Collaborative Research: Digitization TCN: Mobilizing New England Vascular Plant Specimen Data to Track Environmental Changes

合作研究：数字化 TCN：利用新英格兰维管植物标本数据来跟踪环境变化

• 批准号: 1208972
• 负责人: Erika Edwards
• 金额: $ 15.24万
• 依托单位: Brown University
• 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=1208972&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Digitization; TCN; Mobilizing

Herbarium specimens provide a source of historical information useful to the study of global environmental change. The goal of this project is to provide data to support studies of the nature and consequences of environmental change in the New England region over the last three centuries. This project will digitally capture specimen data and images from about 1.3 million vascular plant specimens from herbaria across New England, enhancing the data with georeferencing, habitat, and phonological information. The digitization process will integrate with existing community efforts and will develop novel high-throughput digitization technologies to increase efficiency and decrease costs. All resulting data and images will be freely available on-line.The data from this project will be of immediate use to scientists who study climate and land-use change, and will provide a better understanding of how global changes will impact the distribution of native and introduced plant species. This project will benefit research in taxonomy, ecology, morphology, biogeography, and evolutionary history by making available data on an entire regional flora in an electronic format. The methodologies developed will provide a model for other regions around the nation. In addition the project will utilize citizen scientists, school groups, and students providing training, research, and educational opportunities. . 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).

植物标本标本提供了历史信息的来源，可用于研究全球环境变化。该项目的目的是提供数据，以支持过去三个世纪新英格兰地区环境变化的性质和后果的研究。该项目将在新英格兰各地的大约130万只血管植物标本中捕获标本数据和图像，并通过地理范围，栖息地和语音信息增强数据。数字化过程将与现有的社区努力集成，并将开发新型的高通量数字化技术，以提高效率并降低成本。所有结果数据和图像将在线免费提供。该项目的数据将对研究气候和土地利用变化的科学家立即使用，并将更好地理解全球变化将如何影响本地和引入植物物种的分布。该项目将通过以电子格式在整个区域植物群上提供数据，从而使分类学，生态学，形态，生物地理学和进化历史的研究受益。开发的方法将为全国其他地区提供模型。此外，该项目将利用提供培训，研究和教育机会的公民科学家，学校团体和学生。 。该奖项是通过推进生物收集计划的数字化数字化生物收集资源的一部分，该奖项产生的所有数据将通过国家资源（idigbio.org）获得。