CSBR: Ownership Transfer: Miocene Colombian Vertebrates and Conservation of the Duke Lemur Center Fossil Collections

CSBR：所有权转让：中新世哥伦比亚脊椎动物和杜克狐猴中心化石收藏的保护

• 批准号: 1458192
• 负责人: Anne Yoder
• 金额: $ 48.69万
• 依托单位: Duke University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-04-01 至 2018-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1458192&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CSBR; Ownership; Transfer; Miocene; Colombian

Fossils document the existence of previous life forms on Earth. By studying their attributes and distribution across the world and through time, we gain understanding of the ever-evolving nature of the Earth and the responses of organisms to climate change and habitat disturbance. Understanding the fossil record can guide present and future conservation efforts and help develop policies that promote healthy ecosystems, a crucial factor for human survival. For these reasons it is critical that fossils and other natural history collections be safely stored and managed to assure open access to these resources for scientists, educators, students, and the general public. The work proposed here consists of packing and moving a large collection of South American fossils to the Duke Lemur Center Division of Fossil Primates (DFP) to ensure its long-term preservation. This collection includes important primate fossils that will be inventoried, cataloged, and digitally archived, along with all locality and collection data. The project will provide full and open access of the entire collection to researchers and the public through a "virtual museum" framework. Many aspects of this work will involve the participation of local North Carolina high school students as well as Duke University undergraduate and graduate students.This project will secure the fossil primates and associated faunal elements housed in the DFP, a collection of vertebrates from the Late Eocene-Early Oligocene of Egypt (38 to 29 Ma), the early Miocene of Egypt (19.5 Ma), and the latest Pleistocene-Holocene from Madagascar (500 to 15,000 BP). The project will also transfer an important and complementary Middle Miocene collection from La Venta, Colombia to the DFP. The Colombian collection is under imminent risk of displacement and destruction. The fossil primate collections at DFP are critical for testing hypotheses concerning how and when modern groups appeared in time and space. DFP collections enhance study of species diversity and extinction in relation to climate and habitat change. Past events can inform present conservation efforts as living non-human primates become more critically endangered. Open access to 3D renderings and models of DFP specimens will catalyze hypothesis-driven research focused on primate evolution. All updated specimen and georeferenced locality information will be made available for online searches as part of an updated and redesigned DFP website (http://www.fossils.duke.edu/) and will be shared with iDigBio (https://www.idigbio.org/), ensuring accessibility to researchers and educators. For additional information see http://lemur.duke.edu/discover/division-of-fossil-primates/ and http://morphosource.org/.

化石记录了地​​球上以前生命形式的存在。通过研究它们在世界各地和随时间的推移的属性和分布，我们了解地球不断演变的性质以及生物体对气候变化和栖息地干扰的反应。了解化石记录可以指导当前和未来的保护工作，并有助于制定促进健康生态系统的政策，健康生态系统是人类生存的关键因素。由于这些原因，化石和其他自然历史收藏品的安全储存和管理至关重要，以确保科学家、教育工作者、学生和公众能够开放地获取这些资源。这里提出的工作包括将大量南美化石打包并转移到杜克狐猴中心化石灵长类动物部门（DFP），以确保其长期保存。该藏品包括重要的灵长类动物化石，以及所有地点和收藏数据，这些化石将被清点、编目和数字化存档。该项目将通过“虚拟博物馆”框架向研究人员和公众提供对整个藏品的全面开放的访问。这项工作的许多方面将涉及北卡罗来纳州当地高中生以及杜克大学本科生和研究生的参与。该项目将保护 DFP 中的灵长类化石和相关动物群，DFP 是始新世晚期的脊椎动物集合-埃及早渐新世（38至29 Ma），埃及早中新世（19.5 Ma），以及马达加斯加最新世-全新世（500 至 15,000 BP）。该项目还将把重要且互补的中中新世藏品从哥伦比亚拉文塔转移到 DFP。哥伦比亚的藏品面临着流离失所和毁坏的迫在眉睫的风险。 DFP 的灵长类化石收藏对于检验有关现代群体在时间和空间上如何以及何时出现的假设至关重要。 DFP 馆藏加强了对与气候和栖息地变化相关的物种多样性和灭绝的研究。随着现存的非人类灵长类动物变得更加濒临灭绝，过去的事件可以为当前的保护工作提供信息。开放获取 3D 渲染图和 DFP 标本模型将促进以灵长类进化为重点的假设驱动研究。所有更新的标本和地理参考位置信息将作为更新和重新设计的 DFP 网站 (http://www.fossils.duke.edu/) 的一部分提供用于在线搜索，并将与 iDigBio (https://www.fossils.duke.edu/) 共享。 idigbio.org/），确保研究人员和教育工作者的可访问性。有关更多信息，请参阅 http://lemur.duke.edu/discover/division-of-fossil-primates/ 和 http://morphosource.org/。