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

摘要：数字化PEN：来自五个佛罗里达草本植物的北美苔藓植物和地衣标本的数字化这个奖项加入了正在进行的关于北美地衣和苔藓植物的主题收集网络项目：环境质量和变化的敏感指标。 在该网络中，个别项目提供了大量关于苔藓和地衣在生态系统中作用的文献资料，已知这些群体对直接微生境和许多种类的环境变化敏感，包括物理和化学变化，并对这些变化迅速作出反应。苔藓植物和地衣在酸雨、气候变暖或干燥、放牧压力、水质和生态连续性的研究中具有重要意义。 将来自佛罗里达植物标本馆的标本数据添加到正在进行的TCN地衣/苔藓植物数据库中，将大大增加来自佛罗里达的馆藏。 此外，从这些数字化数据开发的模型将有助于未来大规模物种分布的绘图预测和确定生物多样性热点作为保护的主要候选者。由于发展和气候变化，佛罗里达的环境正在经历快速变化。 这些数据将有助于阐明即将发生变化并可能对佛罗里达产生重大影响的地区。 这些数据还将有助于采取积极主动的举措，缓解这些变化。 佛罗里达包括亚热带和热带群落，与作为网络一部分的北方植物标本馆中的温带和北方群落形成对比。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的监督和培训，以执行标签成像/数字化。多年来，佛罗里达自然历史博物馆和佛罗里达大学一直在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及其对气候变化的反应的认识。该奖项是作为国家资源的一部分，通过推进生物收藏品数字化计划的生物收藏品的数字化，从这个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).