Digitization TCN: Collaborative: American Crossroads: Digitizing the Vascular Flora of the South-Central United States

数字化 TCN：协作：美国十字路口：美国中南部维管植物区系数字化

• 批准号: 1902078
• 负责人: Peter Fritsch
• 金额: $ 149.7万
• 依托单位: Botanical Research Institute of Texas
• 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: 2019-09-01 至 2024-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1902078&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Digitization; TCN; Collaborative; American; Crossroads

The advent of data mobilization from biological specimens housed in U.S. institutions has profoundly enhanced the value of museum collections and has allowed scientific questions to be addressed in novel ways. The process of mobilization involves specimen digital image capture, transcription of label data, addition of geographic coordinates, and dissemination of the data through searchable online portals. This four-year project brings together 46 collaborating herbaria to mobilize the data from nearly two million plant specimens collected in the states of Oklahoma and Texas. Most of the herbaria in these states, as well as key herbaria from other states with large Oklahoma and Texas holdings, will participate. Because these two states constitute a major crossroads of North American ecological and plant diversity, digitizing their plant specimen data can serve as a key element for understanding ecosystem evolution across the North American continent. The project will include data for species of conservation concern, invasives, and environmental health indicators, thus enhancing species and habitat conservation and management and contributing to wide-ranging applications in biodiversity science. It will also involve as participants members of plant enthusiast organizations (such as native plant societies) in specimen data entry. The project will contribute to a globally competitive STEM workforce through workshops and lectures for its technicians and practical training for undergraduate interns.Digitized herbarium specimen data for the South-Central U.S. are sparse relative to other parts of the country, leaving a large geographic gap in our knowledge of North American plant biodiversity that impedes both regional and larger-scale efforts in solving environmental issues. To address this problem, the researchers will 1) establish a Thematic Collections Network (TCN) to digitize the data from nearly two million vascular plant herbarium specimens collected in Oklahoma and Texas; 2) disseminate the digitized data through an integrated online platform; 3) develop and implement innovative strategies to increase efficiency in specimen digitization; and 4) engage citizen scientists and students on project-based activities. The project is primed for action by its strong integration with the well-established Texas and Oklahoma Regional Consortium of Herbaria (TORCH; www.torcherbaria.org), which will help oversee and guide the project. Coordination with Integrated Digitized Biocollections (iDigBio.org) hub will facilitate team-wide meetings, broader impact elements, and data workflows, mobilization, and access. Natural history collections are well positioned for the analysis of global change and the resulting impacts on regional biota. In this context, the digitized herbarium specimen data from the TORCH TCN will provide the capacity for addressing major hypotheses in the region concerning patterns of species richness and phylogenetic diversity, vegetation responses to climate change, and species distribution models based on substrate versus climatic data. Results of the project will be widely disseminated through professional publications and society meetings, local chapters of plant-enthusiast communities, social media outlets, and blogs on the TORCH website.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.

从美国机构收藏的生物标本中获取数据的出现大大提高了博物馆藏品的价值，并使科学问题能够以新颖的方式得到解决。 调动过程涉及采集样本数字图像、转录标签数据、添加地理坐标以及通过可搜索的在线门户传播数据。 这个为期四年的项目汇集了46个合作的植物标本馆，从俄克拉荷马州和得克萨斯州收集的近200万个植物标本中收集数据。 这些州的大多数植物标本馆，以及来自其他拥有大量俄克拉荷马州和得克萨斯州的主要植物标本馆，都将参加。 由于这两个州构成了北美生态和植物多样性的主要十字路口，因此将其植物标本数据数字化可以作为了解整个北美大陆生态系统进化的关键因素。 该项目将包括有关养护问题物种、入侵物种和环境健康指标的数据，从而加强物种和生境的养护和管理，并促进生物多样性科学的广泛应用。 植物爱好者组织（如本地植物协会）的成员也将参与标本数据的输入。 该项目将通过为技术人员举办研讨会和讲座以及为本科生实习生提供实践培训，为培养具有全球竞争力的STEM人才做出贡献。美国中南部的数字化植物标本馆标本数据相对于该国其他地区而言较为稀少，这使得我们对北美植物生物多样性的了解存在很大的地理差距，阻碍了区域和更大规模解决环境问题的努力。为了解决这个问题，研究人员将1）建立一个专题收集网络（TCN），以收集来自俄克拉荷马州和德克萨斯州的近200万份维管植物标本馆标本的数据; 2）通过一个集成的在线平台传播数字化数据; 3）开发和实施创新战略，以提高标本数字化的效率;以及4）让公民科学家和学生参与基于项目的活动。该项目与历史悠久的得克萨斯州和俄克拉荷马州地区草药联合会（TORCH; www.torcherbaria.org）紧密结合，将有助于监督和指导该项目。与综合数字化生物收集（iDigBio.org）中心的协调将促进整个团队的会议，更广泛的影响因素，以及数据工作流程，动员和访问。自然历史收藏品非常适合分析全球变化及其对区域生物群的影响。 在这方面，来自火炬技术中心网络的数字化植物标本数据将提供能力，以解决该区域有关物种丰富度和系统发育多样性模式、植被对气候变化的反应以及基于基质与气候数据的物种分布模式的主要假设。该项目的成果将通过专业出版物和社会会议、植物爱好者社区的地方分会、社交媒体以及TORCH网站上的博客广泛传播。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并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，被认为值得支持。

项目成果

The colonial legacy of herbaria

• DOI: 10.1038/s41562-023-01616-7
• 发表时间: 2021-10
• 期刊: bioRxiv
• 作者: Daniel S. Park;Xiao Feng;S. Akiyama;M. Ardiyani;N. Avendaño;Z. Barina;Blandine Bartschi;Manuel J Belgr

A New Method for Counting Reproductive Structures in Digitized Herbarium Specimens Using Mask R-CNN

• DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2020.01129
• 发表时间: 2020-07-31
• 期刊: FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE
• 影响因子: 5.6
• 作者: Davis, Charles C.;Champ, Julien;Bonnet, Pierre
• 通讯作者: Bonnet, Pierre

Digitization and the Future of Natural History Collections

• DOI: 10.1093/biosci/biz163
• 发表时间: 2020-03-01
• 期刊: BIOSCIENCE
• 影响因子: 10.1
• 作者: Hedrick, Brandon P.;Heberling, J. Mason;Davis, Charles C.
• 通讯作者: Davis, Charles C.

Herbarium specimens reveal herbivory patterns across the genus Cucurbita

• DOI: 10.1002/ajb2.16126
• 发表时间: 2023-02-13
• 期刊: AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY
• 影响因子: 3
• 作者: Jenny，Laura A.;Shapiro，Lori R.;Meineke，Emily
• 通讯作者: Meineke，Emily

Phenological sensitivity to temperature mediates herbivory

对温度的物候敏感性介导食草

• DOI: 10.1111/gcb.15600
• 发表时间: 2021
• 期刊: Global Change Biology
• 影响因子: 11.6
• 作者: Meineke, Emily K.;Davis, Charles C.;Davies, T. Jonathan
• 通讯作者: Davies, T. Jonathan