Digitization PEN: Enhancing the SoRo TCN with collections of taxonomic, geographic, and historic significance from the Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden Herbarium

数字化 PEN：通过兰乔圣安娜植物园植物标本馆的分类学、地理和历史意义的收藏来增强 SoRo TCN

• 批准号: 1901889
• 负责人: Mare Nazaire
• 金额: $ 14.98万
• 依托单位: Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-09-15 至 2023-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1901889&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Digitization; PEN; Enhancing; SoRo; TCN

The Southern Rocky Mountain Region (SoRo) supports a rich and fragile flora of diverse habitats and narrow ecological niches derived from unique geographic origins and evolutionary histories. The Herbarium at Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden (RSABG) has a unique, data-rich, and curated but currently inaccessible collection of 60,700 vascular plant specimens from the SoRo region, the digitization of which will tailor seamlessly with the ongoing Digitization Thematic Collections Network (TCN) "Using Herbarium Data to Document Plant Niches in the High Peaks and High Plains of the Southern Rockies - Past, Present, and Future." Timely digitization of RSABG's significant collections will be instrumental to enhancing the TCN and enable researchers to examine contemporary patterns of distribution, identify signatures of diversification, predict future environmental change, and help to mitigate negative impacts of climate change and habitat alteration. Digitization includes 30,960 specimens especially noteworthy for their relevance to science, collector, and taxonomy. Integral to the project are the activities that involve graduate students and undergraduate interns. Students will be trained in all aspects of collections management and digitization. Undergraduate interns will participate in four workshops that will serve to connect students to collections, biodiversity, and conservation of the SoRo region. Additionally, through coordinated efforts with California Polytechnic University, Pomona (CPP; a Hispanic Serving Institution), undergraduate students in CPP's Form & Function in Plants class will barcode 50% of the project specimens as partial fulfillment of their course objectives. An exhibit at RSABG will highlight the activities and student participation in the project.The flora of the Southern Rocky Mountain region (SoRo) is composed of plants with unique evolutionary histories driven by orogenic factors and long- and short-term climatic shifts associated with continental glaciations. Such abiotic factors have greatly influenced elevational changes in community structure, large-scale geographic range shifts, patterns of rapid diversification, and ecological niche evolution. These histories and dynamic abiotic phenomena have yielded varied ecosystems and geological substrates that support numerous endemics and/or narrowly adapted species. The uniqueness of the SoRo region provides an excellent model area in which to examine patterns of diversification, niche evolution, and endemism. As part of the SoRo Thematic Collections Network (TCN), the Herbarium at Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden (RSABG) aims to digitize and mobilize data from 60,700 herbarium specimens relevant to the SoRo region and contribute to the larger goals of the project and strengthen the TCN. Specimens targeted for this project include 30,960 especially noteworthy specimens based on their relevance to science, collector, and taxonomy, and are emblematic of the unique strengths of the RSABG Herbarium. A large cadre of students at different levels in their academic career will participate in all aspects of the project, including databasing, imaging, and georeferencing. All data resulting from this project will be shared with iDigBio (idigbio.org) and the Global Biodiversity Information Facility through SoRo's Symbiota portal as well as RSABG's Herbarium web portal. Additional information about RSABG, its outreach activities, and the results of this project is available online (www.rsabg.org).This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

南落基山脉地区（索罗）拥有丰富而脆弱的植物群，其栖息地和狭窄的生态位来自独特的地理起源和进化历史。 兰乔圣安娜植物园（RSABG）的植物标本馆拥有独特的，数据丰富的，精心策划的，但目前无法访问的60，700个来自索罗地区的维管植物标本，其数字化将与正在进行的数字化主题收集网络（TCN）无缝定制“使用植物标本馆数据记录南落基山脉高峰和高平原的植物小生境-过去，现在，和未来。“RSABG重要藏品的及时数字化将有助于加强TCN，并使研究人员能够研究当代分布模式，识别多样化的特征，预测未来的环境变化，并有助于减轻气候变化和栖息地改变的负面影响。 数字化包括30，960个标本，特别值得注意的是它们与科学，收藏家和分类学的相关性。 该项目的组成部分是涉及研究生和本科生实习生的活动。 学生将接受馆藏管理和数字化各个方面的培训。 本科实习生将参加四个研讨会，这些研讨会将有助于学生与索罗地区的收藏，生物多样性和保护联系起来。 此外，通过与波莫纳加州理工大学（CPP;西班牙裔服务机构）的协调努力，CPP的植物类形式功能的本科生将条形码50%的项目标本作为其课程目标的部分实现。 南落基山脉地区（索罗）的植物群由具有独特进化历史的植物组成，这些植物受到造山因素和与大陆冰川相关的长期和短期气候变化的驱动。 这些非生物因素极大地影响了群落结构的海拔变化、大规模的地理范围转移、迅速多样化的模式和生态位的演变。 这些历史和动态的非生物现象产生了不同的生态系统和地质基质，支持许多地方性和/或适应范围狭窄的物种。 索罗地区的独特性提供了一个很好的模型区域，在其中检查多样化，生态位进化和特有性的模式。 作为索罗专题收藏网络的一部分，兰乔圣安娜植物园的植物标本馆旨在收集和调动与索罗地区有关的60，700个植物标本馆标本的数据，为该项目的更大目标做出贡献，并加强TCN。 该项目的目标标本包括30，960个特别值得注意的标本，这些标本与科学，收藏家和分类学有关，是RSABG植物标本馆独特优势的象征。 在他们的学术生涯中，不同层次的学生将参与该项目的各个方面，包括数据库，成像和地理参考。 该项目产生的所有数据将通过索罗的Symbiota门户网站以及RSABG的植物标本馆门户网站与iDigBio（idigbio.org）和全球生物多样性信息机制共享。 有关RSABG的其他信息，其推广活动，以及该项目的结果可在网上获得（www.rsabg.org）。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估的支持。