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Biodiversity Informatics & Herbarium Digitization

Yost, Jenn [1], Pearson, Katie [1], Alexander, Jason [2], Love, Natalie [3], Mazer, Susan [4], Mishler, Brent [5].

Capturing flowering time data from herbarium specimens: The California Phenology TCN.

The timing of flowering is important to science, society, and biodiversity, and herbarium specimens can provide rich data on how flowering times vary across time and space and with changes in climate. The California Phenology Thematic Collections Network (CAP TCN) is an ADBC-NSF-funded project that aims to image nearly one million herbarium specimens and capture flowering (i.e., phenological) data from these images. We are halfway done with our project and have already generated 1.3 million phenological scorings in a standardized format.  We will describe how researchers can access these data to study flowering time shifts in the California flora and how other data collection efforts can benefit from our work. We will describe the current and future activities of the CAP TCN including specimen imaging, development of a new data portal and phenological data standards, research, and education and outreach opportunities associated with the project. This project is generating data that will increase our understanding of flowering time shifts' a critical need for agriculturalists, conservation biologists, plant taxonomists, land managers, and wildlife biologists.

Related Links:
CAP TCN project website

1 - Cal Poly State University, Biology, 1 Grand Ave, San Luis Obispo, CA, 93407, USA
2 - University of California, Berkeley, Integrative Biology, 1001 Valley Life Sciences Building, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
3 - University of California, Santa Barbara, Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology , 4119 Life Sciences Building, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106
4 - University of California, Santa Barbara, Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology , 4119 Life Sciences Building, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, USA
5 - University of California, Berkeley, University and Jepson Herbaria andDepartment of Integrative Biology, 1001 Valley Life Sciences Bldg, #2465, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA

Keywords:
phenology
flowering
Herbaria
specimens.

Presentation Type: Oral Paper
Session: BIHD2, Biodiversity Informatics & Herbarium Digitization II
Location: Virtual/Virtual
Date: Thursday, July 30th, 2020
Time: 1:30 PM
Number: BIHD2005
Abstract ID:855
Candidate for Awards:None