RAMHSS: Computerization of Hawaiian Vascular Collections and Accomplishment of Specific Curatorial Projects in Herbarium Pacificum

太平洋植物标本馆是夏威夷主教博物馆的一部分， 自然历史博物馆，它拥有世界上最重要的 太平洋盆地植物的科学收藏。 的 植物标本馆长期以来一直是热带植物的研究中心， 植物学，并作为专业收藏品的储存库 和业余植物学家一样。 基于此集合的研究 提供了一个独特的理解，植物是如何进化的， 被数千英里的海水隔离的海洋岛屿，沿着 岛屿山脉，那里的栖息地类型多样， 沿相对短的距离被压缩沿着。 至关重要的是，这些收藏品的策划 并及时用于研究。 这给 研究人员为他们的结论提供了最完整的基础， 为收集者提供了他们所需的数据， 取样的重要领域。 自然历史收藏品， 因为太平洋植物标本馆为 生物研究，并保持他们是一个持续的优先事项 为科学界。

The Herbarium Pacificum is part of Hawaii's Bishop Museum of Natural History, and it houses one of the world's most important scientific collections of plants from the Pacific Basin. The Herbarium has long served as a research center for tropical botany, and as a repository for the collections of professional and amateur botanists alike. Research based on this collection provides a unique understanding of how plants have evolved on ocean islands isolated by thousands of miles of water, and along island mountain chains, where a diversity of habitat types are compressed along relatively short distances. It is critically important that these collections be curated and made available for research in a timely manner. This gives researchers the most complete basis for their conclusions, and gives collectors the data they need for choosing the most important areas for sampling. Natural history collections such as the Herbarium Pacificum provide unique resources for biological research, and maintaining them is an ongoing priority for the scientific community.