Global Access to the Taxonomic Legacy of Grady Webster: Digitization and Curation of Webster Euphorbiaceae Resources and Specimens

全球获取格雷迪·韦伯斯特的分类学遗产：韦伯斯特大戟科资源和标本的数字化和管理

• 批准号: 1057391
• 负责人: Ellen Dean
• 金额: $ 14.82万
• 依托单位: University of California-Davis
• 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: 2011-07-01 至 2015-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1057391&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Global; Access; Taxonomic; Legacy; Grady

This project is located at the UC Davis Center for Plant Diversity. Its product is web-based information on the spurge family (Euphorbiaceae), including identification keys, images, specimen records, and publications. The spurge family in its broad sense is one of the largest families of flowering plants; identifying its species is difficult. The project will provide electronic resources for three large genera: Croton (1,250 species); Euphorbia (2,200 species); and Phyllanthus (1,270 species), as well as the genus Dalechampia (100 species). The Center for Plant Diversity has an excellent spurge collection, due to the work of the late Dr. Grady Linder Webster (1927-2005), Professor of Botany at UC Davis. At the time of his death, Dr. Webster was working on numerous projects in the spurge family. This project provides funds to organize and curate his specimens, curate older electronic specimen records, scan well-identified specimens of selected species, and provide electronic versions of spurge publications. Several well-known experts on the spurge family will assist in this project.Electronic specimen label data secured during this project will be available through the Global Biodiversity Information Facility portal and added to the Missouri Botanical Garden TROPICOS database. The specimen data and scanned images will be available to researchers worldwide, including the countries where the specimens originated. The availability of Dr. Webster's unpublished and published identification keys and monographs will facilitate research on the spurge family. The project provides training opportunities for UC Davis undergraduates, volunteers, and international students.

该项目位于加州大学戴维斯分校植物多样性中心。它的产品是基于网络的关于大戟科（Euphorbiaceae）的信息，包括识别密钥、图像、标本记录和出版物。广义上的刺花科是最大的开花植物科之一；确定其种类是困难的。该项目将为三个大属提供电子资源：Croton（1,250种）；大戟属植物（2200种）；和Phyllanthus（1,270种），以及Dalechampia属（100种）。由于已故加州大学戴维斯分校植物学教授格雷迪·林德·韦伯斯特博士（1927-2005）的工作，植物多样性中心有一个优秀的喷射器收藏。在他去世的时候，韦伯斯特博士正在spurge家族从事许多项目。该项目提供资金来组织和整理他的标本，整理旧的电子标本记录，扫描选定物种的鉴定良好的标本，并提供电子版的spurge出版物。几位著名的豪门专家将协助这个项目。在此项目中获得的电子标本标签数据将通过全球生物多样性信息设施门户网站提供，并添加到密苏里植物园TROPICOS数据库中。标本数据和扫描图像将提供给世界各地的研究人员，包括标本发源地的国家。韦伯斯特博士未出版和出版的识别密钥和专著的可用性将促进对刺花家族的研究。该项目为加州大学戴维斯分校的本科生、志愿者和国际学生提供培训机会。