U.S.-Argentina Collaborative Reserach: Online Illustrated Catalog of the Vascular Plants of Yaboti Biosphere Reserve, Misiones, Argentina

这个美国-阿根廷奖项将支持威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校的Paul E.Berry博士和阿根廷圣伊西德罗植物学达尔文研究所的Fernando O.Zuloaga博士，将两个机构的资源结合起来，传播来自阿根廷密西因斯省的生物清单数据的结果。这个项目的共同支持来自生物多样性调查和清单计划。国际生物多样性研究所将使用一个由达尔文中心托管的网站，提供对该地区植物收集的详细数据库的在线访问。米西奥内斯省拥有现存最大的完整大西洋森林，是阿根廷植物多样性最集中的地区。该网站将提供一个基于物种页面的直观界面，该页面将集中有关特定物种的所有可用信息。该地点将包括地理信息系统地图设施，以空间显示物种和植被类型的出现。他们将使用交互式在线密钥来促进来自大西洋森林的科、属和物种的识别。这是世界上最多样化和最受威胁的生态系统之一。这两个受人尊敬的植物学机构的专业知识将提供一个传播植物学成果的模式，同时为参与该项目的美国研究生提供培训机会。

0405517BerryThis U.S.- Argentina award will provide support for Dr. Paul E. Berry, University of Wisconsin, Madison, and his counterpart, Dr. Fernando O. Zuloaga of Instituto de Botanica Darwinion in San Isidro, Argentina, to combine the resources of both institutions to disseminate the results of a biological inventory data from the Misines Province in Argentina. Co-support for this project comes from the Biodiversity Surveys and Inventories Program.The Pis will use a web site hosted by the Darwinion to provide online access to a detailed database of plant collections from the region. The Misiones Province possesses the largest remaining intact tracts of Atlantic forests that represent the greatest concentration of plant diversity in Argentina. The website will provide an intuitive interface based on species pages that will concentrate all available information on a given species. The site will include GIS mapping facilities to spatially display occurrences of species and vegetation types. They will use interactive online keys to facilitate identification of families, genera, and species from the Atlantic forests. This is one of the most diverse and threatened ecosystems in the world.The expertise of these two respected botanical institutions will provide a model of disseminating botanical results, while providing training opportunities to U.S. graduate students involved in the project.