Checklist

The bees of British Columbia (Hymenoptera: Apoidea, Apiformes)

Latest version published by Royal Saskatchewan Museum on 31 January 2019 Royal Saskatchewan Museum
Publication date:
31 January 2019
License:
CC0 1.0

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Description

Dataset contains a checklist of bee species known to occur in the Canadian province of British Columbia based on literature records and specimens.

Data Records

The data in this checklist 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 617 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:

Sheffield CS, Heron JM (2019) The bees of British Columbia (Hymenoptera: Apoidea, Apiformes). Journal of the Entomological Society of British Columbia. Dataset/Species checklist. http://doi.org/

Rights

Researchers should respect the following rights statement:

The publisher and rights holder of this work is Royal Saskatchewan Museum. 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: 7b944cc6-1ffa-49de-aab8-2a5ab543422b.  Royal Saskatchewan Museum publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Canada Biodiversity Information Facility.

Keywords

Checklist; Inventoryregional

Contacts

Cory Sheffiled
  • Metadata Provider
  • Author
  • Originator
  • Point Of Contact
Curator of Invertebrate Zoology
Regina
2340 Albert Street
S4P 2V7 Regina
Saskatchewan
CA
3067872850
Jennifer Heron
  • Metadata Provider
  • Author
Invertebrate Conservation Specialist
British Columbia Ministry of Environment and Climate Change Strategy
Suite 200 - 10428
V3R 1E1 Surrey
British Columbia
CA
6045865651

Geographic Coverage

Covers the Canadian Province of British Columbia.

Bounding Coordinates South West [48.922, -139.219], North East [59.977, -114.346]

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 1861-01-01 / 2019-01-23

Project Data

No Description available

Title The bees of British Columbia (Hymenoptera: Apoidea, Apiformes)
Study Area Description British Columbia, Canada

The personnel involved in the project:

Cory Sheffiled
Jennifer Heron
  • Principal Investigator

Bibliographic Citations

  1. Sheffield CS, Heron JM (2019) The bees of British Columbia (Hymenoptera: Apoidea, Apiformes). Journal of the Entomological Society of British Columbia. Dataset/Species checklist. http://doi.org/

Additional Metadata

Alternative Identifiers 10.5886/nkzfxc
https://data.canadensys.net/ipt/resource?r=bee-bc-sheffield