Enhancement and Compactorization of the National Tropical Botanical Garden Herbarium (PTBG) Collections

在David H. Lorence博士的指导下，国家热带植物园获得了一项奖励，用于为该花园的植物标本馆购买新的橱柜和移动存储系统。该藏品包括来自夏威夷和太平洋其他岛屿的57,000多个植物标本，是了解太平洋植物群生物多样性的宝贵资源。收藏正在积极增长，很快就会超过目前的存储容量。移动存储系统和机柜将增加潜在增长的空间，并为未来几十年提供新的存储基础设施。该集合被科学家和资源管理者广泛用于识别本地和引进的植物物种，并记录植物分布。学生、教师和公众也有机会接受热带植物学方面的培训。

An award has been made to the National Tropical Botanical Garden under the direction of Dr. David H. Lorence to purchase new cabinets and a mobile storage system for the herbarium at the Garden. The collection comprises more than 57,000 specimens of plants from Hawaii and other islands in the Pacific that is a valuable resource for understanding the biodiversity of the Pacific flora. The collection is actively growing and will soon outstrip the current capacity for storage. The mobile storage system and cabinets will increase the space for potential growth and provide new storage infrastructure for the next several decades. The collection is used extensively by scientists and resource managers to identify native and introduced species of plants and to document plant distributions. Students, teachers, and the public are also offered training opportunities in tropical botany.