Collaborative Research: Imaging the Tall Timbers Research Station's Biological Research Collections

该项目的目标是在美国佛罗里达州塔拉哈西的高木材研究站（TTRS）博物馆为大约16,000种植物、鸟类、哺乳动物和鳞翅目标本创建高分辨率数字图像。这些标本代表了佛罗里达州和佐治亚州红山地区几乎完整的植物、鸟类、哺乳动物和鳞翅目物种。除了对所有标本进行成像外，该项目还将把现有的动植物标本描述数据和相关图像迁移到佛罗里达州立大学植物标本馆数据库，通过现有的在线搜索网站可以访问这些数据。该项目产生的所有标本记录将可通过全球生物多样性信息设施门户网站使用DiGIR协议进行搜索，并将存储在Morphbank （www.morphbank.net）中。红山地区是美国东部海湾沿岸平原的一部分，是美国五大“生物多样性热点地区”之一。红山的生物多样性特别高，因为经常使用规定的火，这是大多数本地物种赖以生存的。因此，该收集是一个宝贵的自然物种多样性和分布基线数据来源，可用于整个东墨西哥湾沿岸平原的研究、保护和恢复。大多数标本是由著名的分类学家和博物学家收集的，这为这些标本的收藏增加了可信度和价值。超过21个联邦政府列出的受威胁或濒危物种和超过400个州列出的受威胁或濒危物种在收集中，通常是多个标本。TTRS研究人员指导了许多研究生和本科生实习生，他们中的大多数人都依靠TTRS标本进行研究。获取基于网络的物种识别图像对这些研究人员以及生态区内几所大学和生物实地站的其他研究人员特别有用。trs系列可在http://www.talltimbers.org/museum.html上找到。

The goal of this project is to create high-resolution digital images of the ca. 16,000 plant, bird, mammal, and Lepidoptera specimens in the Tall Timbers Research Station (TTRS) Museum in Tallahassee, Florida, USA. The specimens represent a nearly complete collection of plant, bird, mammal, and Lepidoptera species that occur in the Red Hills region of Florida and Georgia. In addition to imaging all specimens, the project will migrate existing plant and animal specimen description data and associated images to the Florida State University herbarium database, from which they will be accessible through an existing on-line searchable website. All of the specimen records generated by the project will be searchable by Global Biodiversity Information Facility portal using the DiGIR protocol and will be deposited in Morphbank (www.morphbank.net). The Red Hills Region, from which most of the collection is drawn, is a part of the East Gulf Coastal Plain ecoregion, which is one of the nation's top five "biodiversity hotspots." The Red Hills have particularly high biodiversity because of the frequent application of prescribed fire, on which most of the indigenous species depend. Thus, the collection is a valuable source of baseline data for natural species diversity and distribution, which can be applied in research, conservation, and restoration throughout the East Gulf Coastal Plain. Most of the specimens were collected by renowned taxonomists and naturalists, lending credibility and value to the collection. Over 21 federally listed threatened or endangered species and over 400 state listed threatened or endangered species are represented in the collection, usually by multiple specimens. TTRS researchers mentor numerous graduate students and undergraduate interns, most of whom rely on TTRS specimens for their research. Access to web-based imagery for species identification will be particularly useful to these researchers and others in the several universities and biological field stations within the ecoregion. The TTRS collections can be found at http://www.talltimbers.org/museum.html.