University of British Columbia Botanical Garden Collections (UBCBG)

Daniel Mosquin1, Eric La Fountaine1, Sean Graham2

1 University of British Columbia Botanical Garden, 6804 SW Marine Drive, V6T 1Z4, Vancouver, Canada; 2 University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Corresponding author(s): Daniel Mosquin (daniel.mosquin@ubc.ca)

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Resource Citation

University of British Columbia Botanical Garden (UBCBG). http://dx.doi.org/10.5886/f6tdd5ap (accessed on [date]). doi:10.5886/f6tdd5ap

Abstract

University of British Columbia Botanical Garden curates a collection of ca. 12 000 plants representing approximately 8000 taxa from temperate regions around the world. Temperate forest plants of British Columbia, eastern North America and Asia are curated in woodland gardens, while a classic alpine garden displays the diverse flora of high-altitude regions of the world. Other gardens include a Food Garden, a Physic (Medicinal) Garden, an Arbour, and a Perennial Borders Garden.

Keywords: Occurrence, Specimen, UBCBG, University of British Columbia, Canadensys, Canada, British Columbia, Asia, living collection

Project details

Project title: University of British Columbia Botanical Garden
Personnel: Douglas Justice
Funding: Canadian Foundation for Innovation; ongoing internally-funded by University of British Columbia

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

Taxonomic coverage

General taxonomic coverage description: The dataset includes all accessioned vascular plants (seeded and non-seeded) planted within the University of British Columbia Botanical Garden.
Taxonomic ranks
Kingdom: Plantae
Common names: Plants

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: Taxa present in the Garden are from temperate regions around the world, but the living collections are all grown on the University of British Columbia Point Grey campus.
Coordinates: 49°14'24''N and 49°16'12''N Latitude; 123°16'12''W and 123°14'24''W Longitude 

Natural collections description

Parent collection identifier: UBC
Collection name: University of British Columbia Botanical Garden Collections
Collection identifier: UBCBG
Formation period: 1950s-present
Specimen preservation method: No treatment
Curatorial unit: 8000 with an uncertainty of 1000 (living taxa)

Methods

Method step description: 

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive University of British Columbia Botanical Garden Collections (UBCBG)
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: http://data.canadensys.net/ipt/archive.do?r=ubcbg-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/ubcbg-specimens

Dataset description
Object name: GBIF data portal
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: HTML
Distribution: http://www.gbif.org/dataset/c5da77b7-7423-49a4-a379-f423ea0f07b8

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2013-08-23
Hierarchy level: Dataset