RUI: SWITCH: SouthWest Idaho: The Comprehensive Herbaria. An on-line database resource for botanical research and education

RUI：切换：爱达荷州西南部：综合植物标本室。

• 批准号: 1052719
• 负责人: Donald Mansfield
• 金额: $ 36.58万
• 依托单位: The College of Idaho
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-08-01 至 2015-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1052719&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RUI; SWITCH; SouthWest; Idaho; Comprehensive

This project will develop SWITCH (Southwest Idaho: The Comprehensive Herbarium), a virtual herbarium for Southwest Idaho and adjacent Oregon and Nevada, by imaging and databasing vascular and non-vascular plant and fungal collections in the region. SWITCH will provide internet access to an estimated 118,500 preserved plant, fungus, and lichen collections, and the resulting images and corresponding data will be made available through the Consortium of Pacific Northwest Herbaria Portal. Plant specimens and data from this region are presently underrepresented in national efforts to understand and map plant diversity. SWITCH will provide a critical resource for research scientists, students, federal and state agency land managers, and citizens by: i) contributing directly to several national biodiversity projects currently underway; ii) assisting scientists and others in tracking rare plants and invasive species; iii) providing support for policy formulation in the region; iv) supporting a program in which citizen scientists may learn and contribute to ongoing study of botanical and ecological heritage in Idaho; and iv) stimulating further interest in Idaho plants, fungi, and lichens. In addition, several students will be trained at two primarily undergraduate institutions, the College of Idaho and Boise State University.

该项目将通过对该地区的维管和非维管植物和真菌标本进行成像和数据库化，开发爱达荷州西南部：综合植物标本馆，这是一个针对爱达荷州西南部以及邻近的俄勒冈州和内华达州的虚拟植物标本馆。该网站将提供约118，500种保存的植物，真菌和地衣收藏品的互联网访问，所产生的图像和相应的数据将通过太平洋西北植物标本馆门户网站联盟提供。该地区的植物标本和数据目前在国家了解和绘制植物多样性的努力中代表性不足。 SWITCH将通过以下方式为研究科学家、学生、联邦和州机构土地管理者以及公民提供重要资源：i）直接为目前正在进行的几个国家生物多样性项目做出贡献; ii）协助科学家和其他人追踪稀有植物和入侵物种; iii）为该地区的政策制定提供支持; iv）支持一个公民科学家可以学习并为正在进行的爱达荷州植物和生态遗产研究做出贡献的计划; iv）激发对爱达荷州植物、真菌和地衣的进一步兴趣。此外，几名学生将在两个主要的本科院校，爱达荷州学院和博伊西州立大学接受培训。