CSBR: Natural History: Critical Access and Storage for the Mycological Collections at the University of California, Berkeley

CSBR：自然历史：加州大学伯克利分校真菌学收藏品的关键获取和存储

• 批准号: 1458314
• 负责人: Brent Mishler
• 金额: $ 24.37万
• 依托单位: University of California-Berkeley
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-05-01 至 2017-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1458314&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CSBR; Natural; History; Critical; Access

The fungi are critical components of all terrestrial ecosystems, where they play important roles as mutualists, parasites, and commensals in both plants and animals. Most of the world's important plant pathogens, such as chestnut blight, Dutch elm disease, oak wilt, and white pine blister rust are fungi. In addition, fungi are the primary decomposers responsible for recycling organic matter such as fallen leaves and downed trees. In this latter role they directly impact the global carbon cycle, even on a geological time scale. Herbaria are important repositories documenting the identity and characteristics of specimens collected in association with scientific studies. The University Herbarium of the University of California, Berkeley (UC) has been expanding its mycological collections to meet the demands for better understanding of fungi in California and across North America. This award will provide safe storage for fungal collections that are now housed inadequately in a condemned building. It will also support local citizen science groups participating in "mycoblitzes" who need scientific expertise for collecting and identifying material. Public workshops on various aspects of fungal biology will also be held.The UC herbarium has been expanding its mycological collections to support a diversity of research on fungi: Their taxonomy, geographic distribution, ecology, morphological traits, and DNA. A push is beginning to survey the continent of North America, and the herbarium will play a critical role in the North American Mycoflora project as it has many types and historical collections that are necessary to anchor species names and document historical ranges. The current fungal collection housed at UC has roughly 215,000 specimens, and contains over 2000 fungal type collections, and many other collections of historical value. There is insufficient space for all the specimens, particularly the important, threatened collections currently housed in a remote storage site in a condemned building. Expansion room to house these collections exists in the main herbarium space in a modern, recently renovated academic building on campus, but compactors, carriages, and cases are lacking to complete the task. Compactor carriages will be installed on existing rails; 108 new cases plus 86 existing cases will be placed on the carriages, completing a move of the fungal collections into one coherent, safe arrangement.

真菌是所有陆地生态系统的关键组成部分，它们在植物和动物中都起着重要的作用，作为共同主义者，寄生虫和共生。 世界上大多数重要的植物病原体，例如栗子疫病，荷兰榆树疾病，橡木枯萎病和白松泡沫锈病。 此外，真菌是负责回收有机物的主要分解剂，例如落叶和树木倒下的树木。 在后一种角色中，即使在地质时间尺度上，它们也直接影响全球碳循环。 草药是重要的存储库，记录了与科学研究相关的标本的身份和特征。 加州大学伯克利分校（UC）的大学植物标本室一直在扩大其真菌学系列，以满足对加利福尼亚和整个北美真菌更好地理解真菌的要求。 该奖项将为现已被谴责的建筑物不足的真菌收藏提供安全的存储空间。 它还将支持参加需要科学专业知识来收集和识别材料的“ mycoblitzes”的当地公民科学团体。 关于真菌生物学各个方面的公共研讨会也将举行。加州大学植物标本室（UC）一直在扩大其真菌学收集，以支持有关真菌的多样性研究：它们的分类学，地理分布，生态学，形态学特征和DNA。 一项努力开始调查北美大陆，植物标本室将在北美菌群项目中发挥关键作用，因为它具有许多类型和历史收藏品，这些类型和历史收藏是锚定物种名称并记录历史范围的必要意义。 当前位于UC的真菌收藏量大约有215,000个标本，并包含2000多种真菌类型的收藏品，以及许多其他历史价值藏品。 所有标本的空间不足，尤其是当前在被谴责的建筑物的远程存储地点中存放的重要，威胁性的收藏。 在校园里，在现代化的，最近经过翻新的学术建筑中，建立这些收藏的扩展室存在于主要的植物标本室空间中，但缺乏紧凑型，马车和案件来完成这项任务。 压实马车将安装在现有导轨上； 108个新案件加上86个现有案件将放置在车厢上，将真菌收集的移动转变为一个连贯的安全安排。