Description
Brock is a publicly funded university located in the Niagara Region of Ontario, Canada. Its location along the Niagara Escarpment grants it a special position within a designated UNESCO Biosphere Reserve. The Niagara region is special as it represents one of the last regions in Canada where the Carolinian ecosystem can be found and where many specie at risk are present. Unfortunately, for various reasons, the region has been the target of few intensive biodiversity studies with specimen collections. The university, along with several local organizations, envisions itself as a leader in improving our understanding of plant diversity in the region and therefore aims at becoming the official specimen depository for the region. The establishment and registration of our herbarium, which includes collections dating back to the 1930’s, is an important step to engaging the international community. This will allow improving the knowledge of the area and exchange with other institutions that may have studied in the region. It is also a collaborative effort with other local organizations that believe this initiative timely considering new conservation projects such as those of the Niagara Land Trust.
Data Records
The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 100 records.
This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.
Versions
The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.
How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Brock University Herbarium (MT) from Brock University. http://doi.org/10.5886/6tff2h49 (accessed on [date]).
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is Brock University. To the extent possible under law, the publisher has waived all rights to these data and has dedicated them to the Public Domain (CC0 1.0). Users may copy, modify, distribute and use the work, including for commercial purposes, without restriction.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 1672a8ae-1e9c-4620-8314-a6da5202eb4e. Brock University publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Canada Biodiversity Information Facility.
Keywords
Occurrence; Specimen; BU; Brock University Herbarium; Canadensys; Canada; collection; herbarium; specimens
External data
The resource data is also available in other formats
| Canadensys Explorer | http://data.canadensys.net/explorer/en/resources/bu-specimens UTF-8 HTML |
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| GBIF data portal | http://www.gbif.org/dataset/1672a8ae-1e9c-4620-8314-a6da5202eb4e UTF-8 HTML |
Contacts
- Metadata Provider ●
- Originator ●
- Processor ●
- User
- Point Of Contact ●
- Principal Investigator
Geographic Coverage
Collection presently includes vouchers from Canada, Iceland, as well as the Northeastern and the Midwestern United States.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [36.71, -144.12], North East [83.88, -13.03] |
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Temporal Coverage
| Start Date | 1936-01-01 |
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Project Data
No Description available
| Title | Revitalization and Digitization of the Brock University Herbarium |
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The personnel involved in the project:
- Principal Investigator
Collection Data
| Collection Name | Brock University Herbarium |
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| Collection Identifier | http://www.gbif.org/publisher/b35e2d16-5a39-486f-82ee-61662e45c665 |
| Parent Collection Identifier | Not applicable |
| Specimen preservation methods | Mounted |
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Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | http://doi.org/10.5886/6tff2h49 |
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| 1672a8ae-1e9c-4620-8314-a6da5202eb4e | |
| http://data.canadensys.net/ipt/resource?r=bu-specimens |