Digitization TCN Collaborative Research: North American Lichens and Bryophytes: Sensitive Indicators of Environmental Quality and Change

数字化 TCN 合作研究：北美地衣和苔藓植物：环境质量和变化的敏感指标

• 批准号: 1114886
• 负责人: Andrew Miller
• 金额: $ 10.57万
• 依托单位: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-07-01 至 2015-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1114886&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Digitization; TCN; Collaborative; Research; North

Lichens and bryophytes share biological traits that make them some of the most sensitive indicators of environmental change. The goal of this project is to provide high quality data to address how species distributions change as a result of major environmental events across time and space. Specifically, this project will digitize the label information (the what, when, where and by whom collected) and images for approximately 2.3 million biological specimens curated in North American lichen and bryophyte herbaria. These collections represent well over 90% of all specimens collected in Canada, the United States and Mexico and held by over 60 US non-governmental institutions. New, on-line digitization techniques will be made publically available at at http://symbiota.org/nalichens/ and http://symbiota.org/bryophytes/, and will allow interested members of the public to be involved and learn about biodiversity alongside the professionals.Availability of nearly the entire North American bryophyte and lichen collections on-line will greatly accelerate knowledge and evaluation of the biodiversity of these organisms by fostering collaborations between professionals and the general public. Additionally, models developed from these digitized data will aid future mapping projections of large scale species distributions and identification of biodiversity hotspots as prime candidates for protection. These endeavors will help to elucidate regions where changes are imminent and likely to have substantial impact, as well as to facilitate proactive initiatives to alleviate such changes. This award is made as part of the National Resource for Digitization of Biological Collections through the Advancing Digitization of Biological Collections program and all data resulting from this award will be available through the national resource.

地衣和苔藓植物具有生物学特征，使它们成为环境变化最敏感的指标。该项目的目标是提供高质量的数据，以解决由于跨时间和空间的重大环境事件而导致物种分布的变化。具体而言，该项目将数字化标签信息（收集的内容，何时，何时何地，何时何地，何时何地，以及在北美地衣和苔藓植物草药中策划的大约230万个生物标本的图像。这些收藏量占加拿大，美国和墨西哥收集的所有标本的90％以上，并由60多个美国非政府机构持有。新的，在线的数字化技术将在http://symbiota.org/nalichens/和http://symbiota.org/bryophytes/上公开获得，并将有兴趣的公众参与其中，并可以与全美的Brysive and contrenection and Accortions cromptions croment。通过促进专业人士与公众之间的合作来评估这些生物的生物多样性。此外，从这些数字化数据开发的模型将有助于大规模物种分布的未来映射预测，并将生物多样性热点鉴定为保护的主要候选者。这些努力将有助于阐明迫在眉睫并且可能产生重大影响的区域，并促进积极主动的举措以减轻这种变化。该奖项是通过生物收藏计划的数字化数字化将生物收集数字化的国家资源的一部分，该奖项产生的所有数据将通过国家资源获得。