U.S.-Vietnam Planning Visit: Systematics and Conservation Assessment of Rattans in the Indo-Burma Region of Tropical Asia

美越计划访问：热带亚洲印缅地区藤类的系统学和保护评估

• 批准号: 0512110
• 负责人: Andrew Henderson
• 金额: $ 0.81万
• 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: 2005-08-01 至 2006-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0512110&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: U.S.; Vietnam; Planning; Visit; Systematics

0512110HendersonThis award supports a planning visit to enable Dr. Andrew Henderson of the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx to meet with Dr. Le Xuan Canh in the Institute of Ecology and Biological Resources (IEBR) in Hanoi. The visit will help develop a collaborative plan for the systematics and ecology of rattans and provide for a joint survey on rattan flora in Vietnam. The Indo-Burma region of tropical Asia contains some of the most diverse and threatened terrestrial habitats in the world. This visit is part of a long-term taxonomic study and conservation assessment of the rattans (Palmae) in this region. The research will produce the first authoritative, specimen-based treatment of rattans in several key countries in the regions. The research is of particular taxonomic value because of its regional approach, i.e. a similar methodology and a shared specimen database is used in each country assessment. This approach avoids the common problem of unidentified specimens from one country being described a new local endemics when they may be a well-known species in a neighboring country. The coupling of collecting activity with line-transect sampling of targeted genera is a significant advance in the efficient characterization of botanical diversity. The results of the proposed research will also assists in the training of local scientists and field crews in the methodologies of collecting and processing rattan specimens and conducting quantitative inventories will have significant implications for rattan conservation and the monitoring of wild stocks. It is also anticipated that future research will provide unique training and educational opportunities for U.S. graduate students by enabling them to obtain a global experience. It is anticipated that these early collaborations between the scientists and students from each country will lead to long-term collaborations that will benefit both institutions.

0512110Henderson 该奖项支持计划访问，使布朗克斯纽约植物园的 Andrew Henderson 博士能够与河内生态与生物资源研究所 (IEBR) 的 Le Xu Canh 博士会面。 此次访问将有助于制定藤类系统学和生态学合作计划，并为越南藤类植物区系联合调查提供依据。 热带亚洲的印度-缅甸地区拥有世界上一些最多样化和受威胁的陆地栖息地。 这次访问是对该地区藤（棕榈）长期分类学研究和保护评估的一部分。 该研究将在该地区几个主要国家对藤条进行第一个权威的、基于标本的处理。 该研究因其区域方法而具有特殊的分类学价值，即每个国家的评估都使用类似的方法和共享的标本数据库。 这种方法避免了来自一个国家的身份不明的标本在邻国可能是众所周知的物种时被描述为新的当地特有物种的常见问题。 将采集活动与目标属的线样线采样相结合是植物多样性有效表征的重大进步。 拟议研究的结果还将有助于培训当地科学家和实地工作人员收集和处理藤条标本的方法，并进行定量清查，这将对藤条保护和野生种群监测产生重大影响。 预计未来的研究将为美国研究生提供独特的培训和教育机会，使他们能够获得全球经验。 预计各国科学家和学生之间的早期合作将形成长期合作，使双方机构受益。