Digitizing and Databasing of the La Selva Flora

向杜克大学和热带研究组织提供了一笔赠款，用于对来自La Selva植物标本馆、杜克植物标本馆、国家生物多样性研究所和哥斯达黎加国家博物馆的20 000多个植物标本进行鉴定、成像和地理参考。 站这些收集所产生的数据库将提供给因特网，从而向学生和研究界提供全球范围内可查阅的、全面的、在拉塞尔瓦生物站发现的、代表加勒比低地热带雨林多样性的植物物种。La Selva的数字化植物群将包含分类信息，能够创建诊断物种描述，并驱动来自分类群x字符矩阵的交互式多条目电子钥匙。 热带植物群项目的影响将有利于拉塞尔瓦生物站的研究和教育活动。该空间站是培训美国研究生参加热带生态学和热带植物系统学实地课程的主要场所。过去50年来，拉塞尔瓦生物站积累了大量关于植物物种的知识，涉及具有全球影响的广泛问题，例如养护和保护生物多样性、资源管理以及努力了解热带森林在全球气候变化中的作用。

A grant has been awarded to Duke University and the Organization for Tropical Studies to digitize, image and geo-reference 20,000-plus plant specimens from the La Selva Herbarium collection, the Duke Herbarium, Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad (INBio) and the Museo Nacional de Costa Rica. Station. The database generated by these collections will be served to the Internet, thus providing students and the research community with a globally accessible, comprehensive coverage of plant species found at the La Selva Biological Station and representing Caribbean lowland tropical rainforest diversity. The Digital Flora of La Selva will contain taxonomic information, have the ability to create diagnostic species descriptions and drive interactive multiple entry electronic keys from taxon x character matrices. The impacts of the tropical flora project will benefit the research and educational activities of the La Selva Biological Station. The station is a prime site for training U.S. graduate students participating in the field courses in tropical ecology and tropical plant systematics. The wealth of knowledge about plant species that has been accumulated at the La Selva Biological Station over the past 50 years touches on a broad range of issues that have global implications, for example, in conserving and protecting biodiversity, resource management, and in trying to understand the role of tropical forests in global climate change.