Partnership to the New England Vascular Plant Network for the University of Maine Herbarium

与缅因大学植物标本馆新英格兰维管植物网络合作

• 批准号: 1503583
• 负责人: Christopher Campbell
• 金额: $ 6.84万
• 依托单位: University of Maine
• 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: 2015-05-01 至 2017-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1503583&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Partnership; New; England; Vascular; Plant

Data from Maine fills an important gap in the study of environmental changes in New England. The state comprises about half the total area of New England, extending about 2.5 degrees north and 3 degrees east of the rest of New England. Plant specimens in the University of Maine Herbarium record both the spatial and temporal distribution of species over the past 170 years. These specimens, along with associated data, inform the study of environmental changes in Maine and New England. In this project the University of Maine Herbarium will complete the databasing of specimen records and generate high-quality digital images of 55,000 plant specimens. These digitized data will contribute to the accomplishment of the research and outreach goals of the New England Vascular Plant Network.High quality images of herbarium specimens can be used to study shifts in the abundance, distribution, and reproduction of plants, as influenced by environmental change, document the number of populations of rare plants and the introduction and spread of invasive plants. They can also be used to gather information indicative of plant response to change, and train the public and professionals in techniques of plant identification, structure and developmental changes over time. The project will directly train undergraduates and members of an amateur botanical society. 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).

缅因州的数据填补了新英格兰环境变化的重要空白。该州约占新英格兰的总面积的一半，北面约2.5度，在新英格兰其他地区以东3度。缅因州植物标本室的植物标本记录了过去170年的物种的空间和时间分布。这些标本以及相关的数据为缅因州和新英格兰的环境变化的研究提供了信息。在这个项目中，缅因州植物标本室将完成标本记录的数据库，并产生55,000个植物标本的高质量数字图像。这些数字化数据将有助于实现新英格兰血管植物网络的研究和外展目标。植物标本标本的高质量图像可用于研究植物的丰度，分布和复制植物的变化，如环境变化的影响，受环境变化的影响，记录了稀有植物的数量以及入侵植物的传播和蔓延。它们还可以用于收集指示植物对变化的反应的信息，并培训公众和专业人员，以随着时间的推移而进行植物识别，结构和发育变化的技术。该项目将直接培训本科生和业余植物学社会的成员。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。