Digitiation PEN: Augmenting the Endless Forms TCN: digitization of imperiled plants with unique morphological adaptations

数字化 PEN：增强无尽形式 TCN：具有独特形态适应性的濒危植物的数字化

• 批准号: 2001358
• 负责人: Mare Nazaire
• 金额: $ 15万
• 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: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-09-15 至 2023-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2001358&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Digitiation; PEN; Augmenting; Endless; Forms

Only 36 areas on earth contain almost half of the world’s plant diversity. Biodiversity hotspots occupy only 2.3% of the earth’s land surface but harbor a high proportion of endemic species and house most undescribed plant diversity. An important biotic component of biodiversity hotspots include plants with unusual morphologies, such as succulence, carnivory, and epiphytism. These plants are highly adapted to live in extreme environments but face serious threats of extinction due to changing climate and land use regimes. This project partners the Herbarium at Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden (RSA) with the Endless Forms Project, a Thematic Collections Network (TCN) involving 17 institutions aimed at digitizing nearly 2 million herbarium specimens from 15 plant families with unusual adaptations. Collections targeted for this project are emblematic of the unique strengths of RSA and will add immeasurably to the Endless Forms TCN. This partnership fills an important gap by adding 70,100 herbarium specimens representing all families, some of which are especially diverse (cacti, agave, spurge) in California, a world biodiversity hotspot. Digitization will promote scientific investigation and public understanding of these potentially imperiled plants, and through public databases, will provide access to a rich source of specimen data. Graduate and undergraduate students will make up 90% of the workforce and participate in all aspects of the project. This project will enhance RSA’s existing internship program through increased participation of students from Hispanic Serving Institutions in the Greater Los Angeles metropolitan area. Through coordinated efforts with California Polytechnic University, Pomona (a Hispanic Serving Institution), undergraduate students will barcode specimens as partial fulfillment of course objectives. An exhibit will highlight plants of the Endless Forms project, including digitization activities and student participation.Funding of the Endless Forms TCN was based on the unique value of digitizing plants that exhibit extreme morphologies, such as succulence, carnivory, and epiphytism, that can be used increase our understanding of how these plants have adapted to extreme environments and how changing climate regimes may impact future distributions. This project will add immeasurably to the Endless Forms TCN’s endeavor with the digitization of 70,100 unique specimens held at the RSA Herbarium. Important and TCN-relevant collections for the 15 families with unusual morphologies included for digitization are well represented in the RSA Herbarium, both in geographic breadth and taxonomic diversity, and owe significantly to the contributions of several noteworthy researchers affiliated with RSA who specialize on these plants. Digitization of these specimens will result in high-resolution images and georeferenced collection locations that will enable the potential discovery of species new to science, new distribution and phenology data, and increased access to a rich source of specimen data currently unavailable to the research community, students, and the public. Data capture, efficient workflow development, and dissemination of data will adhere to established guidelines as specified by the Endless Forms TCN. A large cadre of students at different levels in their academic career will participate in all aspects of the project, including data entry, imaging, and georeferencing. All data resulting from this project will be made available through the national resource (iDigBio.org). Additional information about RSA, its outreach activities, and the results of this project is available at calbg.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.

地球上只有36个区域包含世界上几乎一半的植物多样性。生物多样性热点仅占地地球表面的2.3％，但具有很大比例的内在物种，并容纳了最未描述的植物多样性。生物多样性热点的重要生物成分包括具有异常形态的植物，例如多肉，肉食和附生植物。这些植物非常适合生活在极端环境中，但由于气候变化和土地利用制度，面临严重的扩展威胁。该项目合作于兰乔圣安娜植物园（RSA）的植物植物与无尽的表单项目，一个主题收藏网络（TCN），涉及17个机构，旨在将近200万个具有不寻常适应的植物家庭数字化。针对该项目的收藏品象征着RSA的独特优势，并将可明显地增加无尽的形式TCN。该合作伙伴关系填补了一个重要的空白，即增加了代表所有家庭的70,100个标本室标本，其中一些是在加利福尼亚州的加利福尼亚州，这是世界生物多样性热点的加利福尼亚州。数字化将促进科学研究和公众对这些潜在危害植物的理解，并通过公共数据库提供访问丰富的标本数据来源。研究生和本科生将占劳动力的90％，并参与该项目的各个方面。该项目将通过增加大洛杉矶大都会地区西班牙裔服务机构的学生的参与来增强RSA的现有实习计划。通过与加利福尼亚理工大学Pomona（西班牙裔服务机构）的协调努力，本科生将标本作为课程对象的部分实现。 An Exhibit will highlight plants of the Endless Forms project, including digitization activities and student participation.Funding of the Endless Forms TCN was based on the unique value of digitizing plants that exhibit extreme morphologies, such as succulence, carnivory, and epiphytism, that can be used increased our understanding of how these plants have adapted to extreme environments and how changing climate regimes may impact future distributions.该项目将通过在RSA植物标本室中拥有的70,100种独特物种数字化，使TCN的无尽形式的努力不可估量地增加。对于数字化的15个家庭的重要和与TCN相关的收藏量在RSA植物标本室中很好地代表了地理广度和分类学多样性，并且显着归功于与这些工厂专门研究这些工厂的几位值得注意的研究人员的贡献。这些物种的数字化将导致高分辨率的图像和地理参考的收集位置，这将使科学，新的分布和物候数据的新物种的潜在发现，并增加了对研究社区，学生和公众目前无法使用的丰富标本数据来源的访问。数据捕获，有效的工作流程开发和数据传播将遵守无尽表格TCN指定的已建立准则。在学术生涯中，大量的学生在不同级别的学生将参与项目的各个方面，包括数据输入，成像和地理发行。该项目产生的所有数据将通过国家资源（idigbio.org）提供。有关RSA，其外展活动以及该项目的结果的其他信息，请访问calbg.org.org。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并且使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响审查标准，被认为值得通过评估来获得支持。