The Botany and Ecology of Los Amigos, Peru: Expanded Exploration and Consolidation of Old and New Datasets for a Lowland Neotropical Flora in Madre de Dios.

亚马逊西南部可能是亚马逊河上游和安第斯山脉下游生态系统中最大和受干扰最少的地区。 秘鲁马德雷德迪奥斯省以马德雷德迪奥斯河流域和支流为主，是原始西南亚马逊地区重要的地缘政治区域。研究活动将包括对这一生物多样性地区的栖息地调查和植物名录，并将产生实地指南、在线识别工具和其他资源。这项研究还将整合以前对该地区进行的几项不太全面的植物学和生态学研究的历史数据。通过该项目支助的调查和盘存活动将为各种数字和印刷形式的出版物和信息产品提供数据和图像。该研究还将作为一个试验平台，用于将库存数据与信息管理的创新技术相连接，因为标本数据、图像和生态数据集将在德克萨斯州植物研究所的中庭生物多样性信息系统中随时可用。该项目涉及教育，培训和推广活动，将从事植物学和生态学博士后研究员，研究生，秘鲁本科生，以及每年访问德克萨斯州教育计划植物研究所的众多学生和教师。这项研究将使感兴趣的公众更接近植物和栖息地清单的技术和产品，以及亚马逊生态系统的价值、多样性和美丽。

The Southwestern Amazon contains what is probably the largest and least disturbed area remaining of Upper Amazonian and Lower Andean ecosystems. The Department of Madre de Dios, Peru, dominated by the Madre de Dios River basin and tributaries, is an important geopolitical region in the pristine SW Amazon. Research activities will include habitat surveys and botanical inventories of this biologically diverse area, and will result in field guides, online identification tools, and other resources. The study will also integrate historical data from several previous less comprehensive botanical and ecological studies of this area. The survey and inventory activities supported through this project will provide data and images for a variety of publications and information products to come in digital and print format. The study will also serve as a testbed for connecting inventory data with innovative techniques of information management, as specimen data, images, and ecological datasets will be readily available in the Atrium Biodiversity Information System of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas. This project involves education, training, and outreach activities that will engage a postdoctoral fellow in botany and ecology, a graduate student, Peruvian undergraduate students, and numerous students and teachers that visit the Botanical Research Institute of Texas education program on a yearly basis. This study will bring the interested public closer to the techniques and products of plant and habitat inventory, and to the value, diversity, and beauty of Amazonian ecosystems.