Digitization TCN: Collaborative Research: Using Herbarium Data To Document Plant Niches In The High Peaks And High Plains Of The Southern Rockies - Past, Present, And Future

数字化 TCN：合作研究：利用植物标本馆数据记录落基山脉南部高峰和高原的植物生态位 - 过去、现在和未来

• 批准号: 1702322
• 负责人: Michaela Schmull
• 金额: $ 40.5万
• 依托单位: Harvard University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-09-01 至 2022-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1702322&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Digitization; TCN; Collaborative; Research; Using

The rugged and expansive terrain of the Southern Rocky Mountains (SoRo) yields the most crucial resource for human existence in western North America: Water. From upper reaches of the high peaks of Colorado, Wyoming, New Mexico, and surrounding states, the headwaters of numerous major rivers of the West originate and give rise to the highest outflow and freshwater runoff west of the Mississippi River: The Platte, Arkansas, Rio Grande, Colorado, and Green Rivers and portions of the Snake and Missouri Rivers. The cleanliness and reliability of these water resources are in large part attributable to the plant life that forms the basis for all SoRo ecosystems. Plant species from the high peaks and adjacent high plains of the SoRo derive from different geographic origins, evolutionary histories, and ecological affinities. They grow in varied habitats and represent one of the most narrowly adapted floras in the world. This unique and fragile flora is widely documented in natural history collections (i.e., herbaria), but specimens themselves and the scientific data that accompany them remain poorly 'visible' owing to a lack of data in digitized format. The SoRo Herbarium Consortium brings together 38 collaborating institutions (universities, botanical gardens, national parks, Native American Nations) to digitize more than 1.7 million botanical specimens from the study area. The overarching goal of this project is to make these data available to a broad community of users (scientists, educators, government officials, land managers, the general public) via openly accessible, free data portals. The Southern Rocky Mountains (SoRo) support a diverse and highly adapted flora of species with varied ecologies, ranging from alpine to sagebrush plains to shortgrass prairies. The plant biota of the SoRo shares important evolutionary and geological histories with the adjacent plains and prairies, and together these ecosystems are among the most endangered landscapes in North America. Human demands on these systems are escalating, and risk factors such as fire, development, and environmental change are predicted to grow. Thus, building digital resources to document plant niches in the SoRo is met with a sense of urgency. The proposed work will address a major gap in accessible information among North American natural history collections by digitizing more than 1.7 million botanical collections from the SoRo. Specifically, 38 collaborative institutions (universities, botanical gardens, national parks, Native American Nations) will collaborate to generate these new resources and make them available via data portals, including iDigBio (www.idigbio.org). Additionally, new tools will be developed within the open source Symbiota platform that will allow users to quickly search and compile vetted, herbarium data records that can then be used for analysis in external software applications such as niche modeling packages, or to update source data repositories for subsequent in-house curation.

南落基山脉(索罗)崎岖辽阔的地形产生了北美西部人类生存最关键的资源：水。从科罗拉多州、怀俄明州、新墨西哥州和周边各州的高峰期的上游，西部许多主要河流的源头发源并产生密西西比河以西的最高流量和淡水径流：阿肯色州的普拉特河、科罗拉多州的格兰德河、绿河和蛇河和密苏里河的部分河段。这些水资源的清洁和可靠在很大程度上要归功于构成所有索罗生态系统基础的植物生命。来自索罗山高峰和邻近高平原的植物物种来自不同的地理起源、进化史和生态亲缘关系。它们生长在不同的栖息地，代表着世界上适应范围最窄的植物群之一。这种独特而脆弱的植物区系在自然历史收藏品(即草本植物)中得到了广泛的记录，但由于缺乏数字化格式的数据，标本本身和伴随它们的科学数据仍然很难被“看到”。索罗植物标本馆联盟汇集了38个合作机构(大学、植物园、国家公园、美洲原住民)，将来自研究地区的170多万份植物标本数字化。该项目的首要目标是通过可公开访问的免费数据门户，将这些数据提供给广大用户(科学家、教育工作者、政府官员、土地管理人员、普通公众)。南落基山脉(SORO)支持着从高山到山艾树平原到短草草原的各种生态物种的多样化和高度适应性的植物群落。索罗河的植物生物群与邻近的平原和草原有着重要的进化和地质历史，这些生态系统加在一起是北美最濒危的景观之一。人类对这些系统的需求正在升级，火灾、发展和环境变化等风险因素预计将会增加。因此，建立数字资源来记录索罗的植物利基市场是一种紧迫感。这项拟议的工作将通过数字化来自索罗的170多万件植物学藏品来解决北美自然历史藏品在可获得信息方面的一个重大差距。具体地说，38个合作机构(大学、植物园、国家公园、美洲原住民)将合作生成这些新资源，并通过iDigBio(www.idigBio.org)等数据门户网站提供。此外，将在开放源码的Symbiota平台内开发新的工具，使用户能够快速搜索和汇编经过审查的标本馆数据记录，然后这些记录可用于外部软件应用程序，如生态位模型包的分析，或用于更新源数据储存库，以便随后进行内部管理。