Collaborative Research: Digitization TCN: Mobilizing New England Vascular Plant Specimen Data to Track Environmental Changes

合作研究：数字化 TCN：利用新英格兰维管植物标本数据来跟踪环境变化

• 批准号: 1208973
• 负责人: David Barrington
• 金额: $ 10.63万
• 依托单位: University of Vermont & State Agricultural College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-07-01 至 2017-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1208973&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Digitization; TCN; Mobilizing

Herbarium specimens provide a source of historical information useful to the study of global environmental change. The goal of this project is to provide data to support studies of the nature and consequences of environmental change in the New England region over the last three centuries. This project will digitally capture specimen data and images from about 1.3 million vascular plant specimens from herbaria across New England, enhancing the data with georeferencing, habitat, and phonological information. The digitization process will integrate with existing community efforts and will develop novel high-throughput digitization technologies to increase efficiency and decrease costs. All resulting data and images will be freely available on-line.The data from this project will be of immediate use to scientists who study climate and land-use change, and will provide a better understanding of how global changes will impact the distribution of native and introduced plant species. This project will benefit research in taxonomy, ecology, morphology, biogeography, and evolutionary history by making available data on an entire regional flora in an electronic format. The methodologies developed will provide a model for other regions around the nation. In addition the project will utilize citizen scientists, school groups, and students providing training, research, and educational opportunities. . 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 (iDigBio.org).

植物标本室标本提供了对研究全球环境变化有用的历史信息来源。该项目的目标是提供数据来支持对过去三个世纪新英格兰地区环境变化的性质和后果的研究。该项目将以数字方式采集新英格兰植物标本馆约 130 万个维管植物标本的标本数据和图像，通过地理配准、栖息地和语音信息增强数据。数字化过程将与现有的社区努力相结合，并将开发新颖的高通量数字化技术，以提高效率并降低成本。所有由此产生的数据和图像都将免费在线提供。该项目的数据将立即供研究气候和土地利用变化的科学家使用，并将让人们更好地了解全球变化将如何影响本地物种的分布。并引进植物品种。该项目将以电子格式提供整个区域植物区系的数据，将有利于分类学、生态学、形态学、生物地理学和进化史的研究。开发的方法将为全国其他地区提供模型。此外，该项目还将利用公民科学家、学校团体和学生提供培训、研究和教育机会。 。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而颁发的，该奖项产生的所有数据都将通过国家资源 (iDigBio.org) 提供。