Description
The University of Lethbridge Herbarium was founded shortly after 1968 by Job Kuijt, primarily as a teaching collection representative of the local flora. The herbarium houses the reference collection that forms the foundation for Kuijt's 1982 book A Flora of Waterton Lakes National Park and also numerous Packera collections by J.F. Bain. The collection currently includes over 20,000 specimens of vascular plants and remains an important research tool for botanists, students and the general public.
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 22,907 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:
University of Lethbridge Herbarium (LEA). http://dx.doi.org/10.5886/wrt547hq (accessed on [date]).
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is University of Lethbridge. 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: 5678b0b3-450b-4513-82e1-2b32c3c50b54. University of Lethbridge publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Canada Biodiversity Information Facility.
Keywords
LEA; University of Lethbridge herbarium; University of Lethbridge; Canadensys; Consortium of Pacific Northwest Herbaria; Canada; Alberta; Waterton Lakes National Park; herbarium; specimens; collection; Packera; Specimen
External data
The resource data is also available in other formats
| U. of L. Herbarium and Plant Resources | http://scholar.ulethbridge.ca/bain/pages/home UTF-8 HTML |
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| Canadensys Explorer | https://data.canadensys.net/explorer/occurrences/search?q=data_resource_uid%3Adr54#tab_mapView UTF-8 HTML |
| GBIF data portal | http://www.gbif.org/dataset/5678b0b3-450b-4513-82e1-2b32c3c50b54 UTF-8 HTML |
Contacts
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- Originator ●
- Point Of Contact ●
- Principal Investigator
- Programmer ●
- Custodian Steward
- Curator
Geographic Coverage
most specimens are part of the local southern Alberta flora, especially the flora of Waterton Lakes National Park. Limited coverage of western North America
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [33.26, -136.56], North East [62.85, -104.26] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
vascular plants
Temporal Coverage
| Formation Period | 1968-current |
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Sampling Methods
All sheets were photographed and label data manually digitized from sheet photos.
| Study Extent | digitization of all specimens from the University of Lethbridge herbarium (LEA). |
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Method step description:
- not applicable
Collection Data
| Collection Name | University of Lethbridge herbarium |
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| Collection Identifier | LEA |
| Parent Collection Identifier | not applicable |
| Specimen preservation methods | Dried and pressed |
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| Curatorial Units | Between 20,000 and 25,000 sheets |
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Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | 5678b0b3-450b-4513-82e1-2b32c3c50b54 |
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| https://data.canadensys.net/ipt/resource?r=lea-specimens |