Description
The McGill University Herbarium currently comprises about 140,000 accessioned sheets, including specimens from the McGill College and Macdonald College Herbaria. It was founded in 1856 with the gift of over 500 specimens collected by Dr. A.F. Holmes in Montreal in the early 1820's and is rich in 19th century collections from North America. More recent collections from Quebec, Ontario, and the circumpolar Arctic, including Greenland and Siberia, form the core of the collection. A large collection of Cyperaceae, especially temperate and arctic Carex worldwide, serve as vouchers for DNA sequence data. The database includes about 20,000 records currently digitized from the McGill University Herbarium.
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 20,501 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:
Waterway M, Martins K, Larocque G, Reemeyer J, Beauregard F (2024). McGill University Herbarium Database. Version 2.2. McGill University. Occurrence dataset. https://doi.org/10.5886/srzbj7
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is McGill University. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC 4.0) License.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 55a29b7c-9cb3-4721-b1e3-40561c955e21. McGill University publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Canada Biodiversity Information Facility.
Keywords
Occurrence; Carex; Herbarium; Holmes; MTMG; Arctic; Cyperaceae; Plantae; Specimen; Occurrence
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Geographic Coverage
The range encompassed is global but the majority of specimens are from Canada (especially QC), the United States, Greenland and Siberia
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
The most well represented families in the dataset include 1) Cyperaceae, 2) Lamiaceae and 3) Liliaceae.
Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 1820-01-01 / 2016-01-01 |
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Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | doi:10.5886/srzbj7 |
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| 55a29b7c-9cb3-4721-b1e3-40561c955e21 | |
| https://data.canadensys.net/ipt/resource?r=mtmg-specimens |