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

摘要：数字化笔：来自五个佛罗里达州草本植物的北美苔藓和苔藓标本的数字化该奖项加入了正在进行的北美地衣和苔藓：环境质量和变化的敏感指标主题收藏网络项目。在该网络中，个别项目提供了关于苔藓和地衣在生态系统中的作用的广泛文献，这些群体已知对直接的微生境和许多种类的物理和化学环境变化敏感，并对这种变化迅速作出反应。苔藓植物和地衣在酸雨、气候变暖或干燥、放牧压力、水质和生态连续性等方面的研究中具有特色。将来自佛罗里达草本植物的标本数据添加到正在进行的TCN苔藓/苔藓植物数据库中，将显著增加佛罗里达州的持有量。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。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即将发生变化，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举措来缓解这种变化。佛罗里达州包括亚热带和热带社区，相比之下，温带和北方社区代表了更北部的草本植物，后者是该网络的一部分。为了为未来的工人提供培训，该奖项将资助一名研究生协调和管理该项目，并将资助两名或更多本科生进行标签成像/数字化的监督和培训。佛罗里达自然历史博物馆和佛罗里达大学多年来一直使用少量高技能的志愿者，通过这个项目，我们将把志愿者整合到博物馆社区，我们将提高公众对这些生物的重要性及其应对气候变化的认识。该奖项是通过推进生物收藏数字化计划作为国家生物收藏数字化资源的一部分颁发的，由该奖项产生的所有数据将通过国家资源(iDigBio.org)获得。

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).