Support of the Diatom Herbarium of The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia

费城自然科学院硅藻标本馆的支持

• 批准号: 9023358
• 负责人: Edward Theriot
• 金额: $ 10万
• 依托单位: Academy of Natural Sciences Philadelphia
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1991
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1991-11-15 至 1995-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9023358&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Support; Diatom; Herbarium; Academy; Natural

The Diatom Herbarium of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia contains more than 110,000 catalogued specimen slides, 224,000 uncatalogued lots, card files for 4,500 type specimens, 60,000 localities, 160,000 taxon occurrences, 51,000 bibliographic citations, and 200,000 unprocessed samples, making it the largest collection of its type in the western hemisphere. Dr. Edward Theriot, Curator in charge of the Herbarium, plans continued improvement in the physical preservation of specimens, especially type specimens, for use in pure and applied research. Diatoms are a diverse group of phytoplankton that are widely used as environmental indicators, and are the subjects on many biostratigraphic and evolutionary studies. Systematic collections of fossil and modern diatoms are essential to this research, and the Diatom Herbarium in Philadelphia is one of the world's most important collections of its type. Future research on global climate change, evolutionary processes, and environmental quality will rely on the continued growth and improvement of systematic collections such as this.

费城自然科学院硅藻标本馆包含超过 110,000 个编目标本载玻片、224,000 个未编目批次、4,500 个模式标本的卡片文件、60,000 个地点、160,000 个分类单元出现、51,000 条书目引文和 200,000 个未处理样本，使其成为最大的硅藻标本馆的集合它的类型在西半球。 负责植物标本馆的馆长爱德华·塞里奥特 (Edward Theriot) 博士计划继续改进标本的物理保存，特别是模式标本，以用于纯粹和应用研究。 硅藻是一类多样化的浮游植物，被广泛用作环境指标，也是许多生物地层学和进化研究的主题。 化石和现代硅藻的系统收藏对于这项研究至关重要，费城的硅藻标本馆是世界上最重要的同类收藏之一。 未来对全球气候变化、进化过程和环境质量的研究将依赖于此类系统收藏的持续增长和完善。