McGill University Herbarium Database

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 26,033 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 (2026). McGill University Herbarium Database. Version 2.3. 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

Contacts

Geographic Coverage

The range encompassed is global but the majority of specimens are from Canada (especially QC), the United States, Greenland and Siberia

Temporal Coverage

Additional Metadata