Description
The TRTE Herbarium is administered and overseen by the Department of Biology at the University of Toronto at Mississauga. Our herbarium, founded in 1969, houses about 95,000 specimens of vascular plants, including the extensive collections of Paul F. Maycock and Peter W. Ball. Geographically, the herbarium’s main focus is on vascular plant specimens from Ontario, but important collections are also available from Québec and the Canadian high Arctic. Small quantities of specimens are available from all other regions of Canada, United States, Western Australia, New Zealand, and West Africa (Nigeria, Sierra Leone). Taxonomically, our herbarium is particularly strong in its representation of sedges (genus Carex), mainly from eastern Canada and, to a lesser extent, from elsewhere in Canada and the United States.
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 10,959 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:
TRTE Herbarium (TRTE) from University of Toronto Mississauga. http://dx.doi.org/10.5886/b5umch2s (accessed on [date]).
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is University of Toronto Mississauga. 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: 7b4543e2-437d-4635-ac11-6a38007f6287. University of Toronto Mississauga publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Canada Biodiversity Information Facility.
Keywords
University of Toronto Mississauga; TRTE Herbarium; Canadensys; Ontario; Canada; collection; herbarium; specimens; Occurrence
External data
The resource data is also available in other formats
| Canadensys explorer | http://data.canadensys.net/explorer/d/trte-specimens UTF-8 HTML |
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| GBIF data portal | http://www.gbif.org/dataset/7b4543e2-437d-4635-ac11-6a38007f6287 UTF-8 HTML |
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Geographic Coverage
Geographically, the herbarium’s main focus is on vascular plant specimens from Ontario, but important collections are also available from Québec and the Canadian high Arctic. Small quantities of specimens are available from all other regions of Canada, United States, Western Australia, New Zealand, and West Africa (Nigeria, Sierra Leone). There are also some smaller collections within the herbarium that stem from research initiatives across the globe.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
The dataset is primarily composed of the entire Carex collection within the TRTE Herbarium which have all been digitized and databased.
| Kingdom | Plantae (Plants) |
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| Class | Equisetopsida (Vascular Plants) |
| Family | Cyperaceae, Rosaceae, Thymelaeaceae |
| Genus | Carex (Sedge) |
Temporal Coverage
| Formation Period | 1804- Present |
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Sampling Methods
All specimens were manually digitized using an EPSON Expression 10000XL flatbed scanner into .jpg files. Data from these high resolution scans were then entered into the database.
| Study Extent | Digitization of specimens from the TRTE Herbarium with a strong representation of sedges (genus Carex), mainly from eastern Canada and, to a lesser extent, from elsewhere in Canada and the United States. |
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| Quality Control | Database entries were corrected manually. |
Method step description:
- Each specimen was labelled using a unique barcode (ex. TRTE0000001). These specimens were then scanned using an EPSON Expression 10000XL scanner. Information from the labels on the specimens were then entered manually into the database.
Collection Data
| Collection Name | TRTE Herbarium |
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| Collection Identifier | TRTE |
| Parent Collection Identifier | TRTE |
| Specimen preservation methods | Mounted |
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Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | 7b4543e2-437d-4635-ac11-6a38007f6287 |
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| https://data.canadensys.net/ipt/resource?r=trte-specimens |