Assimilation of Orphaned Algal Collections into Herbarium Pacificum (BISH)

这个项目将把雅培个人收藏的海藻转移到伯尼斯·P·毕晓普博物馆，这样后代的研究人员和教育工作者就可以从中受益。所有与这些标本相关的信息都将被存入数据库，并被纳入博物馆的藻类收藏中。主要造礁藻类的正确名称将被解析。由此产生的藻类收藏将是世界上对太平洋地区藻类生物多样性最准确的全面记录。雅培收藏包含数千个有价值的海藻标本，这些标本记录了从库雷环礁到夏威夷岛和太平洋其他地方的夏威夷岛链的海洋造礁植物多样性。研究、监测和资源管理工作，特别是与海洋入侵物种威胁和其他环境变化有关的工作，是许多联邦、州和联邦政府的重要活动。可靠的记录和准确的分类鉴定，重点是造礁的珊瑚藻类，对于了解珊瑚礁生态系统的动态具有重要的生态学意义。这些数据对整个太平洋地区的任何有效资源管理都至关重要。博物馆的虚拟藻类标本馆将直接接入互联网，通过互动数据平台立即获得准确的信息和快速反应。教育的好处将从一般的物种信息和图像，到准确的已知分布，物种范围的可预测性，入侵物种的潜在传播，以及生态变化。

This project will transfer the Abbott personal collection of marine algae into the Bernice P. Bishop Museum's so that future generations of researchers and educators may benefit from them. All information associated with these specimens will be databased and assimilated into the Museum's algal collection. The correct names of the primary reef-building algae will be resolved. The resulting algal collection will be the most accurate comprehensive documentation of algal biodiversity of the Pacific region in the world.The Abbott Collection contains many thousands of valuable seaweed specimens that document the marine reef-building floristic biodiversity of the Hawaiian Island chain from Kure Atoll to the island of Hawaii and elsewhere in the Pacific. Research, monitoring and resource management efforts, especially pertinent to threats of marine invasive species and other environmental changes, are substantial activities of many federal, state, and commonwealth governments. Reliable records and accurate taxonomic identifications, with emphasis on the reef-building coralline algae, are of major ecological importance in understanding the dynamics of reef ecosystems. These data are crucial to any effective resource management throughout the Pacific. The Museum's virtual algal herbarium direct Internet access will enable immediate availability of precision information and rapid response via interactive data platforms. Educational benefits will range from general species information and images, to accurate known distribution, species range predictability, potential spread of invasive species, and ecological changes.