Description
Alaska is a large, geographically diverse region. Although only 1/5 the area of the rest of the United States, its shoreline of 75,000 km equals all of that of the Lower 48. The state remains the last major region of the United States for which a seaweed flora has yet to be written. As a preliminary step to writing that flora, Gayle Hansen and Sandra Lindstrom undertook to document the seaweed specimens that had been collected in the State and which are deposited in herbaria around the world, including type specimens of species reported to occur in Alaska. The Alaska Seaweed Database represents Sandra's contribution to that effort. More than 23,000 specimens were examined, and data from these were entered in the database. Since this National Science Foundation project ended in 2003, only a few additional records have been added. However, many additional specimens from Alaska have been deposited in the University of British Columbia herbarium since 2003. These newer records can be accessed at https://collections.beatymuseum.ubc.ca/dataset/90302970-1bc6-4865-be76-9aef1dd707f9
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 23,120 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.
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is University of British Columbia. To the extent possible under law, the publisher has waived all rights to these data and has dedicated them to the Public Domain (CC0 1.0). Users may copy, modify, distribute and use the work, including for commercial purposes, without restriction.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 69644f2c-c2d7-4584-9bca-fe40c2e97d1c. University of British Columbia publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Canada Biodiversity Information Facility.
Keywords
Occurrence; Specimen
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https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8786-5167
Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | https://data.canadensys.net/ipt/resource?r=alaska-seaweed-database |
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