Global Biodiversity Resource for Monocot Plants (eMonocot)

这是一项为单子叶植物建立新的生物多样性网络资源的建议。该网站将发展为包含所有单子叶动物的分类处理，并提供丰富的相关生物多样性信息；它还将成为一个可以发布新的分类和收集和整理新的生物信息的平台。单子叶植物约占所有高等植物的20%(7万种)，包括许多具有最高保护、生态和经济重要性的类群(例如草、莎草、兰花、棕榈树和天南星科植物)。网络资源将以联盟成员编制的现有清单为基础。大量信息内容将由该联盟提供，但也将由为世界单子叶分类学家社区提供工具的项目提供，以便在其专业领域做出贡献。虽然该项目的主要成果将是第一个基于网络的单子叶植物分类，但项目中开发的所有信通技术工具都将完全通用，并适用于其他植物组。我们还将确保它们可以用于动物分类学(它们有不同的命名要求)，方法是在已经有Web分类法的动物组上进行测试。最后，我们将与生活百科全书项目合作，确保我们生成的内容能够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获取方式。我们将从根本上改变可能的基础和应用型生物多样性科学，我们认为将对NERC的七个主要主题优先事项之一--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.