Author: Amber Saundry
Keywords: UBC, University of British Columbia Herbarium, Beaty Biodiversity Museum, Canadensys, Canada, British Columbia, collection, herbarium, specimens, fungi, Occurrence, Specimen

University of British Columbia Herbarium (UBC) - Fungi Collection

Olivia Lee^1, Jeannette Whitton^1, Mary Berbee^1

1 University of British Columbia Herbarium, 3529-6270 University Boulevard, V6T 1Z4, Vancouver, Canada

Corresponding author(s): Olivia Lee (UBC.Herbarium@ubc.ca)

Received {date}; Revised {date}; Accepted {date}; Published {date}

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

University of British Columbia Herbarium (UBC) - Fungi Collection from University of British Columbia. http://dx.doi.org/10.5886/h4px7g4b (accessed on [date]) doi:10.5886/h4px7g4b

Abstract

This dataset includes all digitized fungi in the UBC collection, encompassing approximately 95% of the collection.

Keywords: UBC, University of British Columbia Herbarium, Beaty Biodiversity Museum, Canadensys, Canada, British Columbia, collection, herbarium, specimens, fungi, Occurrence, Specimen

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

Taxonomic coverage

General taxonomic coverage description: 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.
Taxonomic ranks
Kingdom: Fungi, Protozoa
Phylum: Basidiomycota, Ascomycota, Amoebozoa
Common names: Slime molds

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: The UBC Herbarium fungi collection is worldwide in scope, with emphasis on British Columbia & North America.
Coordinates: 90°0'0''S and 90°0'0''N Latitude; 180°0'0''W and 180°0'0''E Longitude 

Natural collections description

Parent collection identifier: UBC
Collection name: University of British Columbia Herbarium (UBC) - Fungi Collection
Collection identifier: UBC
Formation period: early 1900s-present
Specimen preservation method: Dried

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive University of British Columbia Herbarium (UBC) - Fungi Collection
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: https://data.canadensys.net/ipt/archive.do?r=ubc-fungi-specimens
Publication date of data: 2019-01-18
Language: English
Licences of use: Public Domain (CC0 1.0)

External datasets

Dataset description
Object name: UBC Herbarium Databases
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: HTML
Distribution: http://www.biodiversity.ubc.ca/museum/herbarium/database.html

Dataset description
Object name: Canadensys explorer
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: HTML
Distribution: http://data.canadensys.net/explorer/en/resources/ubc-fungi-specimens

Dataset description
Object name: GBIF data portal
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: HTML
Distribution: http://www.gbif.org/dataset/ca1bcd7e-7387-42f9-81ba-1470db55e3e8

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2012-04-11
Hierarchy level: Dataset