University of British Columbia Herbarium (UBC) - Vascular Plant Collection
This dataset includes all digitized vascular plants in the UBC collection, encompassing approximately 68% of the collection. The UBC Herbarium has one of the world's largest collections of British Columbia vascular plants and is worldwide in scope. At present, the collection includes more than 235,000 accessioned specimens.
Summary
| Keywords | UBC; University of British Columbia Herbarium; Beaty Biodiversity Museum; Canadensys; Canada; British Columbia; collection; herbarium; specimens; vascular plants |
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| Resource Language | eng |
| Last Publication | Version 7 from Feb 20, 2013 |
| Darwin Core Archive | download (16 MB) 163,501 records |
| EML | download (14 KB) |
| RTF | download (9 KB) |
| GBIF Registration | 07fd0d79-4883-435f-bba1-58fef110cd13 |
| Organisation | University of British Columbia |
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External Links
| Resource Homepage | http://www.biodiversity.ubc.ca/museum/herbarium/ |
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| UBC Herbarium Databases | http://www.biodiversity.ubc.ca/museum/herbarium/database.html |
| Canadensys explorer | http://data.canadensys.net/explorer/d/ubc-vascular-specimens |
| GBIF data portal | http://data.gbif.org/datasets/resource/14036/ |
Resource Contact
| Name | Linda Jennings |
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| Position | Assistant Curator, Vascular Plants & Algae |
| Organisation | University of British Columbia Herbarium |
| Address | 3529-6270 University Boulevard, Vancouver, British Columbia, CA, Postal Code: V6T 1Z4 |
| Contact | linda.jennings@beatymuseum.ubc.ca Telephone: (604) 822-9740 |
| Home Page | http://www.biodiversity.ubc.ca/museum/herbarium/ |
Resource Creator
| Name | Linda Jennings |
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| Position | Assistant Curator, Vascular Plants & Algae |
| Organisation | University of British Columbia Herbarium |
| Address | 3529-6270 University Boulevard, Vancouver, British Columbia, CA, Postal Code: V6T 1Z4 |
| Contact | linda.jennings@beatymuseum.ubc.ca Telephone: (604) 822-9740 |
| Home Page | http://www.biodiversity.ubc.ca/museum/herbarium/ |
Metadata Provider
| Name | Amber Saundry |
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| Position | Database Manager |
| Organisation | University of British Columbia Herbarium |
| Address | 3529-6270 University Boulevard, Vancouver, British Columbia, CA, Postal Code: V6T 1Z4 |
| Contact | amber.saundry@botany.ubc.ca Telephone: (604) 822-3344 |
| Home Page | http://www.biodiversity.ubc.ca/museum/herbarium/ |
Associated Parties
| Role | principalInvestigator |
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| Name | Jeannette Whitton |
| Position | Director & Curator, Vascular Plants |
| Organisation | University of British Columbia Herbarium |
| Address | 3529-6270 University Boulevard, Vancouver, British Columbia, CA, Postal Code: V6T 1Z4 |
| Contact | jeannette.whitton@botany.ubc.ca |
| Home Page | http://www.botany.ubc.ca/people/jwhitton.html |
| Role | custodianSteward |
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| Name | Linda Jennings |
| Position | Assistant Curator, Vascular Plants & Algae |
| Organisation | University of British Columbia Herbarium |
| Address | 3529-6270 University Boulevard, Vancouver, British Columbia, CA, Postal Code: V6T 1Z4 |
| Contact | linda.jennings@beatymuseum.ubc.ca Telephone: (604) 822-9740 |
| Home Page | http://www.biodiversity.ubc.ca/museum/herbarium/ |
| Role | principalInvestigator |
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| Name | Sean Graham |
| Position | Curator, Monocots and Basal Angiosperms |
| Organisation | University of British Columbia Herbarium |
| Address | 3529-6270 University Boulevard, Vancouver, British Columbia, CA, Postal Code: V6T 1Z4 |
| Contact | sean.graham@ubc.ca |
| Home Page | http://www.botany.ubc.ca/people/sgraham.html |
| Role | principalInvestigator |
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| Name | Quentin Cronk |
| Position | Curator, Eudicots |
| Organisation | University of British Columbia Herbarium |
| Address | 3529-6270 University Boulevard, Vancouver, British Columbia, CA, Postal Code: V6T 1Z4 |
| Contact | quentin.cronk@ubc.ca |
| Home Page | http://cronklab.wikidot.com/ |
| Role | programmer |
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| Name | Amber Saundry |
| Position | Database Manager |
| Organisation | University of British Columbia Herbarium |
| Address | 3529-6270 University Boulevard, Vancouver, British Columbia, CA, Postal Code: V6T 1Z4 |
| Contact | amber.saundry@botany.ubc.ca Telephone: (604) 822-3344 |
| Home Page | http://www.biodiversity.ubc.ca/museum/herbarium/ |
| Role | publisher |
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| Organisation | University of British Columbia |
| Address | 2329 West Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, CA, Postal Code: V6T 1Z4 |
Geographic Coverage
| Description | The UBC Herbarium has one of the world's largest collections of British Columbia vascular plants and is worldwide in scope. Of the 235,000 vascular plant specimens, about 52% are from British Columbia. About 18% are from the rest of Canada, with the Northwest Territories and Yukon especially well represented. Specimens from the United States make up about 15% of the collection, with 8% from the five Pacific Coast states (California, Hawaii, Oregon, Washington, and Alaska) and 7% from the rest of the United States. Hawaiian plants are especially well represented. About 15% of the collection is from the rest of the world, with the largest numbers from Great Britain, Finland, China, Australia, Denmark, Japan, South Africa, Taiwan, Russia, Greenland, and Sweden. |
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| Bounding Coordinates | -90, 90 / -180, 180 (min,max Latitude / min,max Longitude) |
Taxonomic Coverage
| Description | No Description available |
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| Kingdom | Plantae (Plants) |
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Temporal Coverage
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Citations
| Citation Identifier | http://www.biodiversity.ubc.ca/museum/herbarium/database.html |
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| Resource Citation | University of British Columbia Herbarium (UBC). http://www.biodiversity.ubc.ca/museum/herbarium/database.html. (consulted on [date]) |
| Citation Identifier | http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/iapt/tax/2006/00000055/00000003/art00017 |
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| Citation | Smith, A.R., Pryer, K.M., Schuettpelz, E., Korall, P., Schneider, H., Wolf, P.G. 2006. A classification for extant ferns. Taxon 55(3): 705-731. |
| Citation Identifier | http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/abs/10.1139/B08-062 |
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| Citation | Rai, H.S., Reeves, P.A., Peakall, R., Olmstead, R.G., Graham, S.W. 2008. Inference of higher-order conifer relationships from a multi-locus plastid data set. Botany 86(7): 658-669. |
| Citation Identifier | http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1095-8339.2009.00996.x/abstract |
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| Citation | The Angiosperm Phylogeny Group. 2009. An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG III. Botanical Journal of the Linnaen Society 161(2): 105-121. |
| Citation Identifier | http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1095-8339.2009.01000.x/abstract |
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| Citation | Haston, E., Richardson, J.E., Stevens, P.F., Chase, M.W., Harris, D.J. 2009. The Linear Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (LAPG) III: a linear sequence of the families in APG III. Botanical Journal of the Linnaen Society 161(2): 128-131. |
Collection Data
| Collection Name | University of British Columbia Herbarium (UBC) - Vascular Plant Collection |
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| Collection Identifier | UBC |
| Parent Collection Identifier | UBC |
| Specimen preservation method | mounted |
Additional Metadata
| Hierarchy Level | dataset |
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| Date Published | 2012-08-30 |
| IP Rights | http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ & http://www.canadensys.net/norms |