University of British Columbia Herbarium (UBC) - Vascular Plant Collection

Linda Jennings1, Jeannette Whitton1, Sean Graham1, Quentin Cronk1

1 University of British Columbia Herbarium, 3529-6270 University Boulevard, V6T 1Z4, Vancouver, Canada

Corresponding author(s): Linda Jennings (linda.jennings@beatymuseum.ubc.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

University of British Columbia Herbarium (UBC). http://dx.doi.org/10.5886/rtt57cc9. (consulted on [date]) doi:10.5886/rtt57cc9

Abstract

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.

Keywords: UBC, University of British Columbia Herbarium, Beaty Biodiversity Museum, Canadensys, Canada, British Columbia, collection, herbarium, specimens, vascular plants, Occurrence, Specimen

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

Taxonomic coverage

Taxonomic ranks
Kingdom: Plantae
Common names: Plants

Spatial coverage

General spatial 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.
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: UBC
Collection name: University of British Columbia Herbarium (UBC) - Vascular Plant Collection
Collection identifier: UBC
Formation period: early 1800s-present
Specimen preservation method: Mounted

Methods

Method step description: 

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive University of British Columbia Herbarium (UBC) - Vascular Plant Collection
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: http://data.canadensys.net/ipt/archive.do?r=ubc-vascular-specimens
Publication date of data: 2014-09-12
Language: English
Licenses of use: http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ & http://www.canadensys.net/norms

External datasets

Dataset description
Object name: UBC Herbarium Databases
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: HTML
Distribution: http://www.biodiversity.ubc.ca/museum/herbarium/database.html

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

Dataset description
Object name: GBIF data portal
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: HTML
Distribution: http://www.gbif.org/dataset/07fd0d79-4883-435f-bba1-58fef110cd13

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2012-02-17
Hierarchy level: Dataset

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