Description
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.
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 186,773 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 British Columbia Herbarium (UBC). http://dx.doi.org/10.5886/rtt57cc9. (consulted on [date])
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is University of British Columbia. 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: 07fd0d79-4883-435f-bba1-58fef110cd13. University of British Columbia publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Canada Biodiversity Information Facility.
Keywords
UBC; University of British Columbia Herbarium; Beaty Biodiversity Museum; Canadensys; Canada; British Columbia; collection; herbarium; specimens; vascular plants; Occurrence; Specimen; Occurrence
Contacts
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https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8786-5167
- Principal Investigator
- Curator
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Geographic Coverage
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.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
No Description available
| Kingdom | Plantae (Plants) |
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Temporal Coverage
| Formation Period | early 1800s-present |
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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 methods | Mounted |
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Bibliographic Citations
- 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. http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/iapt/tax/2006/00000055/00000003/art00017
- 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. http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/abs/10.1139/B08-062
- 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. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1095-8339.2009.00996.x/abstract
- 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. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1095-8339.2009.01000.x/abstract
Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | 07fd0d79-4883-435f-bba1-58fef110cd13 |
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| https://data.canadensys.net/ipt/resource?r=ubc-vascular-specimens |