Antarctic Plant Database

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Description

The Antarctic Plant Database is a database of the plant collections held in the British Antarctic Survey's herbarium (international code AAS). This contains over 50,000 plant specimens from Antarctica, the sub-Antarctic Islands and surrounding continents (especially Fuegia and Patagonia). Over 2000 species are represented, comprising predominantly mosses, liverworts and lichens with smaller collections of vascular plants, macro-algae and macro-fungi.

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 52,689 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.

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:

UK Polar Data Centre. Antarctic Plant Database, https://data.bas.ac.uk/full-record.php?id=GB/NERC/BAS/AEDC/00023 Accessed on [dd/mm/yyyy]

Rights

Researchers should respect the following rights statement:

The publisher and rights holder of this work is UK Polar Data Centre. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 82d9ff5c-f762-11e1-a439-00145eb45e9a. UK Polar Data Centre publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by National Biodiversity Network.

Keywords

Occurrence; Specimen; fungus; lichen; moss; liverwort; fern; vascular plant; taxonomy; biogeography; herbarium

Contacts

Helen Peat

Originator

Head of UK Polar Data Centre

UK Polar Data Centre, British Antarctic Survey

GB

hjp@bas.ac.uk

http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2017-8597

Mari Whitelaw

Metadata Provider ●
Point Of Contact

Scientific Data Manager

UK Polar Data Centre, British Antarctic Survey

GB

martel@bas.ac.uk

http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7555-1550

Geographic Coverage

Antarctica, the sub-Antarctic Islands and surrounding continents (especially Fuegia and Patagonia) and Arctic

Bounding Coordinates	South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180]

Taxonomic Coverage

Note: fungi are predominantly lichenised with some non-lichenised specimens

Kingdom	Fungi
Phylum	Tracheophyta, Bryophyta, Marchantiophyta, Chlorophyta, Cyanobacteria

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date	1885-11-13 / 2018-01-20

Collection Data

Collection Name	British Antarctic Survey Herbarium
Collection Identifier	AAS

Specimen preservation methods	Dried

Additional Metadata

Alternative Identifiers	82d9ff5c-f762-11e1-a439-00145eb45e9a
	https://ipt.data.bas.ac.uk/resource?r=antarctic_plant_database