University of Manitoba Herbarium (WIN) - Vascular Plant Collection

Occurrence Specimen
Latest version published by University of Manitoba on Feb 15, 2024 University of Manitoba
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Publication date:
February 15, 2024
Published by:
University of Manitoba
License:
CC0 1.0

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Data as a DwC-A file download 29,115 records in English (5 MB) - Update frequency: annually
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Description

Founded in 1907, the Herbarium of the Department of Biological Sciences (WIN) houses the most extensive and broadly representative collection of plants in Manitoba, approximately 85,000 vascular plants. There is also a reference seed collection. Many of the specimens represent vouchers for various floristic, environmental, and ecological studies carried out by present and former members of the Department and the broader scientific community. The collections have played an important role in the development of such publications as Budd’s Flora of the Canadian Prairie Provinces and Scoggan’s Flora of Manitoba and Flora of Canada. They also provide an important reference source for floristic and vegetation studies within the province. Most recently the collections have been used as a source of genetic material for a number of molecular phylogenetic studies, especially those on the systematics of Carex for documenting the distribution and ecology of Manitoba’s rare and endangered plants species, and for providing distributional and taxonomic information for the Flora of North America Project. This dataset represents the digitized vascular plant specimens collected in Manitoba.

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 29,115 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.

Occurrence (core)
29115
Multimedia 
22741

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:

University of Manitoba Herbarium (WIN) from University of Manitoba. http://dx.doi.org/10.5886/2fva5p4r (accessed on [date])

Rights

Researchers should respect the following rights statement:

The publisher and rights holder of this work is University of Manitoba. 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: b22b10e7-86da-4b80-8f49-f3f958a2463d.  University of Manitoba publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Canada Biodiversity Information Facility.

Keywords

WIN; University of Manitoba Herbarium; University of Manitoba; Canadensys; Canada; Manitoba; collection; herbarium; specimens; vascular plants; Occurrence; Specimen; Occurrence

External data

The resource data is also available in other formats

Canadensys explorer https://data.canadensys.net/explorer/occurrences/search?q=data_resource_uid:dr17 UTF-8 HTML
GBIF data portal http://www.gbif.org/dataset/b22b10e7-86da-4b80-8f49-f3f958a2463d UTF-8 HTML

Contacts

Bruce Ford
  • Originator
  • Professor and Curator
University of Manitoba
  • 433 Buller building
R3T 2N2 Winnipeg
Manitoba
CA
  • 1-204-474-6994
Diana Sawatzky
  • Metadata Provider ●
  • Point Of Contact
  • Curator
University of Manitoba
  • 433 Buller building
R3T 2N2 Winnipeg
Manitoba
CA
  • (204) 474-9208
University of Manitoba
  • 66 Chancellors Circle
R3T 2N2 Winnipeg
Manitoba
CA

Geographic Coverage

The dataset represents vascular plant specimens collected in Manitoba.

Bounding Coordinates South West [48.99, -102], North East [60.02, -88.81]

Taxonomic Coverage

The dataset represents vascular plant specimens collected in Manitoba.

Kingdom Plantae (Plants)

Temporal Coverage

Formation Period mid 1800s-present

Collection Data

Collection Name University of Manitoba Herbarium
Collection Identifier WIN
Parent Collection Identifier WIN
Specimen preservation methods Mounted
Curatorial Units Between 85,000 and 1,000 Herbarium sheets/records

Additional Metadata

Alternative Identifiers 10.5886/2fva5p4r
b22b10e7-86da-4b80-8f49-f3f958a2463d
http://dx.doi.org/10.5886/2fva5p4r
https://data.canadensys.net/ipt/resource?r=win-vascular-specimens