Facilities Support for the University of Colorado Herbarium

科罗拉多大学植物标本馆的设施支持

• 批准号: 8815536
• 负责人: William Weber
• 金额: $ 24.11万
• 依托单位: University of Colorado at Boulder
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1989
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1989-07-01 至 1990-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=8815536&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Facilities; Support; University; Colorado; Herbarium

The University of Colorado Museum Herbarium contains 435,000 catalogued specimens. It is the principal state repository of botanical specimens and information for Colorado, with representation balanced between vascular plants, lichens, bryophytes, fungi and algae. While its emphasis centers on the Colorado flora, the geohistorical nature of the phytogeography of the Rocky Mountain area has required it to reach out and develop excellence in other areas, particularly the Altai of Middle Asia, the Caucasus, and Arctic America and Kamtchatka. The curator's field work has made the herbarium a leading international repository for lichens and bryophytes, including those of the Galapagos Islands, Australia and New Guinea. The herbarium is listed as a National Resource Herbarium by a committee of the American Society of Plant Taxonomists. This project provides funds to replace the static-aisle arrangement of the herbarium with a mechanically-assisted, mobile-aisle compactor system. Compactors are needed because of nearly filled cases and storage area. Over the past forty years, the herbarium has grown from the original 30,000 specimens at an average rate of 10,000 new specimens per year.

科罗拉多大学博物馆植物标本室包含435,000个分类标本。 它是植物标本和科罗拉多州信息的主要状态存储库，在血管植物，地衣，苔藓植物，真菌和藻类之间具有平衡的代表性。 尽管它的重点集中在科罗拉多州的植物区系，但落基山地区植物地理学的地理性质要求其在其他地区，尤其是中亚，高加索地区，北极美国和卡姆查特卡（Altai）的其他地区伸出并发展卓越。 策展人的野外工作使得植物标本室成为了地衣和苔藓植物的领先国际仓库，包括加拉帕戈斯群岛，澳大利亚和新几内亚的植物园。 植物园被美国植物分类学家学会委员会列为国家资源植物标本室。 该项目提供了资金，可以用机械辅助的移动设备压实系统来代替植物标本室的静态水平布置。 由于几乎填充的箱子和存储区域，需要压实器。 在过去的四十年中，植物标本室从最初的30,000个标本增长，平均每年10,000个新标本。