Jepson Manual Project

这项提案要求为参与编辑手稿这一关键步骤的三名学术工作人员提供工资补贴，并要求支付编写杰普森手册：加州维管植物的某些其他最终费用。杰普森手册是对美国植物学最丰富的地区(约7800个属下分类群，或除墨西哥以外的北美高等植物分类群的至少四分之一)的全面、权威、简明、易用和最新的处理方法。它已经筹备了八年，现在有180名撰稿人和七名工作人员；它将于1992年底出版。杰普森手册项目具有国家意义，因为它在促进系统研究方面的作用，它与北美植物群项目的密切关系，加州植物分类群(其中许多是特有或濒危的)的丰富性和复杂关系，以及它对几种新信息的开发和利用。单一的、合理的价格卷被设计为系统信息的开发者和分发者(系统植物学家)与高度多样化的潜在信息用户之间的桥梁。

This proposal requests salary subvention for three academic staff members involved in the critical step of editing manuscripts and certain other final costs of preparing The Jepson Manual: Vascular Plants of California. The Jepson Manual is a comprehensive, authoritative, concise, accessible, and up-to-date treatment of the botanically richest region in the United States (ca. 7,800 infrageneric taxa, or at least a quarter of the higher plant taxa of North America outside Mexico). It has been in preparation for eight years and now involves 180 contributing authors and a staff of seven; it will be published by the end of 1992. The Jepson Manual Project is of national significance because of its role in stimulating systematic research, its close relationship to the Flora of North America Project, the richness and complex relationships of Californian plant taxa (many of which are endemic or endangered), and its development and use of several new kinds of information. The single, reasonable priced volume is designed as a bridge between the developers and dispensers of systematic information (systematic botanists) and the highly diverse, potential users of that information.