Digitization TCN: Collaborative: The Macrofungi Collection Consortium: Unlocking a Biodiversity Resource for Understanding Biotic Interactions, Nutrient Cycling and Human Affairs

数字化 TCN：协作：大型真菌收集联盟：解锁生物多样性资源以了解生物相互作用、养分循环和人类事务

• 批准号: 1207526
• 负责人: Thomas Bruns
• 金额: $ 35.32万
• 依托单位: University of California-Berkeley
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-07-01 至 2017-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1207526&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Digitization; TCN; Collaborative; Macrofungi; Collection

The Macrofungi Collection Consortium: Unlocking a Biodiversity Resource for Understanding Biotic Interactions, Nutrient Cycling and Human AffairsMushrooms and related fungi (macrofungi) play a critical role in the lives of plants and animals, including humans, yet their diversity is underestimated. Understanding this diversity will be critical in analyzing impacts of habitat change, nutrient cycling in ecosystems, and distributions and diversity of host organisms. Scientists in the U.S. have been studying these fungi for the past 150 years, resulting in a legacy of approximately 1.4 million dried scientific specimens conserved in 35 institutions in 24 states. These institutions have now joined in an effort to digitize and share online all data associated with macrofungi specimens. The resulting resource will enable a national census of macrofungi, never before attempted, and will allow researchers to better understand the diversity of these organisms and the relationship between macrofungi and the organisms with which they form intimate relationships.Organized into clubs across the country, citizen mycologists play an important role in documenting macrofungi diversity, and these enthusiastic individuals are the conduit between professional scientists and the general public for critical information about wild edible and poisonous fungi. Citizen mycologists will join the collections institutions in this project to help to create the on-line resource. The project will fund two workshops for high school teachers to promote classroom study of fungi. University students employed by the project will gain work experience in digitization and formal training about fungi. Students will share the knowledge they gain through oral and video presentations. 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).

大型真菌收集联盟：解锁生物多样性资源以了解生物相互作用、营养循环和人类事务蘑菇和相关真菌(大型真菌)在包括人类在内的动植物生活中发挥着关键作用，但它们的多样性被低估了。了解这种多样性对于分析栖息地变化、生态系统中的养分循环以及宿主生物的分布和多样性的影响至关重要。在过去的150年里，美国科学家一直在研究这些真菌，留下了大约140万份干燥的科学标本，保存在24个州的35个机构中。这些机构现在已经加入了一项努力，将与大型真菌标本有关的所有数据数字化并在网上共享。由此产生的资源将使全国大型真菌普查成为史无前例的尝试，并将使研究人员更好地了解这些生物的多样性以及大型真菌与它们形成密切关系的生物之间的关系。公民真菌学家在全国各地的俱乐部组织起来，在记录大型真菌多样性方面发挥着重要作用，这些热心的个人是专业科学家和普通公众之间有关野生食用菌和有毒真菌关键信息的渠道。公民真菌学家将加入这个项目的收藏机构，帮助创建在线资源。该项目将资助为高中教师举办的两个讲习班，以促进真菌的课堂研究。受雇于该项目的大学生将获得数字化工作经验和正规的真菌培训。学生将通过口头和视频演示分享他们学到的知识。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。