McGill University Herbarium Database

Marcia Waterway1, Kyle Martins2, Guillaume Larocque3, Valerie Gravel2

1 McGill University Herbarium, Plant Science Dept., 21,111 Lakeshore Road, H9X 3V9, Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, Canada; 2 McGill University Herbarium, 21,111 Lakeshore Road, H9X 3V9, Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, Canada; 3 Quebec Centre for Biodiversity Sciences, Biology Dept., McGill, 1205 ave Dr. Penfield, H3A 1B1, Montreal, Canada

Corresponding author(s): Marcia Waterway (marcia.waterway@mcgill.ca)Kyle Martins (kyle.tmartins@gmail.com)Guillaume Larocque (guillaume.larocque@mcill.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

Waterway M, Martins K, Larocque G (2016): McGill University Herbarium Database. v2.1. McGill University. Dataset/Occurrence. https://doi.org/10.5886/srzbj7 http://doi.org/10.5886/srzbj7

Abstract

THe McGill University Herbarium currently comprises about 140,000 sheets, including specimens from the McGill College and Macdonald College Herbaria. It was founded in 1860 with the gift of 500 specimens collected by Dr. A.F. Holmes in Montreal in the early 1820's and is rich in 19th century collections from North America. More recent collections from Quebec, Ontario, and the circumpolar Arctic, including Greenland and Siberia, form the core of the collection. A large collection of Cyperaceae, especially temperate and arctic Carex worldwide, serve as vouchers for DNA sequence data. The database includes about 20,000 records currently digitized from the McGill University Herbarium.

Keywords: Occurrence, Carex, Herbarium, MTMG, Arctic, Cyperaceae, Plantae, Specimen

Data published through GBIF: https://data.canadensys.net/ipt/resource?r=mtmg-specimens

Taxonomic coverage

General taxonomic coverage description: The most well represented families in the dataset include 1) Cyperaceae, 2) Lamiaceae and 3) Liliaceae.

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: The range encompassed is global but the majority of specimens are from Canada (especially QC), the United States, Greenland and Siberia
Coordinates: 90°0'0''S and 90°0'0''N Latitude; 180°0'0''W and 180°0'0''E Longitude 

Temporal coverage: 1820 - 2016

Methods

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Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive McGill University Herbarium Database
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: https://data.canadensys.net/ipt/archive.do?r=mtmg-specimens
Publication date of data: 2018-12-20
Language: English
Licences of use: Public Domain (CC0 1.0)

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2016-08-17
Hierarchy level: Dataset