Development of a Multi-Herbarium Web-Accessible Database of the Vascular Plants from the Missouri Plateau, U.S.A.

该奖项是根据2009年美国复苏和再投资法案(公法111-5)资助的。黑山州立大学获得了国家科学基金会的拨款，以(1)验证身份并开发一个数据库，其中包括该地区14种草本植物所拥有的密苏里州高原的所有维管植物标本，以及(2)提供该地区植物数据的网络访问。研究区域约占美国大陆陆地面积的十二分之一。除了合作机构的专业植物学家外，数据库的建设将在本科生和研究生的帮助下完成。这项活动包括汇编和传播有关该国植物学上最不为人所知的地区之一的信息。该数据库将在http://herbarium.bhsu.edu.Broader向公众开放，这项活动的影响将包括对数据库中现成信息的多种使用。该项目将使世界各地的研究人员、区域土地管理人员和普通公众更容易获得该地区植物区系的知识。为中学和中学教师以及土地管理人员举办的讲习班将提供更广泛的成果利用，并使该区域的公共和私人土地得到更多知情的管理。

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).Black Hills State University has been awarded a grant by the National Science Foundation to (1) verify identifications and develop a database of all vascular plant specimens from the Missouri Plateau held by 14 herbaria in the region and (2) provide web access to data for plants from the region. The study area consists of approximately 1/12th of the land area of the continental United States. The construction of the database will be done with the help of undergraduate and graduate students in addition to professional botanists from the cooperating institutions. The activity includes the compilation and dissemination of information on one of the botanically least known areas of the nation. The database will be accessible to the public at http://herbarium.bhsu.edu.Broader impacts of this activity will include a multitude of uses of the readily available information in the database. The project will make knowledge of the flora of the area more accessible to researchers throughout the world, regional land managers, and the general public. Workshops for middle school and secondary teachers as well as land managers will provide broader utilization of the results and allow more informed management of public and private lands in the region.