Global Biodiversity Resource for Monocot Plants (eMonocot)

这是一种建立单子叶植物生物多样性网络资源的建议。该站点将发展为包含所有单子房植物的分类处理，并具有丰富的相关生物多样性信息；它还将成为一个发布新分类学和收集和整理新生物信息的平台。单子叶植物约占所有高等植物的20%（70,000种），包括许多具有最高保护、生态和经济重要性的类群（例如草、莎草、兰花、棕榈树和菊科植物）。网络资源将以联盟成员准备的现有清单为基础。大量的信息内容将由该联盟提供，但也由该项目提供工具，为世界单一植物分类学家社区在他们的专业领域作出贡献。虽然该项目的主要成果将是第一个基于网络的单子科植物分类，但该项目的所有信息通信技术工具将完全通用，并适用于其他植物组。我们还将在已经有Web分类法的动物类群上进行测试，以确保它们可以用于动物分类法（它们有不同的命名要求）。最后，我们将与生命百科全书项目合作，以确保我们生成的内容可以被最广泛的最终用户使用。如果我们的项目成功了，我们将彻底改变生物多样性科学核心的组织和获取方式。我们将从根本上改变可能的基础和应用生物多样性科学的类型，我们认为我们将对NERC的七个主要主题优先事项之一——生物多样性科学做出重大贡献。

This is a proposal to build a novel biodiversity web-resource for monocot plants. The site would grow to contain a taxonomic treatment of all monocots with rich associated biodiversity information; it would also be a platform on which new taxonomy can be published and new biological information collected and collated. Monocot plants constitute approximately 20% (70,000 species) of all higher plants and include numerous groups of the highest conservation, ecological and economic importance (for example grasses, sedges, orchids, palms and aroids). The web-resource will be based on an existing checklist prepared by consortium members. Considerable information content will be provided by the consortium, but also by the project providing the tools for the world community of monocot taxonomists to contribute in their areas of expertise. Though the major deliverable of the project will be the first Web-based taxonomy of the monocots, all the ICT tools developed in the project will be fully generic and applicable to other groups of plants. We shall also make sure that they can be used in zoological taxonomy (which have different nomenclatural requirements) by testing them on an animal group for which a Web taxonomy is already available. Finally, we shall work with the Encyclopedia of Life project to ensure that the content we generate can be used by the very broadest spectrum of end users. If our project is successful we shall have revolutionised the way the core of biodiversity science is organised and accessed. We will have radically changed the type of fundamental and applied biodiversity science that is possible and we argue will have made a major contribution to one of NERC's seven major thematic priorities, the science of biodiversity.