CSBR: Living Stocks: Securing a Living Collection of Rare Plants at the Montgomery Botanical Center Through the Installation of an Automatic Backup Generator System.

CSBR：生物种群：通过安装自动备份发电机系统确保蒙哥马利植物中心珍稀植物的活收藏。蒙哥马利植物中心(MBC)被授予安装自动备用电源系统以保护其珍稀植物收藏品供社区使用。MBC活体种群收集有助于促进对生物学众多领域的科学理解。该设施通过其历史悠久的和正在进行的植物勘探实地工作，以及其位于无霜冻的亚热带南佛罗里达州的地理位置，提供了美国最多样化和最全面的棕榈树和苏铁收集。此外，除了在研究和教育中使用外，维护这些收藏品还可以减少实地收集的需要，防止物种从其自然栖息地灭绝。然而，南佛罗里达州容易发生更频繁的闪电和飓风袭击，这些危险威胁到藏品的安全。佛罗里达州的电力损失与闪电和风高度相关，这种中断给温室里的嫩苗和冷藏中的活牲畜造成了危险的条件。因此，这些设施的备用电力将确保这些收藏品继续向研究人员和公众提供更多服务。MBC与当地机构密切合作，包括美国一些最多元化的大学社区。MBC还充分利用其生活收藏用于教育、培训、扩大参与和公众对科学的理解。这是通过服务学习计划、带薪奖学金、频繁的学生实地考察、高中实习、志愿者计划、导游以及频繁的在线和印刷出版物来实现的。该项目将确保活体藏品的持续安全，以供进一步研究使用。最近对MBC活体藏品繁殖和冷冻存储环境的改进提高了存活率，导致了藏品的更大多样性。该项目将安装一个自动备用发电机系统，以确保向传播和废物储存设施提供不间断的电力。这将确保关键环境系统(反渗透水过滤、定时喷雾和灌溉、空气循环、环境控制和超低温冷冻系统)能够在短期到长期停电的情况下发挥作用。这次升级将确保这些活着的收藏品的长期安全，以及它们未来为NSF生物资助研究社区提供的服务。确保低温储存和繁殖设施的稳定环境还将进一步增加活的收藏品的潜在多样性，有助于接触到更广泛的潜在用户群。该项目的成果可以在蒙哥马利植物中心网站(http://www.montgomerybotanical.org/Collection.htm).上找到

CSBR: Living Stocks: Securing a Living Collections of Rare Plants at the Montgomery Botanical Center Through the Installation of an Automatic Backup Generator System.An award is made to the Montgomery Botanical Center (MBC) to install an automatic backup power system to secure its collections for community use. MBC living stock collections help advance scientific understanding in numerous fields in biology. The facility provides the most diverse and thoroughly documented collections of palms and cycads in the US, through its historic and ongoing plant exploration fieldwork, as well as its location in frost-free, subtropical South Florida. In addition, to their use in research and education, maintaining these collections reduces the need for field collecting, preventing the extirpation of species from their natural habitats. However, South Florida is prone to more frequent lightning and hurricane strikes and these hazards threaten the security of the collection. Loss of electrical power in Florida is highly correlated with lightning and wind, and such interruptions create dangerous conditions for tender seedlings in the greenhouse, and living stocks in cold storage. Thus, backup power for these facilities will ensure continued and increased service of this collection to researchers and to the public. MBC closely collaborates with local institutions, including some of the most diverse university communities in the US. MBC also fully leverages its living collection for education, training, broadened participation, and public understanding of science. This is accomplished through programs in service learning, paid fellowships, frequent student fieldtrips, high school internships, volunteer programs, guided tours, and frequent online and printed publications. This project will ensure continued security of the living collections for further research use. Recent improvements to MBC's living collections propagation and cryostorage environment have improved survivability, leading to greater diversity of the collection. This project will install an automatic backup generator system to ensure uninterrupted electrical power to the propagation and cyrostorage facilities. This will ensure that critical environmental systems (reverse osmosis water filtration, timed mist and irrigation, air circulation, environmental controls, and ultracold freezer systems) can function in the event of a short- to long-term power outage. This upgrade will ensure the long-term security of these living collections, and their future service to the NSF BIO-funded research community. Ensuring a stable environment for cryostorage and propagation facilities will also further increase the potential diversity of the living collections, helping to reach a broader pool of potential users. The outcomes of this project can be found on the Montgomery Botanical Center website (http://www.montgomerybotanical.org/Collection.htm).