CSBR: Natural History: Critical Access and Storage for the Mycological Collections at the University of California, Berkeley

真菌是所有陆地生态系统的重要组成部分，它们在植物和动物中作为共生者、寄生虫和共生体发挥着重要作用。世界上大多数重要的植物病原体，如栗子枯萎病、荷兰榆树病、橡树枯萎病和白松水疱锈病都是真菌。此外，真菌是主要的分解者，负责回收有机物质，如落叶和倒下的树木。在后者的角色中，它们直接影响全球碳循环，甚至在地质时间尺度上也是如此。植物标本室是记录与科学研究相关的标本的身份和特征的重要资料库。加州大学伯克利分校（UC）的大学植物标本室一直在扩大其真菌学收藏，以满足更好地了解加州和整个北美真菌的需求。这个奖项将为真菌收藏提供安全的储存，这些真菌收藏现在被安置在一个废弃的建筑中。它还将支持参与“分枝闪电战”的当地公民科学团体，这些团体需要科学专业知识来收集和识别材料。有关真菌生物学各方面的公众工作坊亦会举行。UC植物标本室一直在扩大其真菌学收藏，以支持真菌的多样性研究：它们的分类、地理分布、生态学、形态特征和DNA。一项对北美大陆的调查正在展开，植物标本室将在北美菌群项目中发挥关键作用，因为它有许多种类和历史收藏品，这些都是确定物种名称和记录历史范围所必需的。加州大学目前的真菌收藏大约有215,000个标本，其中包括2000多种真菌类型的收藏，以及许多其他具有历史价值的收藏。没有足够的空间存放所有的标本，特别是那些重要的、受到威胁的藏品，目前被存放在一栋废弃建筑的偏远储存地点。扩建的空间容纳这些藏品存在于现代的主要植物标本馆空间中，最近翻修了校园的学术建筑，但缺少压实机、车厢和箱子来完成这项任务。压路机车厢将安装在现有轨道上；108例新病例和86例现有病例将被放置在车厢上，完成将真菌收集物转移到一个连贯、安全的安排。

The fungi are critical components of all terrestrial ecosystems, where they play important roles as mutualists, parasites, and commensals in both plants and animals. Most of the world's important plant pathogens, such as chestnut blight, Dutch elm disease, oak wilt, and white pine blister rust are fungi. In addition, fungi are the primary decomposers responsible for recycling organic matter such as fallen leaves and downed trees. In this latter role they directly impact the global carbon cycle, even on a geological time scale. Herbaria are important repositories documenting the identity and characteristics of specimens collected in association with scientific studies. The University Herbarium of the University of California, Berkeley (UC) has been expanding its mycological collections to meet the demands for better understanding of fungi in California and across North America. This award will provide safe storage for fungal collections that are now housed inadequately in a condemned building. It will also support local citizen science groups participating in "mycoblitzes" who need scientific expertise for collecting and identifying material. Public workshops on various aspects of fungal biology will also be held.The UC herbarium has been expanding its mycological collections to support a diversity of research on fungi: Their taxonomy, geographic distribution, ecology, morphological traits, and DNA. A push is beginning to survey the continent of North America, and the herbarium will play a critical role in the North American Mycoflora project as it has many types and historical collections that are necessary to anchor species names and document historical ranges. The current fungal collection housed at UC has roughly 215,000 specimens, and contains over 2000 fungal type collections, and many other collections of historical value. There is insufficient space for all the specimens, particularly the important, threatened collections currently housed in a remote storage site in a condemned building. Expansion room to house these collections exists in the main herbarium space in a modern, recently renovated academic building on campus, but compactors, carriages, and cases are lacking to complete the task. Compactor carriages will be installed on existing rails; 108 new cases plus 86 existing cases will be placed on the carriages, completing a move of the fungal collections into one coherent, safe arrangement.