The Beetles of the Pacific Northwest: The Legacy of Melville Harrison Hatch

太平洋西北地区的甲虫：梅尔维尔·哈里森·哈奇的遗产

• 批准号: 0847965
• 负责人: Stevan Arnold
• 金额: $ 46.98万
• 依托单位: Oregon State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-03-01 至 2014-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0847965&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Beetles; Pacific; Northwest; Legacy; Melville

The goal of this project is to integrate a substantial collection of beetle specimens into the holdings of the Oregon State Arthropod Collection (OSAC). The project has three aims. (1) The physical integrity of the specimens will be safeguarded by transferring them to new pest-proof cabinets. (2) The names used to catalog the specimens will be updated so that they comply with the standard naming system (taxonomy) used worldwide by other museums. (3) The accessibility of the specimens to the public and researchers will be improved. Those improvements will make the specimens more accessible onsite and via the internet.Beetles are sensitive indicators of environmental integrity and climate change.Because of this bioindicator role, the OSAC collection of one million voucher specimens is a unique resource for researchers that will be increasingly important in the future. This collection is especially important because it documents the geographic distribution of several thousand species over the last 90 years and so provides an invaluable benchmark for gauging the impact of ongoing and future climate change. After the collection improvements are implemented, the collection will be used by a variety of experts (e.g., ecologists, evolutionary biologists) and will be accessible online by the general public.

该项目的目标是将大量的甲虫标本收集到俄勒冈州节肢动物标本馆（OSAC）。 该项目有三个目标。(1)将标本转移到新的防虫柜中，以保护标本的物理完整性。(2)用于对标本进行分类的名称将进行更新，以便它们符合世界各地其他博物馆使用的标准命名系统（分类法）。 (3)将改善公众和研究人员获取标本的机会。 这些改进将使标本更容易在现场和通过互联网获得。甲虫是环境完整性和气候变化的敏感指标。由于这种生物指示作用，OSAC收集的100万份凭证标本对研究人员来说是一种独特的资源，在未来将越来越重要。 这一系列特别重要，因为它记录了过去90年来数千种物种的地理分布，因此为衡量当前和未来气候变化的影响提供了宝贵的基准。 在实施收集改进之后，收集将由各种专家使用（例如，生态学家、进化生物学家），并将在网上向公众开放。