亚利桑那大学的生物多样性信息小组最近得到美国BIO5 Institute项目的支持。开发了基于物种、标本数据的搜索引擎和作图工具。
The Biodiversity Informatics Initiative is aimed at developing informatics infrastructure centered on the UA’s outstanding natural history collections, which house hundreds of thousands of biological specimens from around the southwest US and Mexico. By establishing a common underlying database architecture for all collections, setting up linkages to external resources, and providing for public access to all its products, the initiative aims to foster research in broad areas of biological sciences, ranging from systematics, ecology and global change biology, to comparative genomics and molecular biology.
Currently, our search engine and mapping tools provide access to specimens representing nearly 18,000 species of plants and vertebrates.
We are also developing tools to map Arizona’s biodiversity hotspots. For a preliminary view of plant species richness in the state, see ‘Summarized diversity maps’ on the Diversity Mapper page.
The Initiative is funded by the UA’s Bio5 Institute, College of Science, and College of Agriculture and Life Science.