OAC-BIO Herbarium

Subramanyam Ragupathy1

1 University of Guelph, University of Guelph, 50 Stone Rd, N1G2W1, Guelph, Canada

Corresponding author(s): Subramanyam Ragupathy (ragu@uoguelph.ca)

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Resource Citation

OAC-Herbarium, Biodiversity Institute of Ontario from University of Guelph. http://dx.doi.org/10.5886/66f3rsta (accessed on [date]) doi:10.5886/66f3rsta

Abstract

The BIO Herbarium at the University of Guelph houses approximately 100,000 (image data for 65,535) herbarium specimens, collected from all around the world. The collection provides excellent coverage in ethnobotanical notes and houses vouchers for the Flora Ontario Integrated Botanical Information System (FOIBIS). The collection also contains DNA Barcoding vouchers for the Center for Biodiversity Intitute of Ontario (CBG) of the Biodiversity Institute of Ontario. BIO Herbarium is committed to making this important collection more accessible to botanists and others, wherever they may be, for use in their own projects: particularly in biodiversity, conservation, sustainable development and systematics. To this end we have developed HIMS, which contains labelled information and images of all the specimens at the BIO Herbarium.

Keywords: Occurrence, Specimen, OAC; OAC-BIO herbarium; University of Guelph Arboretum; Barcode of Life Collections; Ontario; Collections; Herbarium; Specimens; Medicinal Plant Collections; Weeds of Ontario; Cnanadensys; Occurrence; Crops collection

Project details

Project title: OAC-BIO Herbarium Information Management System (HIMS)
Personnel: Subramanyam Ragupathy
Funding: Canada Foundation for Innovation

Data published through GBIF: http://data.canadensys.net/ipt/resource?r=oac-specimens

Taxonomic coverage

General taxonomic coverage description: This dataset includes Plantae- vascular and non-vascular plant specimens from the OAC-BIO Herbarium, Biodiversity Institute of Ontario, University of Guelph teaching collection that have been digitized, databased (partially). 
Major groups are: Lichens, Bryophytes, Pteridophytes, Gymnosperms and Angiosperms.
Taxonomic ranks
Kingdom: Plantae

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: The Ontario Agricultural College was instrumental in establishing the OAC Herbarium and hence the collection reflects this history with an impressive collection of weeds (Pre -1800). Most of these collections are vouchers from current research projects including the Flora Ontario project. However, there are smaller collections within the herbarium that arm from research initiatives across the globe.
Coordinates: 42°11'24''N and 82°49'48''N Latitude; 166°5'24''W and 63°7'12''W Longitude 

Natural collections description

Parent collection identifier: Respective donor or project investigator
Collection name: OAC-BIO Herbarium
Collection identifier: Respective donor or project investigator
Specimen preservation method: Mounted

Methods

Method step description: Data are entered into the Herbarium Information System (HIMS) and some records determined by taxonomic experts.
Study extent description: The Herbarium collection has increased from 85000-128000 specimens in the last three years. Most of these collections are vouchers from current research projects including the Flora Ontario project. Dr Newmaster arranged for the donation of several specialized collections from the Canadian National Museum, Royal Ontario Museum, Royal Botanical Gardens, University of Alberta, University of British Columbia, Canadian Forest Service, Botanical Research Institute of Texas and the Missouri Botanical Gardens. Starting in 2006, the OAC Herbarium will become the repository of all plant vouchers for the Canadian Barcode of Life Consortium, which just received funding from Genome Canada ($630,798 for plants) to barcode plants in Canada. This will include the archival of herbarium vouchers, preserved leaves in silica gel and the extraction of each specimens DNA for cryopreservation.
Sampling description: Floristic diversity; Weeds of Ontario collection; DNA barcoding collections- collection, identification, preparation of typical herbarium vouchers, accessing in to OAC-BIO herbarium by the respective project investigator.
Quality control description: Records are edited on an ad hoc basis.

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive OAC-BIO Herbarium
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: http://data.canadensys.net/ipt/archive.do?r=oac-specimens
Publication date of data: 2016-02-15
Language: English
Licences of use: To the extent possible under law, the publisher has waived all rights to these data and has dedicated them to the <a href="http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode">Public Domain (CC0 1.0)</a>. Users may copy, modify, distribute and use the work, including for commercial purposes, without restriction.

External datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Canadensys explorer
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: HTML
Distribution: http://data.canadensys.net/explorer/en/resources/oac-specimens

Dataset description
Object name: GBIF data portal
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: HTML
Distribution: http://www.gbif.org/dataset/68829f71-56b1-4015-a363-ef8f0e1d6e4f

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2014-05-08
Hierarchy level: Dataset