Completion of Sonoran Desert and ASU Lichen Databases

在标本馆管理中使用数据库已成为组织和分析大型收藏品的重要工具。首先，该提案侧重于完成亚利桑那州立大学地衣植物标本室的数据库，该数据库包含约105,000条记录，其中约一半目前已建立数据库。这些亚利桑那州立大学的藏品中有很大一部分(约30,000件)与大索诺兰沙漠地衣植物群项目有关，该项目涉及来自15个国家的60多名合作者。这些合作者中的大多数人参加了过去12年进行的16次主要实地考察中的一次或多次，并积累了额外的约70,000件藏品。第二个主要目标是将这些记录存入数据库，并将它们添加到第一个数据库的30,000个子集中，从而创建第二个专用于索诺拉沙漠地衣植物群的数据库，记录约100,000条。除了能够通过地衣社区访问这两个数据库(目前可以通过我们的主页http://mgd.nacse.org/Arizona-及其链接获得)，更大的社区(地衣研究所和亚利桑那州立大学的科学家、K-12教育界、资源管理人员和自然资源保护者)将可以通过亚利桑那州立大学正在进行的名为“将我们的研究遗产联网”的数据库项目来访问这些数据库，该项目由亚利桑那州立大学环境研究中心管理。一旦建成，这些数据库将作为亚利桑那州立大学LTER站点长期数据库活动的一部分进行维护。

The use of databases in herbarium management has become a vital tool in the organization and analysis of large collections. First the proposal focuses on completing a database for the ASU lichen herbarium comprising c. 105,000 records, of which approximately half are currently databased. A large fraction of these ASU collections (c. 30,000) are relevant to the greater Sonoran Desert Lichen Flora Project, which involves over 60 collaborators from 15 countries. Most of these collaborators have participated on one or more of the 16 major field expeditions conducted over the past 12 years and have accumulated an additional c. 70,000 collections. A second major objective is to database these records and add them to the 30,000 subset from the first database thereby creating a second database specific to the Sonoran Desert Lichen Flora of c. 100,000 records. In addition to being able to access these two databases through the lichenological community (as is currently available through our homepage http://mgd.nacse.org/Arizona - and its links), the databases will be accessible to a much larger community (LTER and ASU scientists, K-12 educational community, resource managers and conservationists) through an ongoing ASU database project entitled "Networking our Research Legacy" and administered by the ASU Center for Environmental Studies. Once constructed the databases will be maintained as part o the long-term database activities at the ASU LTER site.