Integration of Two Large Orphaned Lichen Collections into the Oregon State University Herbarium

俄勒冈州立大学(OSU)植物标本馆是一个主要的地区性收藏，收藏了大约425,000个植物和真菌标本。它是一个正在积极生长和大量利用的研究标本馆，也是记录和研究俄勒冈州各种植物和真菌的主要资源。该项目将增加从美国农业部林业局(USFS)永久转移的大约220,000个地衣标本。这些标本是作为USFS森林调查和分析(FIA)和空气资源管理计划的一部分收集的。它们包含了常规植物标本馆所没有的独特而庞大的数据和标本来源。FIA计划的广泛、细粒度采样框架为物种分布建模、系统地理学和测量对环境变化的生物响应提供了特殊的基础。迫切需要保护这些标本，因为它们目前存放在非档案条件下，研究人员无法接触到它们。由于俄亥俄州立大学致力于生物收藏的长期保存和使用，将USFS标本纳入俄亥俄州立大学标本馆将为未来保护它们。此外，俄勒冈州立大学为学习地衣而开发的受欢迎的教育资源(http://ocid.nacse.org/lichenland))将作为这项计划的一部分得到振兴和加强。为了容纳美国州立大学的地衣收藏，俄勒冈州州立大学的标本馆将增加54个钢质标本箱。地衣标本标签将被拍照，以捕捉没有保存在FIA和空气资源管理电子数据库中的信息。然后，这些标本将被重新包装在档案材料中，按分类进行组织，并整合到俄亥俄州立大学的标本馆中。标本标签数据和图像将通过太平洋西北草药联盟(http://www.pnwherbaria.org))在线提供，该联盟的总部设在华盛顿大学植物标本馆、伯克自然历史和文化博物馆以及数字化中心iDigBio。有关俄亥俄州立大学标本馆和该项目的更多信息，请访问：http://oregonstate.edu/dept/botany/herbarium.。

The Oregon State University (OSU) Herbarium is a major regional collection of approximately 425,000 specimens of plants and fungi. It is an actively growing and heavily utilized research herbarium, and is the primary resource for the documentation and study of Oregon's diverse plants and fungi. This project will enable the addition of approximately 220,000 lichen specimens permanently transferred from the USDA Forest Service (USFS). These specimens were collected as part of the USFS Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) and Air Resource Management programs. They comprise a unique and voluminous source of data and specimens not available in regular herbarium collections. The extensive, fine-grained sampling framework for the FIA program provides an exceptional basis for species distribution modeling, phylogeography, and measuring biological responses to environmental change. The need to secure these specimens is urgent because they are currently housed in non-archival conditions and are inaccessible to researchers. Incorporating the USFS specimens into the OSU Herbarium will protect them for the future by virtue of OSU's commitment to long-term preservation and use of biological collections. In addition, a popular educational resource developed at OSU for learning about lichens (http://ocid.nacse.org/lichenland) will be revitalized and enhanced as part of this project.To accommodate the USFS lichen collections, 54 steel herbarium cases will be added to the OSU Herbarium. The lichen specimen labels will be photographed in order to capture information that is not maintained in the FIA and Air Resource Management electronic databases. The specimens will then be repackaged in archival materials, organized taxonomically, and integrated into the OSU Herbarium. Specimen label data and images will be made available online via the Consortium of Pacific Northwest Herbaria (http://www.pnwherbaria.org) which is based at the University of Washington Herbarium, Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture, and with the digitization HUB iDigBio. More information about the OSU Herbarium and this project is available at: http://oregonstate.edu/dept/botany/herbarium.