CSBR: NATURAL HISTORY COLLECTIONS: TRANSFORMING ACCESSIBILITY TO THE RICH, SITE-BASED, MULTI-TAXON COLLECTION OF ARCHBOLD BIOLOGICAL STATION

阿奇博尔德生物站(ABS)是一个国际公认的非营利性生物野外站，位于佛罗里达州中部，旨在保护和确保威尔士湖山脉佛罗里达州灌木丛栖息地独特的、不可替代的生命记录，威尔士湖山脉是美国最危险的生态系统之一。该项目的目标是大约27万个标本，包括节肢动物植物、哺乳动物、鸟类、鱼类和爬行动物。标本将被数字化和成像，以增加从佛罗里达灌木丛和周围地区获得关于这个独特收藏的信息的在线途径。拟议的活动将促进生物科学的进步，促进保护的益处，并增加教育宣传。例如，通过提供更多机会利用藏品为研究项目和其他形式的学生参与提供信息，ABS针对学生的计划将得到加强。此外，有关收藏品的信息将在研讨会期间与地区土地管理人员共享，ABS将增加K-12学生获得教学标本和展品的机会。该奖项将允许Archbold生物站策划和数字化其多样化的收藏品。这一数字化努力将改善研究人员和教育工作者对数据的可及性。该项目的一个主要重点将是节肢动物的收集(特别是蚂蚁、灌木特有种、昆虫-花访客和枯木昆虫)，但其他分类类别也将得到保护。与iDigBio的合作将使ABS能够有效地对标本数据进行数据库、图像处理和移植到互联网上。与共生区连接的门户网站将加强ABS网站，提供一个很好的例子，说明区域野外站收集可以实现什么。通过将收集的数据发布在网上，ABS将提供几乎完整的生物多样性记录和丰富的生态数据，使生物多样性研究能够以其他方式难以复制的方式进行。这种可获得性的增加也将使教育工作者和环境保护界受益。

An award is made to the Archbold Biological Station (ABS), an internationally recognized not-for-profit biological field station in central Florida, to preserve and secure a unique, irreplaceable record of life in the Florida Scrub habitat of the Lake Wales Ridge, one of the Nation's most imperiled ecosystems. The project targets approximately 270,000 specimens including arthropods plants, mammals, birds, fish, and reptiles. Specimens will be digitized and imaged to increase online access to information about this unique collection from the Florida Scrub and surrounding environs. Activities proposed will enhance advances in the biological sciences, promote benefits to conservation, and increase educational outreach. For example, by offering more opportunities for use of the collection to inform research projects and other forms of student engagement, ABS's programs for students will be strengthened. Furthermore, information about the collection will be shared during workshops with regional land managers and ABS will increase access to teaching specimens and exhibits for K-12 students.This award will allow Archbold Biological Station to curate and digitize its diverse collection. This digitization effort will improve data accessibility to researchers and educators. A major focus of this project will be the arthropod collection (specifically the ants, scrub endemics, insect-flower visitors and dead wood insects) but other taxonomic groups will also be secured. Partnering with iDigBio will enable ABS to effectively database, image and migrate specimen data to the Internet. Symbiota-linked portals will augment the ABS website, providing an excellent example of what a regional field station collection can achieve. By posting the collection data online, ABS will make available a virtually complete biodiversity record and rich ecological data, enabling studies of biodiversity in ways that would be difficult to otherwise replicate. This increase in accessibility will also benefit educators and the conservation community.