Digitization PEN: Digitization of North American Bryophyte and Lichen Specimens from Florida Herbaria

摘要：数字化PEN：来自佛罗里达州5个植物标本馆的北美苔藓植物和地衣标本的数字化该奖项加入了正在进行的“北美地衣和苔藓植物：环境质量和变化的敏感指标”专题收藏网络项目。在这个网络中，个别项目提供了关于苔藓植物和地衣在生态系统中的作用的大量文件，这些植物和地衣已知对即时微生境和多种物理和化学环境变化敏感，并对这种变化作出迅速反应。苔藓植物和地衣在酸雨、气候变暖或干燥、放牧压力、水质和生态连续性的研究中占有重要地位。将佛罗里达州植物标本馆的标本数据添加到正在进行的TCN地衣/苔藓植物数据库将大大增加佛罗里达州的馆藏。此外，从这些数字化数据中开发的模型将有助于未来大规模物种分布的制图预测和确定生物多样性热点作为主要的保护候选者。由于发展和气候变化，佛罗里达州的环境正在经历快速变化。这些数据将有助于阐明哪些地区的变化迫在眉睫，并可能对佛罗里达州产生重大影响。这些数据还将有助于采取积极主动的措施来缓解这种变化。佛罗里达州包括亚热带和热带群落，与作为网络一部分的北部植物标本馆所代表的温带和北方群落形成鲜明对比。为了培训未来的工人，该奖项将资助一名研究生协调和管理该项目，并将资助监督和培训两名或两名以上的本科生执行标签成像/数字化。佛罗里达自然历史博物馆和佛罗里达大学多年来一直利用少数高技能的志愿者，通过这个项目，我们将把志愿者融入博物馆社区，我们将提高公众对这些生物的重要性以及它们对气候变化的反应的认识。该奖项是国家生物馆藏数字化资源的一部分，通过推进生物馆藏数字化计划，该奖项产生的所有数据将通过国家资源（iDigBio.org）提供。

ABSTRACT: Digitization PEN: Digitization of North American Bryophyte and Lichen Specimens from Five Florida HerbariaThis award joins the ongoing Thematic Collections Network project on North American Lichens and Bryophytes: Sensitive Indicators of Environmental Quality and Change. In this Network, individual projects provide extensive documentation on the role of bryophytes and lichens in ecosystems, groups known to be sensitive to the immediate microhabitat and to environmental changes of many kinds, both physical and chemical, and which respond rapidly to such changes. Bryophytes and lichens have been featured in studies of acid rain, climate warming or drying, grazing pressure, water quality, and ecological continuity. The addition of specimen data from Florida herbaria to the ongoing TCN Lichen/Bryophyte database will significantly enhance holdings from Florida. 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. The environment in Florida is experiencing rapid change due to development and climate change. These data will help to elucidate regions where changes are imminent and likely to have substantial impact in Florida. The data will also facilitate proactive initiatives to alleviate such changes. Florida includes subtropical and tropical communities, contrasting with the temperate and boreal communities represented in more northern herbaria that are part of the Network. To provide training for future workers the award will fund one graduate student to coordinate and manage the project and will fund the supervision and training of two or more undergraduate students to perform label imaging/digitization. The Florida Museum of Natural History and the University of Florida has utilized a small number of highly skilled volunteers for many years, and with this project we will be integrating volunteers into the museum community, and we will increase public awareness of the importance of these organisms and their responses to climate change. 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 (iDigBio.org).