Description
With 40,000 lichen specimens catalogued to date, the UBC Herbarium houses one of the largest lichen collections in western North America. We have a very solid macrolichen collection, with a strong focus on cyanolichens, especially the genus Peltigera. For this genus, at least, this is certainly the largest collection in North America. The collection is also strong in Calicioids as well as in other microlichen groups characteristic of oldgrowth forests. Taken as a whole, the collection is very strong on epiphytic lichens, and rather strong on terricolous lichens, especially macrolichens.
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 56,699 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
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
University of British Columbia Lichen Collection (UBC). http://dx.doi.org/10.5886/8hh3tyfd. (consulted on [date])
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GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 628abbe5-dc8d-41e9-a0c7-f05efe282649. University of British Columbia publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Canada Biodiversity Information Facility.
Keywords
Occurrence; UBC; University of British Columbia Herbarium; Beaty Biodiversity Museum; Canadensys; Canada; British Columbia; collection; herbarium; specimens; lichen; 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?dr19 UTF-8 HTML |
| GBIF data portal | https://www.gbif.org/dataset/628abbe5-dc8d-41e9-a0c7-f05efe282649 UTF-8 HTML |
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Geographic Coverage
We have a very solid macrolichen collection, with a strong focus on cyanolichens, especially the genus Peltigera. For this genus, at least, this is certainly the largest collection in North America. The collection is also strong in Calicioids as well as in other microlichen groups characteristic of oldgrowth forests. Taken as a whole, the collection is very strong on epiphytic lichens, and rather strong on terricolous lichens, especially macrolichens.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
We have a very solid macrolichen collection, with a strong focus on cyanolichens, especially the genus Peltigera. For this genus, at least, this is certainly the largest collection in North America. The collection is also strong in Calicioids as well as in other microlichen groups characteristic of oldgrowth forests. Taken as a whole, the collection is very strong on epiphytic lichens, and rather strong on terricolous lichens, especially macrolichens.
| Kingdom | Lichen (Lichen) |
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Temporal Coverage
| Formation Period | early 1900s-present |
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Collection Data
| Collection Name | University of British Columbia Herbarium (UBC) - Lichen Collection |
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| Collection Identifier | UBC |
| Parent Collection Identifier | UBC |
| Specimen preservation methods | Mounted |
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Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | 628abbe5-dc8d-41e9-a0c7-f05efe282649 |
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| https://data.canadensys.net/ipt/resource?r=ubc-lichen |