Assimilation of Orphaned Algal Collections into Herbarium Pacificum (BISH)

该项目将把雅培个人收藏的海藻转移到伯尼采P.毕晓普博物馆，以便后代的研究人员和教育工作者可以从中受益。 与这些标本相关的所有信息将被数据库化，并被吸收到博物馆的藻类收藏中。 主要造礁藻类的正确名称将得到解决。 由此产生的藻类收藏品将是世界上最准确、最全面的关于太平洋地区藻类生物多样性的文件。雅培收藏品载有数千份珍贵的海藻标本，记录了从库雷环礁到夏威夷岛和太平洋其他地方的夏威夷岛链的海洋造礁植物多样性。 研究、监测和资源管理工作，特别是与海洋入侵物种的威胁和其他环境变化有关的工作，是许多联邦、州和联邦政府的重要活动。 可靠的记录和准确的分类鉴定，重点是造礁珊瑚藻，对了解珊瑚礁生态系统的动态具有重要的生态意义。 这些数据对于整个太平洋地区的任何有效资源管理都至关重要。 该博物馆的虚拟藻类标本馆可直接上网，通过交互式数据平台可立即获得精确信息并作出快速反应。 教育的好处将包括一般的物种信息和图像，准确的已知分布，物种范围的可预测性，入侵物种的潜在传播和生态变化。

This project will transfer the Abbott personal collection of marine algae into the Bernice P. Bishop Museum's so that future generations of researchers and educators may benefit from them. All information associated with these specimens will be databased and assimilated into the Museum's algal collection. The correct names of the primary reef-building algae will be resolved. The resulting algal collection will be the most accurate comprehensive documentation of algal biodiversity of the Pacific region in the world.The Abbott Collection contains many thousands of valuable seaweed specimens that document the marine reef-building floristic biodiversity of the Hawaiian Island chain from Kure Atoll to the island of Hawaii and elsewhere in the Pacific. Research, monitoring and resource management efforts, especially pertinent to threats of marine invasive species and other environmental changes, are substantial activities of many federal, state, and commonwealth governments. Reliable records and accurate taxonomic identifications, with emphasis on the reef-building coralline algae, are of major ecological importance in understanding the dynamics of reef ecosystems. These data are crucial to any effective resource management throughout the Pacific. The Museum's virtual algal herbarium direct Internet access will enable immediate availability of precision information and rapid response via interactive data platforms. Educational benefits will range from general species information and images, to accurate known distribution, species range predictability, potential spread of invasive species, and ecological changes.