CSBR: Natural History: Critical Access and Storage for the Mycological Collections at the University of California, Berkeley

真菌是所有陆地生态系统的重要组成部分，它们在植物和动物中扮演着互利主义者，寄生虫和寄生虫的重要角色。 世界上大多数重要的植物病原体，如栗疫病、荷兰榆树病、橡树枯萎病和白松疱锈病都是真菌。 此外，真菌是负责回收落叶和倒下的树木等有机物质的主要分解者。 在后一种作用中，它们直接影响全球碳循环，甚至在地质时间尺度上。 植物标本馆是记录科学研究中收集的标本的身份和特征的重要储存库。 加州大学伯克利分校（UC）的大学植物标本馆一直在扩大其真菌学收藏，以满足更好地了解加州和整个北美真菌的需求。 该奖项将为真菌收藏品提供安全的储存，这些收藏品现在被安置在一个被谴责的建筑物中。 它还将支持当地公民科学团体参与“mycoblitzes”，他们需要科学专门知识来收集和鉴定材料。 加州大学植物标本馆一直在扩大其真菌收藏，以支持真菌的多样性研究：它们的分类，地理分布，生态，形态特征和DNA。 一个推动正在开始调查北美大陆，植物标本馆将发挥关键作用，在北美菌群项目，因为它有许多类型和历史收藏，是必要的锚物种名称和文件的历史范围。 目前在UC收藏的真菌标本大约有215，000个，包含2000多个真菌类型的集合，以及许多其他具有历史价值的集合。 没有足够的空间来存放所有的标本，特别是那些重要的、受到威胁的标本，这些标本目前存放在一座废弃建筑物的偏远储存地点。 在校园内一座现代化的、最近翻新的学术建筑中，主要的植物标本馆空间有容纳这些藏品的扩展空间，但缺少压实机、马车和箱子来完成这项任务。 压实机车厢将安装在现有的轨道上; 108个新病例加上86个现有病例将被放置在车厢上，完成真菌收集到一个连贯的，安全的安排。

The fungi are critical components of all terrestrial ecosystems, where they play important roles as mutualists, parasites, and commensals in both plants and animals. Most of the world's important plant pathogens, such as chestnut blight, Dutch elm disease, oak wilt, and white pine blister rust are fungi. In addition, fungi are the primary decomposers responsible for recycling organic matter such as fallen leaves and downed trees. In this latter role they directly impact the global carbon cycle, even on a geological time scale. Herbaria are important repositories documenting the identity and characteristics of specimens collected in association with scientific studies. The University Herbarium of the University of California, Berkeley (UC) has been expanding its mycological collections to meet the demands for better understanding of fungi in California and across North America. This award will provide safe storage for fungal collections that are now housed inadequately in a condemned building. It will also support local citizen science groups participating in "mycoblitzes" who need scientific expertise for collecting and identifying material. Public workshops on various aspects of fungal biology will also be held.The UC herbarium has been expanding its mycological collections to support a diversity of research on fungi: Their taxonomy, geographic distribution, ecology, morphological traits, and DNA. A push is beginning to survey the continent of North America, and the herbarium will play a critical role in the North American Mycoflora project as it has many types and historical collections that are necessary to anchor species names and document historical ranges. The current fungal collection housed at UC has roughly 215,000 specimens, and contains over 2000 fungal type collections, and many other collections of historical value. There is insufficient space for all the specimens, particularly the important, threatened collections currently housed in a remote storage site in a condemned building. Expansion room to house these collections exists in the main herbarium space in a modern, recently renovated academic building on campus, but compactors, carriages, and cases are lacking to complete the task. Compactor carriages will be installed on existing rails; 108 new cases plus 86 existing cases will be placed on the carriages, completing a move of the fungal collections into one coherent, safe arrangement.