Global Biodiversity Resource for Monocot Plants (eMonocot)

这是一个建立一个新的单子叶植物生物多样性网络资源的建议。该网站将发展成为包含所有单子叶植物的分类处理，并提供丰富的相关生物多样性信息;它也将成为一个平台，可以在上面发布新的分类法，收集和整理新的生物信息。单子叶植物约占所有高等植物的20%（70，000种），包括许多具有最高保护，生态和经济重要性的群体（例如草，莎草，兰花，棕榈和天南星）。网络资源将以合作体成员编制的现有清单为基础。该联合会将提供大量的信息内容，但该项目也将提供工具，使世界单子叶植物分类学家能够在其专门知识领域作出贡献。虽然该项目的主要交付成果将是第一个基于网络的单子叶植物分类法，但该项目开发的所有信息和通信技术工具都将是完全通用的，适用于其他植物类别。我们还将确保它们可以用于动物分类学（有不同的命名要求），通过在已经有网络分类法的动物组上测试它们。最后，我们将与生命百科全书项目合作，以确保我们生成的内容可以被最广泛的最终用户使用。如果我们的项目成功，我们将彻底改变生物多样性科学核心的组织和访问方式。我们将从根本上改变基础和应用生物多样性科学的类型，我们认为这将对NERC的七大主题优先事项之一，生物多样性科学做出重大贡献。

This is a proposal to build a novel biodiversity web-resource for monocot plants. The site would grow to contain a taxonomic treatment of all monocots with rich associated biodiversity information; it would also be a platform on which new taxonomy can be published and new biological information collected and collated. Monocot plants constitute approximately 20% (70,000 species) of all higher plants and include numerous groups of the highest conservation, ecological and economic importance (for example grasses, sedges, orchids, palms and aroids). The web-resource will be based on an existing checklist prepared by consortium members. Considerable information content will be provided by the consortium, but also by the project providing the tools for the world community of monocot taxonomists to contribute in their areas of expertise. Though the major deliverable of the project will be the first Web-based taxonomy of the monocots, all the ICT tools developed in the project will be fully generic and applicable to other groups of plants. We shall also make sure that they can be used in zoological taxonomy (which have different nomenclatural requirements) by testing them on an animal group for which a Web taxonomy is already available. Finally, we shall work with the Encyclopedia of Life project to ensure that the content we generate can be used by the very broadest spectrum of end users. If our project is successful we shall have revolutionised the way the core of biodiversity science is organised and accessed. We will have radically changed the type of fundamental and applied biodiversity science that is possible and we argue will have made a major contribution to one of NERC's seven major thematic priorities, the science of biodiversity.