Digitization PEN: Enhancing the SoRo TCN with collections of taxonomic, geographic, and historic significance from the Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden Herbarium

数字化 PEN：通过兰乔圣安娜植物园植物标本馆的分类学、地理和历史意义的收藏来增强 SoRo TCN

• 批准号: 1901889
• 负责人: Mare Nazaire
• 金额: $ 14.98万
• 依托单位: Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-09-15 至 2023-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1901889&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Digitization; PEN; Enhancing; SoRo; TCN

The Southern Rocky Mountain Region (SoRo) supports a rich and fragile flora of diverse habitats and narrow ecological niches derived from unique geographic origins and evolutionary histories. The Herbarium at Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden (RSABG) has a unique, data-rich, and curated but currently inaccessible collection of 60,700 vascular plant specimens from the SoRo region, the digitization of which will tailor seamlessly with the ongoing Digitization Thematic Collections Network (TCN) "Using Herbarium Data to Document Plant Niches in the High Peaks and High Plains of the Southern Rockies - Past, Present, and Future." Timely digitization of RSABG's significant collections will be instrumental to enhancing the TCN and enable researchers to examine contemporary patterns of distribution, identify signatures of diversification, predict future environmental change, and help to mitigate negative impacts of climate change and habitat alteration. Digitization includes 30,960 specimens especially noteworthy for their relevance to science, collector, and taxonomy. Integral to the project are the activities that involve graduate students and undergraduate interns. Students will be trained in all aspects of collections management and digitization. Undergraduate interns will participate in four workshops that will serve to connect students to collections, biodiversity, and conservation of the SoRo region. Additionally, through coordinated efforts with California Polytechnic University, Pomona (CPP; a Hispanic Serving Institution), undergraduate students in CPP's Form & Function in Plants class will barcode 50% of the project specimens as partial fulfillment of their course objectives. An exhibit at RSABG will highlight the activities and student participation in the project.The flora of the Southern Rocky Mountain region (SoRo) is composed of plants with unique evolutionary histories driven by orogenic factors and long- and short-term climatic shifts associated with continental glaciations. Such abiotic factors have greatly influenced elevational changes in community structure, large-scale geographic range shifts, patterns of rapid diversification, and ecological niche evolution. These histories and dynamic abiotic phenomena have yielded varied ecosystems and geological substrates that support numerous endemics and/or narrowly adapted species. The uniqueness of the SoRo region provides an excellent model area in which to examine patterns of diversification, niche evolution, and endemism. As part of the SoRo Thematic Collections Network (TCN), the Herbarium at Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden (RSABG) aims to digitize and mobilize data from 60,700 herbarium specimens relevant to the SoRo region and contribute to the larger goals of the project and strengthen the TCN. Specimens targeted for this project include 30,960 especially noteworthy specimens based on their relevance to science, collector, and taxonomy, and are emblematic of the unique strengths of the RSABG Herbarium. A large cadre of students at different levels in their academic career will participate in all aspects of the project, including databasing, imaging, and georeferencing. All data resulting from this project will be shared with iDigBio (idigbio.org) and the Global Biodiversity Information Facility through SoRo's Symbiota portal as well as RSABG's Herbarium web portal. Additional information about RSABG, its outreach activities, and the results of this project is available online (www.rsabg.org).This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

南部落基山脉（Soro）（Soro）支持富含地理和进化历史的各种栖息地和狭窄的生态壁ni的丰富而脆弱的植物。 兰乔圣安娜植物园（RSABG）的标本室具有独特的，数据丰富且经过精心策划但目前无法访问的索罗地区60,700个血管植物标本的收集，该数字化将无缝地量身定制，并在不断进行的数字化主题网络（TCN）范围内无缝地量身定制，以记录较高的工厂山脉（TCN），以“ TCN NORNESES”（TCN）nichium nichim nichine nichine nichine nichice nichich nichich nichice nichice of。 - 过去，现在和未来。” RSABG重大收藏的及时数字化将有助于增强TCN，并使研究人员能够检查当代的分布模式，确定多元化的签名，预测未来的环境变化，并有助于减轻气候变化和栖息地改变的负面影响。 数字化包括30,960个标本，特别值得注意，因为它们与科学，收藏家和分类法的相关性。 该项目不可或缺的是涉及研究生和本科实习生的活动。 学生将接受收集管理和数字化的各个方面的培训。 本科实习生将参加四个研讨会，这些研讨会将有助于将学生与索罗地区的收藏，生物多样性和保护联系起来。 此外，通过与加利福尼亚理工大学Pomona（CPP；西班牙裔服务机构）的协调努力，以CPP形式和植物班级功能的本科生将在其课程目标中进行预定的50％的项目标本。 RSABG的展览将突出该项目的活动和学生参与。南部落基山地区（Soro）的植物群是由由造型因素和与大陆冰川相关的长期和短期气候变化驱动的独特进化历史的植物组成的。 这种非生物因素极大地影响了社区结构的高度变化，大规模的地理范围变化，快速多元化的模式以及生态利基的进化。 这些历史和动态的非生物现象产生了多样化的生态系统和地质底物，这些生态系统和地质底物支持众多的典范和/或狭义的物种。 索罗地区的独特性提供了一个出色的模型领域，可以在其中检查多样化，利基进化和特有的模式。 作为Soro主题收藏网络（TCN）的一部分，Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden（RSABG）的植物标本室旨在将60,700个与Soro地区相关的60,700个标本标本的数据数字化和动员数据，并为该项目的更大目标贡献并增强TCN。 该项目的标本包括30,960个，特别是基于科学，收藏家和分类法的相关性的值得注意的标本，并象征着RSABG植物标本室的独特优势。 在学术生涯中，大量的学生在不同级别的学生将参与该项目的各个方面，包括数据表，成像和地球发作。 该项目产生的所有数据将与IDIGBIO（IDIGBIO.org）和通过Soro的Symbiota门户以及RSABG的Herbarium Web Portal共享。 有关RSABG，其外展活动以及该项目的结果的其他信息可在线获得（www.rsabg.org）。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并认为使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响审查标准，被认为是值得通过评估的支持。