Digitization TCN: Collaborative: The Microfungi Collections Consortium: A Networked Approach toDigitizing Small Fungi with Large Impacts on the Function and Health of Ecosystems

数字化 TCN：协作：微型真菌收藏联盟：对对生态系统功能和健康产生重大影响的小型真菌进行数字化的网络方法

• 批准号: 1502703
• 负责人: Timothy James
• 金额: $ 11.83万
• 依托单位: Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-07-01 至 2018-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1502703&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Digitization; TCN; Collaborative; Microfungi; Collections

Microscopic fungi (microfungi) represent a diverse assemblage that is distributed worldwide and includes bread molds, plant pathogens, powdery mildews, rusts, slime molds, and water molds. A large percentage of these organisms are harmless or even beneficial, but some cause disease and death in animals, plants, and other fungi resulting in major economic loss and serious negative implications for human and ecosystem health. Despite their importance, little is known about their distribution, diversity, ecology, or host associations. This project is a collaborative effort involving 38 institutions in 31 states and aims to consolidate data from specimens housed in biodiversity collections for 2.3 million microfungi specimens and make these data available through online resources. The consolidation and increased accessibility of these data is critical to inform and promote new and innovative research, education and community engagement around this little-known but important group of organisms.Specimen data generated by this project will be used to assess natural and human-induced environmental changes on microfungi distributions, and evaluate the impact of these changes on the function and health of ecosystems. This project fills a critical gap in the national digitization effort by contributing images, digitizing specimen label data, and linking associated ancillary data for over 1.2 million North American specimens of microfungi. Additionally, nomenclature and taxonomic information will be updated to reflect the newest practices as dictated by the International Codes for Nomenclature. These data will provide a foundation for making informed decisions by agribusinesses, educators, forest managers, government agencies, horticulturalists, policy makers, researchers, and the general public. The broader education goals of this project will be facilitated through the development and implementation of a teaching module for high school biology on the economic importance of microfungi. 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).

显微真菌（microfungi）代表了一个多样化的组合，分布在世界各地，包括面包霉菌，植物病原体，白粉病，锈菌，黏菌和水霉菌。这些生物中的很大一部分是无害的，甚至是有益的，但有些会导致动物、植物和其他真菌的疾病和死亡，造成重大的经济损失，并对人类和生态系统健康产生严重的负面影响。尽管它们的重要性，很少有人知道它们的分布，多样性，生态，或主机协会。该项目是一项涉及31个州的38个机构的合作努力，旨在整合230万个微真菌标本的生物多样性收藏标本的数据，并通过在线资源提供这些数据。这些数据的整合和更大的可访问性对于告知和促进围绕这一鲜为人知但重要的生物群体的新的和创新的研究、教育和社区参与至关重要。该项目产生的样本数据将用于评估自然和人为引起的环境变化对微型真菌分布的影响，并评估这些变化对生态系统功能和健康的影响。该项目填补了国家数字化工作的一个关键空白，提供图像，数字化标本标签数据，并链接超过120万个北美微真菌标本的相关辅助数据。此外，还将更新命名和分类信息，以反映《国际命名规则》规定的最新做法。这些数据将为农业综合企业、教育工作者、森林管理者、政府机构、园艺家、政策制定者、研究人员和公众做出知情决策提供基础。将通过制定和实施关于微型真菌经济重要性的高中生物学教学模块，促进该项目更广泛的教育目标。该奖项是作为国家资源的一部分，通过推进生物收藏品数字化计划的生物收藏品的数字化，从这个奖项产生的所有数据将通过国家资源（iDigBio.org）提供。