Digitizing and Databasing of the La Selva Flora

向杜克大学和热带研究组织提供了一笔赠款，用于对La Selva植物标本馆、杜克标本馆、国家生物多样性研究所(INBO)和哥斯达黎加国家博物馆的20 000多份植物标本进行数字化、成像和地理参考。车站。这些收集产生的数据库将提供给互联网，从而向学生和研究界提供全球可访问的、全面涵盖La Selva生物站发现的代表加勒比低地热带雨林多样性的植物物种的信息。La Selva的数字植物群将包含分类信息，能够创建诊断物种描述，并从分类x字符矩阵驱动交互式多条目电子钥匙。热带植物项目的影响将有利于La Selva生物站的研究和教育活动。该站是培训参加热带生态学和热带植物系统学实地课程的美国研究生的主要地点。La Selva生物站在过去50年中积累的关于植物物种的丰富知识涉及到具有全球影响的广泛问题，例如，在养护和保护生物多样性、资源管理以及试图了解热带森林在全球气候变化中的作用方面。

A grant has been awarded to Duke University and the Organization for Tropical Studies to digitize, image and geo-reference 20,000-plus plant specimens from the La Selva Herbarium collection, the Duke Herbarium, Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad (INBio) and the Museo Nacional de Costa Rica. Station. The database generated by these collections will be served to the Internet, thus providing students and the research community with a globally accessible, comprehensive coverage of plant species found at the La Selva Biological Station and representing Caribbean lowland tropical rainforest diversity. The Digital Flora of La Selva will contain taxonomic information, have the ability to create diagnostic species descriptions and drive interactive multiple entry electronic keys from taxon x character matrices. The impacts of the tropical flora project will benefit the research and educational activities of the La Selva Biological Station. The station is a prime site for training U.S. graduate students participating in the field courses in tropical ecology and tropical plant systematics. The wealth of knowledge about plant species that has been accumulated at the La Selva Biological Station over the past 50 years touches on a broad range of issues that have global implications, for example, in conserving and protecting biodiversity, resource management, and in trying to understand the role of tropical forests in global climate change.