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）的生活中起着关键作用，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、生态系统养分循环以及宿主生物的分布和多样性的影响至关重要。在过去的150年里，美国科学家一直在研究这些真菌，结果在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努力，将所有与大型真菌标本相关的数据数字化并在线共享。由此产生的资源将使以前从未尝试过的大型真菌的全国普查成为可能，并将使研究人员能够更好地了解这些生物的多样性以及大型真菌与与它们形成亲密关系的生物之间的关系。民间真菌学家组织成遍布全国的俱乐部，在记录大型真菌的多样性方面发挥着重要作用，这些热情的个人是专业科学家和公众之间关于野生食用真菌和有毒真菌的重要信息的渠道。公民真菌学家将加入这个项目的收藏机构，以帮助创建在线资源。该项目将为高中教师提供两个讲习班，以促进真菌的课堂学习。参与该项目的大学生将获得数字化工作经验，并接受真菌方面的正式培训。学生将通过口头和视频演示分享他们获得的知识。该奖项是国家生物馆藏数字化资源的一部分，通过推进生物馆藏数字化计划，该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).