Ericaceae in the Central Andes: Bolivia and Adjacent Southern Peru

安第斯山脉中部的杜鹃花科：玻利维亚和毗邻的秘鲁南部

• 批准号: 0444238
• 负责人: James Luteyn
• 金额: $ 27.5万
• 依托单位: New York Botanical Garden
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-02-01 至 2008-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0444238&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Ericaceae; Central; Andes; Bolivia; Adjacent

ABSTRACT James LuteynDEB 0444238 The proposed study area, encompasing the Andes mountains of Bolivia and adjacent southern Peru, is the least known region in South America for plants including those in the blueberry plant family (Ericaceae). This plant family is ecologically dominant in montane habitats, is a source of food for animals and to a lesser degree humans, and has medicinal potential through antioxidant properties. By a combination of field work to collect and observe the plants in their natural habitats, museum studies of collections from throughout the world, and cutting-edge molecular laboratory studies, the blueberry family will be taxonomically revised by the Principal Investigator in colaboration with local Bolivian and Peruvian students, a New York Botanical Garden graduate student, and colleagues at Wake Forest University and the City University of New York. Plants totally new to science are expected to be discovered and described. A hard-copy taxonomic treatment will be published in book form in an international plant sciences journal. An electronic version will be disseminated through the Internet. This project has broad impacts for systematic botany, conservation biology, genomics, phylogenetics, informatics, and species-level studies. It synthesizes all available data and generates new information about plants in the blueberry family in Bolivia and southern Peru and sets the stage for future monographic/evolutionary studies. It enhances understanding of plant evolutionary history and ecological and distributional patterns of species near the limits of their range, and suggests directions for additional work in other lesser known groups of plants. Data is shared with other researchers and materials are provided to incorporate molecular data at a level of diversity seldom available. The project enhances and strengthens the infrastructure of science by providing new collections and equipment to local and international museums. Through its training component and interactions with scientists, the project strengthens networks of cooperation and educates underrepresented groups in Latin America in the latest technological methods. Finally, it will make specimen data and all other products available to everyone on the Internet.

摘要 James LuteynDEB 0444238 拟议的研究区域包括玻利维亚的安第斯山脉和邻近的秘鲁南部，是南美洲最不为人所知的植物区域，其中包括蓝莓植物科（杜鹃花科）植物。 该植物科在山地栖息地的生态中占主导地位，是动物和较小程度人类的食物来源，并通过抗氧化特性具有药用潜力。 首席研究员将与当地玻利维亚和秘鲁学生、纽约植物园研究生以及维克森林大学和纽约城市大学的同事合作，通过在自然栖息地收集和观察植物的实地工作、对世界各地收藏品的博物馆研究以及尖端分子实验室研究相结合，对蓝莓家族进行分类学修订。 预计将发现和描述对科学来说全新的植物。 硬拷贝的分类学处理将以书籍的形式发表在国际植物科学期刊上。 电子版将通过互联网传播。 该项目对系统植物学、保护生物学、基因组学、系统发育学、信息学和物种水平研究具有广泛影响。 它综合了所有可用数据并生成有关玻利维亚和秘鲁南部蓝莓科植物的新信息，并为未来的专题/进化研究奠定了基础。 它增强了对植物进化历史以及接近其范围极限的物种的生态和分布模式的理解，并为其他鲜为人知的植物类群的额外工作提出了方向。 与其他研究人员共享数据，并提供材料以将分子数据纳入罕见的多样性水平。 该项目通过向当地和国际博物馆提供新的藏品和设备来增强和加强科学基础设施。 通过其培训内容和与科学家的互动，该项目加强了合作网络，并为拉丁美洲代表性不足的群体提供了最新技术方法的教育。 最后，它将向互联网上的每个人提供样本数据和所有其他产品。