OPUS: MOVING BRAZIL NUT (LECYTHIDACEAE) RESEARCH INTO THE FUTURE-II

作品：将巴西坚果（卵磷脂科）研究推向未来 - II

• 批准号: 1119712
• 负责人: Scott Mori
• 金额: $ 14.21万
• 依托单位: New York Botanical Garden
• 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: 2011-10-01 至 2014-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1119712&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: OPUS; MOVING; BRAZIL; NUT; LECYTHIDACEAE

The OPUS program (Opportunities for Promoting Understanding through Synthesis) supports the efforts of late-career scientists to synthesize a large body of work. The goal of this OPUS project is to make available on the Internet all known information on the biology of species in the Brazil nut family (Lecythidaceae). This involves providing electronic descriptions (called species pages) that include: descriptions of species, distribution maps, lists of museum specimens, images, ecological information, lists of characters that facilitate identification, and conservation status. In addition, the web site will include electronic keys for identifying species and essays on the anatomy, cytology, fossil record, evolutionary relationships, pollination biology, and dispersal biology. The synthesis will also highlight needs and opportunities for future research.The Brazil nut family comprises an ecologically dominant and economically important group of rain forest trees, as much a symbol of tropical plants as the jaguar is an icon of tropical animals. This synthesis, at The Lecythidaceae Pages (http://sweetgum.nybg.org/lp/index.php), will be an important reference for both scientists and non-scientists, providing information that bears directly on forest conservation and tropical ecology, and that will be valuable for the development of curricula dealing with the complexity of tropical ecosystems.

OPUS计划（通过综合促进理解的机会）支持后期职业科学家综合大量工作的努力。该OPUS项目的目标是在互联网上提供所有已知的巴西坚果科（Lancithidaceae）物种生物学信息。这涉及提供电子描述（称为物种页面），包括：物种描述，分布图，博物馆标本列表，图像，生态信息，便于识别的字符列表和保护状态。此外，该网站还将包括用于识别物种的电子钥匙以及关于解剖学、细胞学、化石记录、进化关系、授粉生物学和传播生物学的论文。综合报告还将强调未来研究的需求和机会。巴西坚果家族包括一组生态上占主导地位和经济上重要的热带雨林树木，是热带植物的象征，就像美洲虎是热带动物的象征一样。这份综合报告载于《鳞翅目植物科网页》（http：//sweetgum.nybg.org/lp/index.php），将成为科学家和非科学家的重要参考资料，提供与森林养护和热带生态学直接有关的信息，对编制有关热带生态系统复杂性的课程很有价值。