Description
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) maintains a National Collection of Vascular Plants, internationally known by the acronym DAO (for Department of Agriculture, Ottawa). Located on AAFC's Central Experimental Farm, it is the largest collection of its kind in Canada. Properly called a herbarium, it includes 1.5 million irreplaceable specimens protected in a climate-controlled environment. When adequately protected from moisture and pests, dried specimens can last for hundreds of years in the herbarium. This is a tremendous resource that allows identification of plants from anywhere in Canada and supports research on plant classification worldwide. DAO is working to digitize its holdings and make them accessible online. Datasets will be added and updated as this work progresses. Refer to our website for more information https://agriculture.canada.ca/en/agricultural-science-and-innovation/agriculture-and-agri-food-research-centres-and-collections/national-collection-vascular-plants-dao
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 1,632 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:
(2022): National Collection of Vascular Plants (DAO). v1.1. Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. Dataset/Occurrence. https://doi.org/10.5886/giqh2f
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 10cf770a-282a-41dd-9e19-83b7c894b956. Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Canada Biodiversity Information Facility.
Keywords
Occurrence; Specimen
Contacts
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Geographic Coverage
Global terrestrial coverage. Most of the specimens in the collection are from Canada (about 62%), but the north temperate region of the world is generally well represented (United States of America 20%, Europe 10%).
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180] |
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Temporal Coverage
| Formation Period | The collection contains specimens collected from the 1800s until present day. |
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Collection Data
| Collection Name | National Collection of Vascular Plants |
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| Collection Identifier | DAO |
| Specimen preservation methods | Mounted |
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Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | 10.5886/giqh2f |
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| 10cf770a-282a-41dd-9e19-83b7c894b956 | |
| https://data.canadensys.net/ipt/resource?r=dao-specimens |