刺激性和辅助性；可通过印刷和电子媒体查阅；能够在十年制范围内保持其实用性。

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identification of plankton diatoms of the northeast U.S. coast are inadequate to fill this need for several reasons: outdated taxonomy; inadequate inclusiveness of taxa; insufficient descriptors and/or illustrations; and limited geographic applicability.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.