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​​球上前世的存在。通过研究它们在世界范围内的属性和分布，我们可以了解地球不断变化的本质以及生物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，并帮助制定促进健康生态系统的政策，这是人类生存的关键因素。由于这些原因，至关重要的是，对化石和其他自然史收藏集进行了安全存储并设法确保为科学家，教育工作者，学生和公众提供公开访问这些资源的机会。这里提出的工作包括包装和将大量南美化石搬到化石灵长类动物（DFP）的杜克大学狐猴中心部，以确保其长期保存。该系列包括重要的灵长类化石，这些化石将库存，分类和数字存档以及所有地区和收集数据。该项目将通过“虚拟博物馆”框架向研究人员和公众提供全部开放访问。这项工作的许多方面都将涉及北卡罗来纳州高中生以及杜克大学的本科生和研究生的参与。该项目将确保DFP中所在的化石灵长类动物和相关的动物元素，该项目是从埃及（38至29 Ma）的嗜世（Egypte）和早期的（38至29 Ma）中的脊椎动物中的集合（198至29 Ma）中的（19岁）。从马达加斯加（500至15,000 bp）的更新世 - 半新世。该项目还将从哥伦比亚的拉文塔（La Venta）转移一个重要且互补的中新世集合到DFP。哥伦比亚的收藏面临流离失所和破坏的危险。 DFP的化石灵长类动物收集对于测试有关现代群体如何以及何时出现在时空中的假设至关重要。 DFP收集增强了与气候和栖息地变化有关的物种多样性和灭绝的研究。过去的事件可以为当前的保护工作提供信息，因为活着的非人类灵长类动物变得更加严重濒危。开放访问3D渲染和DFP标本模型将催化以假设为驱动的研究，重点是灵长类动物的演变。 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.有关其他信息，请参见http://lemur.duke.edu/discover/division-of-fossil-primates/和http://morphosource.org/。