Digitization TCN: Collaborative: The Macrofungi Collection Consortium: Unlocking a Biodiversity Resource for Understanding Biotic Interactions, Nutrient Cycling and Human Affairs

大型真菌收集联盟：解锁生物多样性资源，了解生物相互作用，营养循环和人类事务蘑菇和相关真菌（大型真菌）在植物和动物（包括人类）的生活中发挥着关键作用，但它们的多样性被低估了。了解这种多样性对于分析生境变化的影响、生态系统中的养分循环以及宿主生物的分布和多样性至关重要。 在过去的150年里，美国科学家一直在研究这些真菌，在24个州的35个机构中保存了大约140万份干燥的科学标本。 这些机构现在已经加入了努力，在线共享与大型真菌标本相关的所有数据。 由此产生的资源将使全国大型真菌普查，从来没有尝试过，并将使研究人员更好地了解这些生物的多样性和大型真菌与它们形成亲密关系的生物之间的关系。组织成全国各地的俱乐部，公民真菌学家在记录大型真菌多样性方面发挥重要作用，而这些热心的人，则是专业科学家与大众之间，有关野生食用菌与毒菌的重要资讯的管道。 公民真菌学家将加入该项目的收藏机构，以帮助创建在线资源。 该项目将资助两个高中教师讲习班，以促进真菌的课堂研究。 该项目雇用的大学生将获得有关真菌的数字化和正式培训的工作经验。 学生将分享他们通过口头和视频演示获得的知识。该奖项是作为国家资源的一部分，通过推进生物收藏品数字化计划的生物收藏品的数字化，从这个奖项产生的所有数据将通过国家资源（iDigBio.org）提供。

The Macrofungi Collection Consortium: Unlocking a Biodiversity Resource for Understanding Biotic Interactions, Nutrient Cycling and Human AffairsMushrooms and related fungi (macrofungi) play a critical role in the lives of plants and animals, including humans, yet their diversity is underestimated. Understanding this diversity will be critical in analyzing impacts of habitat change, nutrient cycling in ecosystems, and distributions and diversity of host organisms. Scientists in the U.S. have been studying these fungi for the past 150 years, resulting in a legacy of approximately 1.4 million dried scientific specimens conserved in 35 institutions in 24 states. These institutions have now joined in an effort to digitize and share online all data associated with macrofungi specimens. The resulting resource will enable a national census of macrofungi, never before attempted, and will allow researchers to better understand the diversity of these organisms and the relationship between macrofungi and the organisms with which they form intimate relationships.Organized into clubs across the country, citizen mycologists play an important role in documenting macrofungi diversity, and these enthusiastic individuals are the conduit between professional scientists and the general public for critical information about wild edible and poisonous fungi. Citizen mycologists will join the collections institutions in this project to help to create the on-line resource. The project will fund two workshops for high school teachers to promote classroom study of fungi. University students employed by the project will gain work experience in digitization and formal training about fungi. Students will share the knowledge they gain through oral and video presentations. This award is made as part of the National Resource for Digitization of Biological Collections through the Advancing Digitization of Biological Collections program and all data resulting from this award will be available through the national resource (iDigBio.org).