Digitization PEN: Integration of data from the Triplehorn Insect Collection with the Southwestern Collections of Arthropods Network.

该项目将捕捉和传播两个重要指示动物群体的地理分布、物种多样性和生活史的数据：暗色甲虫和地面甲虫。这些数据将从俄亥俄州立大学教职员工过去70年来从德克萨斯州到南加州的收集中获得。信息将从8万个样本的单个标签转录，并上传到公众可访问的数据库中。该项目是与现有的节肢动物西南采集网络(SCAN)的合作项目，将使这些目标甲虫群体的现有数据增加一倍以上。美国西南部过去一个世纪的戏剧性变化导致了对资源的更大压力，特别是水。过去和未来的变化将表现为该地区动植物群落的变化。该项目寻求增加数据，以填补扫描TCN项目中两个甲虫科--拟步甲科和步甲科--的关键空白。这些数据将对监测和评估该区域的环境变化及其对生物多样性的影响作出重大贡献。该奖项是通过推进生物收藏数字化计划作为国家生物收藏数字化资源的一部分颁发的，由该奖项产生的所有数据将通过国家资源(iDigBio.org)获得。

This project will capture and disseminate data on the geographic distribution, species diversity, and life history for two important indicator groups of animals: the darkling beetles and ground beetles. These data will be acquired from collections made over the past 70 years from Texas to southern California by faculty and staff of the Ohio State University. Information will be transcribed from the individual labels on 80 thousand specimens and uploaded into publicly accessible databases. The project is a partnership with an existing project, the Southwestern Collections of Arthropods Network (SCAN), and will more than double the available data for these targeted groups of beetles.Dramatic changes in the American Southwest over the past century has resulted in greater pressure for resources, particularly water. Past and future changes will be visible as alterations in the community of plants and animals of the region. This project seeks to add data that fills critical gaps in the SCAN TCN project for two families, Tenebrionidae and Carabidae, of beetles. These data will be a major contribution to monitoring and assessing environmental changes in the region and their effects on biological diversity. 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).