An Information Infrastructure for Vegetation Science

植被科学信息基础设施

• 批准号: 0213794
• 负责人: Robert Peet
• 金额: $ 105万
• 依托单位: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2002
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2002-09-01 至 2006-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0213794&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Information; Infrastructure; Vegetation; Science

Vegetation classification is critical for resource mapping, conservation planning and ecological monitoring. This project will provide the information infrastructure, VegBank, that will include field plot data, the plant taxa used, the community classification, and mechanisms for proposing changes. Vegetation plot records support not only classification, but also most research in plant community ecology. A working prototype of a system for acquiring, searching and disseminating field plot records for classifying North American vegetation has been developed and is available on the web. VegBank is a collaboration of four institutions that represent major data sources and users. VegBank will be expanded and tested as a robust, public system for use by the broader plant ecology community. The plant and community classification modules will provide a technical solution for taxonomic ambiguities. The module will be populated with data from collaborating groups. Sharing and replication of data will enable several databases by allowing for linkages that would make an international network supporting distributed queries. A plug-in tool will foster future development by the user community. All of the data will be web accessible.

植被分类对于资源测绘、保护规划和生态监测至关重要。 该项目将提供信息基础设施VegBank，其中将包括田间地块数据，使用的植物类群，社区分类和建议变更的机制。 植被样地记录不仅支持分类，而且支持大多数植物群落生态学研究。 已经开发了一个系统的工作原型，用于获取、搜索和传播用于北美植被分类的实地地块记录，并可在网上查阅。 VegBank是代表主要数据来源和用户的四个机构的合作。 VegBank将作为一个强大的公共系统进行扩展和测试，供更广泛的植物生态社区使用。 植物和群落分类单元将为分类学上的模糊性提供技术解决办法。 该模块将使用来自协作组的数据进行填充。数据的共享和复制将使若干数据库能够建立联系，形成一个支持分散查询的国际网络。 插件工具将促进用户社区的未来发展。 所有的数据都可以通过网络访问。