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University of British Columbia Herbarium (UBC) - Fungi Collection

Version 14.3 published by University of British Columbia on 18 January 2019 University of British Columbia
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Description

This dataset includes all digitized fungi in the UBC collection, encompassing approximately 95% of the collection.

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 32,777 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.

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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) - Fungi Collection from University of British Columbia. http://dx.doi.org/10.5886/h4px7g4b (accessed on [date])

Rights

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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: ca1bcd7e-7387-42f9-81ba-1470db55e3e8.  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; fungi; Occurrence; Specimen

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Contacts

Olivia Lee
  • Metadata Provider
  • Custodian Steward
  • Originator
  • Point Of Contact
Manager of Bryophyhte, Fungi and Lichen Collections
University of British Columbia Herbarium
3529-6270 University Boulevard
V6T 1Z4 Vancouver
British Columbia
CA
(604) 822-3344
Jeannette Whitton
  • Principal Investigator
Director
University of British Columbia Herbarium
3529-6270 University Boulevard
V6T 1Z4 Vancouver
British Columbia
CA
Mary Berbee
  • Principal Investigator
Curator, Fungi
University of British Columbia Herbarium
3529-6270 University Boulevard
V6T 1Z4 Vancouver
British Columbia
CA
University of British Columbia
2329 West Mall
V6T 1Z4 Vancouver
British Columbia
CA

Geographic Coverage

The UBC Herbarium fungi collection is worldwide in scope, with emphasis on British Columbia & North America.

Bounding Coordinates South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180]

Taxonomic Coverage

Fungi represent a separate Kingdom from plants and contain the basidiomycetes (including mushrooms, shelf fungi), ascomycetes (morels, truffles, molds, yeasts), and teliomycetes (smuts, rusts), as well as slime molds.

Kingdom Fungi, Protozoa
Phylum Basidiomycota, Ascomycota, Amoebozoa (Slime molds)

Temporal Coverage

Formation Period early 1900s-present

Collection Data

Collection Name University of British Columbia Herbarium (UBC) - Fungi Collection
Collection Identifier UBC
Parent Collection Identifier UBC
Specimen preservation methods Dried

Additional Metadata

Alternative Identifiers ca1bcd7e-7387-42f9-81ba-1470db55e3e8
http://dx.doi.org/10.5886/h4px7g4b
https://data.canadensys.net/ipt/resource?r=ubc-fungi-specimens