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 33,150 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) - Fungi Collection from University of British Columbia. http://dx.doi.org/10.5886/h4px7g4b (accessed 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: 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
External data
The resource data is also available in other formats
UBC Herbarium Databases | https://herbweb.botany.ubc.ca/herbarium/index.php UTF-8 HTML |
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Canadensys explorer | https://data.canadensys.net/explorer/occurrences/search?q=data_resource_uid:dr29 UTF-8 HTML |
GBIF data portal | https://www.gbif.org/dataset/ca1bcd7e-7387-42f9-81ba-1470db55e3e8 UTF-8 HTML |
Contacts
- Custodian Steward
- Metadata Provider ●
- Originator ●
- Point Of Contact
- Principal Investigator
- Custodian Steward
- Principal Investigator
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] |
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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 |
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Phylum | Basidiomycota, Ascomycota, Amoebozoa (Slime molds) |
Temporal Coverage
Formation Period | early 1900s-present |
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Collection Data
Collection Name | University of British Columbia Herbarium (UBC) - Fungi Collection |
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Collection Identifier | UBC |
Parent Collection Identifier | UBC |
Specimen preservation methods | Dried |
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Additional Metadata
Alternative Identifiers | ca1bcd7e-7387-42f9-81ba-1470db55e3e8 |
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http://dx.doi.org/10.5886/h4px7g4b | |
https://data.canadensys.net/ipt/resource?r=ubc-fungi-specimens |