Digitization TCN: Collaborative: The Microfungi Collections Consortium: A Networked Approach to Digitizing Small Fungi with Large Impacts on the Function and Health of Ecosystems

数字化 TCN：协作：微型真菌收藏联盟：对对生态系统功能和健康产生重大影响的小型真菌进行数字化的网络方法

• 批准号: 1502735
• 负责人: Andrew Miller
• 金额: $ 99.66万
• 依托单位: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• 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: 2015-07-01 至 2021-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1502735&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Digitization; TCN; Collaborative; Microfungi; Collections

Microscopic fungi (microfungi) represent a diverse assemblage that is distributed worldwide and includes bread molds, plant pathogens, powdery mildews, rusts, slime molds, and water molds. A large percentage of these organisms are harmless or even beneficial, but some cause disease and death in animals, plants, and other fungi resulting in major economic loss and serious negative implications for human and ecosystem health. Despite their importance, little is known about their distribution, diversity, ecology, or host associations. This project is a collaborative effort involving 38 institutions in 31 states and aims to consolidate data from specimens housed in biodiversity collections for 2.3 million microfungi specimens and make these data available through online resources. The consolidation and increased accessibility of these data is critical to inform and promote new and innovative research, education and community engagement around this little-known but important group of organisms.Specimen data generated by this project will be used to assess natural and human-induced environmental changes on microfungi distributions, and evaluate the impact of these changes on the function and health of ecosystems. This project fills a critical gap in the national digitization effort by contributing images, digitizing specimen label data, and linking associated ancillary data for over 1.2 million North American specimens of microfungi. Additionally, nomenclature and taxonomic information will be updated to reflect the newest practices as dictated by the International Codes for Nomenclature. These data will provide a foundation for making informed decisions by agribusinesses, educators, forest managers, government agencies, horticulturalists, policy makers, researchers, and the general public. The broader education goals of this project will be facilitated through the development and implementation of a teaching module for high school biology on the economic importance of microfungi. 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).

微观真菌（Microfungi）代表了一种多样化的组合，该组合在全球范围内分布，包括面包模具，植物病原体，白粉病，生锈，粘液模具和水霉。这些生物中很大一部分是无害的，甚至是有益的，但有些生物会导致动物，植物和其他真菌导致疾病和死亡，从而对人类和生态系统健康产生重大的经济损失和严重的负面影响。尽管他们的分布，多样性，生态或寄主协会知之甚少，但知之甚少。该项目是一项合作的努力，涉及31个州的38个机构，旨在巩固来自生物多样性收集中230万个微杆菌标本的标本中的数据，并通过在线资源提供这些数据。这些数据的整合和增加的可访问性对于围绕这个鲜为人知但重要的生物体群体提供了新的和创新的研究，教育和社区参与至关重要。该项目产生的确定数据将用于评估自然和人类诱发的微膜性分布的环境变化，并评估这些变化对生态系统功能和健康的影响。该项目通过贡献图像，数字化标本数据以及将超过120万个Microfungi北美标本的相关辅助数据链接来弥补国家数字化工作的关键差距。此外，将更新术语和分类信息，以反映国际命名法规定的最新实践。这些数据将为农业综合企业，教育工作者，森林经理，政府机构，园艺家，政策制定者，研究人员和公众做出明智的决定提供基础。该项目的更广泛的教育目标将通过开发和实施高中生物学的教学模块，以实现Microfengi的经济重要性。该奖项是通过推进生物收集计划的数字化数字化生物收集资源的一部分，该奖项产生的所有数据将通过国家资源（idigbio.org）获得。