Collaborative Research: ARTS: Integrative Research and Training in Tropical Taxonomy

合作研究：ARTS：热带分类学综合研究和培训

基本信息

批准号：
1623837
负责人：
Robert Thacker
金额：
$ 7.34万
依托单位：
SUNY at Stony Brook
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：
2015-12-15 至 2019-03-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1623837&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
Collaborative Research ARTS Integrative Training

项目摘要

Taxonomy, the science of finding, describing and naming organisms, is vital to biological research and conservation of life's diversity. The on-going effort to survey, inventory, and preserve the ocean's biological diversity is threatened by a shortage of taxonomic expertise. Although focused on Caribbean biodiversity, the overarching goal of this project is to promote conservation of marine biodiversity around the world. This project will make it easier to correctly identify and document marine biodiversity, to detect invasive species, and to protect rare and endangered species by training new taxonomists, by developing Internet-based resources to support taxonomic research, and by making taxonomic methods easily accessible to non-specialists. This project will create new taxonomic descriptions and revisions of currently undescribed species from the Caribbean, which will be immediately useful to any researcher, manager, or conservation practitioner working in the region, and will contribute to the species inventory of the Caribbean. Open-access videos and how-to guides will allow specialists to convey enthusiasm for these organisms to the public, to managers, and to policy makers, and provide a way for students and the general public to learn more about taxonomy. This project has three parts with complementary aims. Part A will document the biodiversity of 6 groups of marine organisms with high, but poorly known, diversity in the Southern Caribbean (sponges, hydroids, sea anemones, sea squirts, ribbon worms, and seaweeds). This work will emphasize the integration of traditional morphological and molecular characters with non-traditional characters such as larval morphology, live coloration, and characters derived from confocal and electron microscopy. Established experts will work closely with experts-in-training, with a focus on species from the Caribbean coast of Panama that are known to be in particular need of taxonomic revision. Part B will provide training workshops for graduate students and junior researchers interested in developing taxonomic expertise in one of 6 focal groups; enabling them to (1) identify species in the field, (2) efficiently collect and preserve material for subsequent taxonomic work, (3) use existing keys or monographs to identify material to species, and (4) develop personal connections with a global network of other students and specialists. Part C will make the basic skills and vocabulary involved in the taxonomy of all 6 groups globally accessible to both expert and non-specialist workers in biodiversity and conservation. This part will develop a standard package of internet-based tools for each group, including a set of how-to videos and illustrated definitions of technical terms, with translations into several languages. This toolkit will be designed to facilitate rapid biodiversity documentation and to increase the precision of preliminary field identifications.

分类法，发现，描述和命名生物的科学对于生命多样性的生物学研究和保护至关重要。持续的调查，清单和保留海洋生物多样性的努力受到分类专业知识不足的威胁。尽管专注于加勒比生物多样性，但该项目的总体目标是促进全球海洋生物多样性的保护。该项目将使正确识别和记录海洋生物多样性，检测入侵物种，并通过培训新分类学家来保护稀有和濒危物种，从而更容易地通过开发基于互联网的资源来支持分类学研究，并使分类方法易于访问，以保护稀有和濒危物种。非专家。该项目将对加勒比海地区目前未描述的物种进行新的分类描述和修订，这将对该地区工作的任何研究人员，经理或保护从业人员立即有用，并将为加勒比海物种库存做出贡献。开放式视频和操作指南将允许专家向公众，经理和政策制定者传达对这些生物的热情，并为学生和公众提供更多有关分类法的信息。该项目的三个部分具有互补的目标。 A部分将记录6组海洋生物的生物多样性，这些海洋生物具有较高但鲜为人知的多样性（海绵，水型，海葵，海葵，海洋喷气，丝带蠕虫和海藻）的生物多样性。这项工作将强调将传统形态和分子特征与非传统特征（例如幼虫形态，实时色彩以及来自共聚焦和电子显微镜衍生的特征）的整合。成熟的专家将与培训专家紧密合作，重点是来自巴拿马加勒比海沿岸的物种，这些物种尤其需要分类学修订。 B部分将为有兴趣在6个焦点组之一中开发分类专业知识的研究生和初级研究人员提供培训讲习班；使其能够（1）识别现场中的物种，（2）有效收集和保存材料以进行后续分类工作，（3）使用现有的钥匙或专着来识别物种的材料，（4）与全球网络建立个人联系其他学生和专家。 C部分将使在生物多样性和保护方面的专家和非专家工人都可以访问全球所有6个小组的分类学的基本技能和词汇。该部分将为每个组开发一个标准的基于Internet的工具，包括一组操作视频和插图技术术语的定义，并将其翻译成几种语言。该工具包将旨在促进快速的生物多样性文档，并提高初步现场标识的精度。