TRTE Herbarium (TRTE)

Sasa Stefanovic1, Kathleen Buck2, Tara Nicholls2

1 University of Toronto Mississauga, 3359 Mississauga Road N, L5L 1C6, Mississauga, Canada; 2 University of Toronto Mississauga, Toronto, Canada

Corresponding author(s): Sasa Stefanovic (sasa.stefanovic@utoronto.ca)

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Citation: Combination of authors, year of data paper publication (in parentheses), Title, Journal Name, Volume, Issue number (in parentheses), and doi of the data paper.

Resource Citation

TRTE Herbarium (TRTE) from University of Toronto Mississauga. http://dx.doi.org/10.5886/b5umch2s (accessed on [date]). doi:10.5886/b5umch2s

Abstract

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.

Keywords: University of Toronto Mississauga, TRTE Herbarium, Canadensys, Ontario, Canada, collection, herbarium, specimens, Occurrence

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

Taxonomic coverage

General taxonomic coverage description: The dataset is primarily composed of the entire Carex collection within the TRTE Herbarium which have all been digitized and databased.
Taxonomic ranks
Kingdom: Plantae
Class: Equisetopsida
Family: Cyperaceae, Rosaceae, Thymelaeaceae
Genus: Carex
Common names: Plants, Vascular Plants, Sedge

Spatial coverage

General spatial 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.
Coordinates: 90°0'0''S and 90°0'0''N Latitude; 180°0'0''W and 180°0'0''E Longitude 

Natural collections description

Parent collection identifier: TRTE
Collection name: TRTE Herbarium
Collection identifier: TRTE
Formation period: 1804- Present
Specimen preservation method: Mounted

Methods

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.
Study extent description: 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.
Sampling description: 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.
Quality control description: Database entries were corrected manually.

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive TRTE Herbarium (TRTE)
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: http://data.canadensys.net/ipt/archive.do?r=trte-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/d/trte-specimens

Dataset description
Object name: GBIF data portal
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: HTML
Distribution: http://www.gbif.org/dataset/7b4543e2-437d-4635-ac11-6a38007f6287

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2012-03-14
Hierarchy level: Dataset