Description
This dataset includes all digitized algae in the UBC collection, encompassing approximately 80% of the collection. During the course of Robert Scagel’s academic career (1952-1986) and assisted by graduate students and postdoctoral fellows carrying out research on benthic marine algae, Scagel oversaw the expansion of the Phycological Herbarium to its present size of over 67,000 specimens. During this period, with support from U.B.C., the National Research Council of Canada (NSERC), the Defence Research Board of Canada, the Fisheries Research Board of Canada, the Provincial Fisheries Department, the B.C. Research Council and the National Science Foundation (U.S.), collecting activities were carried out all along the Pacific Coast from central California to Alaska, including the Aleutian Islands as far west as Attu Island. Collections from these surveys were deposited in the Phycological Collection at U.B.C. The Alaska representation in the Phycological Collection has been significantly augmented since 1986 by donations from Sandra Lindstrom.
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 79,054 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
Please be aware, this is an old version of the dataset. Researchers should cite this work as follows:
University of British Columbia Herbarium (UBC). http://dx.doi.org/10.5886/ujwtvvs2. (consulted on [date])
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: 90302970-1bc6-4865-be76-9aef1dd707f9. University of British Columbia publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Canada Biodiversity Information Facility.
Keywords
UBC; University of British Columbia Herbarium; Beaty Biodiversity Museum; Canadensys; Canada; British Columbia; collection; herbarium; specimens; algae; Occurrence; Specimen
External data
The resource data is also available in other formats
| UBC Herbarium Databases | https://databases.beatymuseum.ubc.ca/ UTF-8 HTML |
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| Canadensys explorer | http://data.canadensys.net/explorer/en/resources/ubc-algae-specimens UTF-8 HTML |
| GBIF data portal | http://www.gbif.org/dataset/90302970-1bc6-4865-be76-9aef1dd707f9 UTF-8 HTML |
Contacts
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Geographic Coverage
The strength of the U.B.C. Phycological Collection is primarily in the northeast Pacific, where its holdings represent the most comprehensive of any Herbarium. In addition, smaller collections made UBC Botanists in Australia, New Zealand, Hawaii, Mauritius, East Africa and Japan and frequent exchanges with other institutions have expanded the geographic breadth of the Collection.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
The algal collection is composed of mainly macroscopic algae, with significant representation of seaweeds of the Northeast Pacific Ocean. The collection also includes packages of organisms such as diatoms, dinoflagellates, and water moulds. Some blue-green algae are also represented.
| Phylum | Chlorophyta, Cyanobacteria, Euglenozoa, Myzozoa, Ochrophyta, Oomycota, Rhodophyta |
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Temporal Coverage
| Formation Period | mid 1800s-present |
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Collection Data
| Collection Name | University of British Columbia Herbarium (UBC) - Algae Collection |
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| Collection Identifier | UBC |
| Parent Collection Identifier | UBC |
| Specimen preservation methods | Mounted |
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Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | 90302970-1bc6-4865-be76-9aef1dd707f9 |
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| https://data.canadensys.net/ipt/resource?r=ubc-algae-specimens |