Development of a Catalogue of North American Bryophytes at the New York Botanical Garden

9632600他们的纽约植物园（NYBG）已获得资助，以支持两个标本编目，以帮助完成北美苔藓植物目录。该项目将涉及从纽约植物园brancete标本馆收集96，000份北美brancete标本。NSF支持的工作人员将对62，400个标本（65%）进行编目，NYBG支持的工作人员将使用NYBG标本数据库应用程序CASSIA在两年内对剩余的33，600个标本进行编目。纽约植物园的植物标本馆是西半球最大的植物标本馆，大约有60万个标本。长期计划要求对整个植物群进行数据库化，但将首先对北美的植物群进行数据库化，以加快为北美植物群项目编制植物群卷。两个项目同步进行对双方都很有利。纽约植物园的植物标本是编制植物群的原始数据的最大单一来源。该项目的参与者（作者、审稿人和编辑）将能够通过互联网访问NYBG北美苔藓植物目录，以选择标本借用进行形态学研究，确定分类群的分布，并获得生境和模式标本数据。 该项目不仅是纽约植物园和北美植物群项目之间的合作，也是系统学生态学研究收集计划和国家科学基金会数据库活动计划之间的合作，这两个项目共同资助了该项目。

9632600 Theirs The New York Botanical Garden (NYBG) has been funded to support two specimen cataloguers to help complete the North American Bryophytes Catalogue. The project will involve databasing 96,000 North American bryophyte specimens from the NYBG bryophyte herbarium. NSF-supported staff would catalogue 62,400 specimens (65%), and NYBG-supported staff will catalogue the remaining 33,600 over a two-year period, using the NYBG specimen databasing application CASSIA. The NYBG bryophyte herbarium the largest in the western hemisphere, with approximately 600,000 specimens. Long-term plans call for databasing the entire bryophyte collection, but the North American collections will be done first to expedite preparation of the bryophyte volume for the Flora of North America project. The synchronization of the two projects will be very advantageous to both. The NYBG bryophyte holdings represent the largest single source of raw data for the preparation of the Flora. Participants in the project (authors, reviewers and editors) will be able to access the NYBG North American Bryophytes Catalogue via the Internet to select specimens to borrow for morphological study, to determine distributions of taxa, and to obtain habitat and type specimen data. This project is not only a partnership between the New York Botanical Garden and the Flora of North America project, but also between the Research Collections in Systematics & Ecology Program and the Database Activities Program of the NSF, which have co-funded the project.