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

0512110 Henderson该奖项支持一项计划访问，使布朗克斯纽约植物园的Andrew亨德森博士能够与河内生态与生物资源研究所（IEBR）的Le Xuan Canh博士会面。 这次访问将有助于制定一个合作计划，为藤本植物的系统学和生态学，并提供一个联合调查的藤本植物植物群在越南。 热带亚洲的印度-缅甸地区拥有世界上最多样化和最受威胁的陆地栖息地。 这次访问是对该地区的藤（棕榈科）进行长期分类研究和保护评估的一部分。 这项研究将在该地区的几个主要国家产生第一个权威的、以马达加斯加为基础的藤条治疗方法。 这项研究具有特别的分类学价值，因为它采用了区域方法，即在每个国家的评估中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未识别标本被描述为新的地方特有种的常见问题，而它们可能是邻国的知名物种。 将采集活动与目标属的样线取样相结合是植物多样性有效表征的一个重大进展。 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掌握采集和处理鱼类标本的方法，并进行数量清点，这将对鱼类养护和监测野生种群产生重大影响。 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。 预计两国科学家和学生之间的这些早期合作将导致长期合作，使两个机构受益。

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.