Lichens, Bryophytes and Climate Change
Outline
Goals and Scope
National Portals
Research Question
Bryophytes and Lichens
Digitization Workflow
LBCC: Workflow Overview
Optical Character Recognition
Natural Language Processing
Making use of duplicates
Label Review
Geo-referencing
Processed Records => Central DB
Collaboration
Project Information
Outreach
Outreach and Crowd Sourcing
Outreach and Crowd Sourcing
Crowd Sourcing
Challenges

Bryophytes and Lichens
Different evolutionarily but similar in size and habitats occupied (epiphytes, soil mats, and rocks)
Both dominate much of the arctic and northern boreal regions (lichens in upland areas and bryophytes in wet habitats.
Both also occur commonly in many other ecosystems (deserts to tropics)
Bryophytes, particularly in peat bogs store a major part of the worlds organic carbon