Digitization TCN Collaborative Research: North American Lichens and Bryophytes: Sensitive Indicators of Environmental Quality and Change

数字化 TCN 合作研究：北美地衣和苔藓植物：环境质量和变化的敏感指标

• 批准号: 1115131
• 负责人: Tatyana Livshultz
• 金额: $ 10.58万
• 依托单位: Academy of Natural Sciences Philadelphia
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-07-01 至 2016-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1115131&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Digitization; TCN; Collaborative; Research; North

Lichens and bryophytes share biological traits that make them some of the most sensitive indicators of environmental change. The goal of this project is to provide high quality data to address how species distributions change as a result of major environmental events across time and space. Specifically, this project will digitize the label information (the what, when, where and by whom collected) and images for approximately 2.3 million biological specimens curated in North American lichen and bryophyte herbaria. These collections represent well over 90% of all specimens collected in Canada, the United States and Mexico and held by over 60 US non-governmental institutions. New, on-line digitization techniques will be made publically available at at http://symbiota.org/nalichens/ and http://symbiota.org/bryophytes/, and will allow interested members of the public to be involved and learn about biodiversity alongside the professionals.Availability of nearly the entire North American bryophyte and lichen collections on-line will greatly accelerate knowledge and evaluation of the biodiversity of these organisms by fostering collaborations between professionals and the general public. Additionally, models developed from these digitized data will aid future mapping projections of large scale species distributions and identification of biodiversity hotspots as prime candidates for protection. These endeavors will help to elucidate regions where changes are imminent and likely to have substantial impact, as well as to facilitate proactive initiatives to alleviate such changes. This award is made as part of the National Resource for Digitization of Biological Collections through the Advancing Digitization of Biological Collections program and all data resulting from this award will be available through the national resource.

地衣和苔藓具有共同的生物学特征，这使它们成为环境变化最敏感的指标。该项目的目标是提供高质量的数据，以说明物种分布如何因重大环境事件而在时间和空间上发生变化。具体地说，该项目将数字化北美地衣和苔藓草本植物中收藏的大约230万个生物标本的标签信息(收集了什么、何时、何处和由谁收集)和图像。这些藏品占加拿大、美国和墨西哥收集的所有标本的90%以上，由60多个美国非政府机构持有。新的在线数字化技术将在http://symbiota.org/nalichens/和http://symbiota.org/bryophytes/，上公开提供，并将允许感兴趣的公众参与并与专业人员一起了解生物多样性。几乎整个北美苔藓和地衣收藏的在线可获得性将通过促进专业人员和普通公众之间的合作，极大地加快对这些生物多样性的知识和评估。此外，根据这些数字化数据开发的模型将有助于未来对大规模物种分布的测绘预测，并将生物多样性热点确定为主要的保护候选者。这些努力将有助于阐明哪些地区的变化迫在眉睫，并可能产生重大影响，并有助于采取积极主动的举措来缓解这种变化。该奖项是通过推进生物收藏数字化计划作为生物收藏数字化国家资源的一部分，该奖项产生的所有数据将通过国家资源获得。