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: 1115001
• 负责人: Francois Lutzoni
• 金额: $ 29.21万
• 依托单位: Duke University
• 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 2016-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1115001&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共同的生物学特征，这使得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，以解决跨时间和空间的重大环境事件导致物种分布如何变化的问题。具体来说，该项目将对北美地衣和苔藓植物标本馆中约 230 万个生物标本的标签信息（收集内容、时间、地点和人员）和图像进行数字化。这些藏品占加拿大、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。新的在线数字化技术将在 http://symbiota.org/nalichens/ 和 http://symbiota.org/bryophytes/ 上公开提供，并将允许感兴趣的公众参与并了解几乎整个北美苔藓植物和地衣藏品都可以在线获取，这将通过促进专业人士和公众之间的合作，大大加快对这些生物多样性的了解和评估。此外，根据这些数字化数据开发的模型将有助于未来对大规模物种分布进行绘图预测，并识别生物多样性热点作为主要的保护候选者。这些努力将有助于阐明哪些地区即将发生变化并可能产生重大影响，并促进采取积极主动的举措来缓解此类变化。该奖项是通过推进生物收藏数字化计划作为国家生物收藏数字化资源的一部分，该奖项产生的所有数据都将通过国家资源提供。