Description
The Louis-Marie Herbarium houses 790000 specimens among which 600000 are vascular plants. The collection also houses 135000 bryophytes and lichens, 13000 fungi as well as a collection of 2000 seeds. The Louis-Marie Herbarium prioritizes the collection of Arctic-alpine, subarctic and boreal species form Canada and the northern hemisphere. The digitization of the collection is a work in progress. This dataset includes more than 65000 specimens of vascular plants from the province of Quebec. / La collection de l'Herbier comprend au total près de 790000 spécimens dont 600000 plantes vasculaires, 135000 bryophytes et lichens, 13000 champignons ainsi qu'une collection de 2000 graines. L'Herbier accorde une priorité aux espèces arctiques-alpines, subarctiques et boréales du Canada et de l'hémisphère nord. Ce jeu de données comprend plus de 65000 spécimens de plantes vasculaires du Québec.
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 176,012 records.
1 extension data tables also exist. An extension record supplies extra information about a core record. The number of records in each extension data table is illustrated below.
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:
Herbier Louis-Marie (QFA) from Université Laval. http://dx.doi.org/10.5886/3p8ltbg7 (accessed on [date]).
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is Université Laval. 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: 2fd02649-fc08-4957-9ac5-2830e072c097. Université Laval publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Canada Biodiversity Information Facility.
Keywords
QFA; Herbier Louis-Marie; Université Laval; Canadensys; Canada; Québec; Québec; collection; herbier; herbarium; plantes arctiques-alpines; plantes vasculaires; arctic-alpine; northern hemisphere; hemisphère nord.; Occurrence; Specimen
External data
The resource data is also available in other formats
| Canadensys explorer | https://data.canadensys.net/explorer/occurrences/search?q=data_resource_uid:dr62#tab_mapView UTF-8 HTML |
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| GBIF data portal | https://www.gbif.org/dataset/2fd02649-fc08-4957-9ac5-2830e072c097 UTF-8 HTML |
Contacts
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Geographic Coverage
The Louis-Marie herbarium grants a priority to the Arctic-alpine, subarctic and boreal species from the province of Quebec and the northern hemisphere. This dataset is mainly populated with specimens from the province of Quebec. / L'Herbier Louis-Marie accorde une priorité aux espèces arctiques-alpines, subarctiques et boréales du Québec, du Canada et de l'hémisphère nord. Ce jeu présente principalement des spécimens provenant du Québec.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [43.68, -86.64], North East [63.48, -53.28] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
This dataset includes vascular plants of 145 different families. The most represented families are Asteraceae (7.75%), Cyperaceae (7.25%), Poaceae (6.25%), Lycopodiaceae (6.20%), Rosaceae (5.4%) and Equisetaceae (4.75%). / Le jeu de données comprend des plantes vasculaires de 145 familles différentes. Les familles les plus représentées sont Asteraceae (7.75%), Cyperaceae (7.25%), Poaceae (6.25%), Lycopodiaceae (6.20%), Rosaceae (5.4%) et Equisetaceae (4.75%).
| Family | Asteraceae (Asteracées), Cyperaceae (Cypéracées), Poaceae (Poacées), Lycopodiaceae (Lycopodiacées), Rosaceae (Rosacées), Equisetaceae (Équisetacées) |
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Temporal Coverage
| Formation Period | 1824-present |
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Collection Data
| Collection Name | Herbier Louis-Marie |
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| Collection Identifier | QFA |
| Parent Collection Identifier | QFA |
| Specimen preservation methods | Mounted |
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Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | 2fd02649-fc08-4957-9ac5-2830e072c097 |
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| http://dx.doi.org/10.5886/3p8ltbg7 | |
| https://data.canadensys.net/ipt/resource?r=qfa-vascular-specimens |