Living Prairie Museum Manitoba Herbarium (LPMMBH)

Kaman Choi1, Sarah Semmler1

1 Living Prairie Museum, 2795 Ness Ave., R3J 3S4, Winnipeg, Canada

Corresponding author(s): Kaman Choi (KChoi@winnipeg.ca)

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Citation: Combination of authors, year of data paper publication (in parentheses), Title, Journal Name, Volume, Issue number (in parentheses), and doi of the data paper.

Resource Citation

Choi K (2016): Living Prairie Museum Manitoba Herbarium (LPMMBH). v2.3. Living Prairie Museum. Dataset/Occurrence. http://doi.org/10.5886/rocthg http://doi.org/10.5886/rocthg

Abstract

The Living Prairie Museum Herbarium is located within the Living Prairie Museum Interpretative Centre (LPM) located in the City of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Founded  in 1967, the LPM Herbarium  contains over 250 vascular plant specimens, with a focus on plants found  in native tall grass prairie habitat. Many of the specimens were collected during surveys by the International Biological Program, which lead to the protection of the 12 hectare (30 acre) remnant tall grass prairie site that would become LPM. The establishment and registration of our digitized herbarium is an important step towards sharing the diversity of tall grass prairie species with the international community. This dataset represents the digitized vascular plant specimens collected mostly within the city of Winnipeg.

Keywords: Occurrence, Specimen, observation, LPM, LPMMBH, Living Prairie Museum, Herbarium of the Living Prairie Museum, Canadensys, Canada, Manitoba, Winnipeg, collection, herbarium, specimens, vascular plants, tall grass prairie

Data published through GBIF: http://data.canadensys.net/ipt/resource?r=lpmmbh

Taxonomic coverage

General taxonomic coverage description: This dataset includes all digitized vascular plants in the collection. The top three families are Asteraceae (21%), Fabaceae (13%), and Poaceae (13%).
Taxonomic ranks
Kingdom: Plantae
Subkingdom: Viridiplantae
Superphylum: Embryophyta
Phylum: Teacheophyta
Common names: Plants, Vascular Plants

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: Most specimens were found within the city of Winnipeg.
Coordinates: 49°45'36''N and 49°59'38.4''N Latitude; 97°20'6''W and 96°57'18''W Longitude 

Natural collections description

Parent collection identifier: Not applicable
Collection name: Living Prairie Museum Herbarium
Collection identifier: LPMMBH
Formation period: 1967-present
Specimen preservation method: Mounted
Curatorial unit: Between 350 and 450 (Specimens)

Methods

Method step description: 
- . 	Examine specimen and annotation labels. Verify and update determination if qualified.
Search specimen record in collection database and update where necessary, or create new record and populate fields with the information on the specimen label. Assign a unique accession number to the specimen.
- . 	Record specimen data in a related table.
Verify locality provided on specimen labels with online databases to ensure quality of geographic data.
Georeferences provided on labels are validated using online maps (Google Maps) and corrected at need, with the addition of a measure of inaccuracy.
Study extent description: Digitization of vascular plant specimens from the Herbarium of the Living Prairie Museum.
Sampling description: Data is manually digitized as text from specimen labels. Specimens are taken after georeference data, habitat data, and date is recorded. Specimens are given a tentative identification in field and a more rigorous identification at the herbarium using Scoggan's 1957 Flora of Manitoba and the online Flora of North America. Scientific names and authors are verified using ITIS (Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
Quality control description: Data from old specimens were formatted to fit the new database structure (Darwin Core). Inconsistencies were corrected systematically for determinations and geography data. New, unique accession numbers were assigned to old specimens and inaccurate georeferenced data were corrected. New specimens are numbered and data on each specimen is recorded with correlating accession numbers. Specimens are validated before databasing to ensure identification accuracy.

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive Living Prairie Museum Manitoba Herbarium (LPMMBH)
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: http://data.canadensys.net/ipt/archive.do?r=lpmmbh
Publication date of data: 2017-12-14
Language: English
Licences of use: Public Domain (CC0 1.0)

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2016-08-05
Hierarchy level: Dataset