NERC Data Catalogue Service
Antarctic Plant Database (database of the BAS Herbarium)
This database contains information on the herbarium specimens held in the herbarium of the British Antarctic Survey (international code AAS) as well as information about specimens collected in the Antarctic and sub-Antarctic and held in other world herbaria. There are over 70 000 records, predominantly of mosses and lichens, but also of vascular plants, ferns, fungi and algae collected in Antarctic and sub-Antarctic regions as well as some from surrounding continents, particularly South America. The collection from South Georgia And The South Sandwich Islands started in 1775 and from Antarctica in 1834. Documents relating to the Herbarium are kept in the BAS Archives (LS2/4).
The records can be searched and downloaded on: http://apex.nerc-bas.ac.uk/f?p=148:1. There is also a facility to see a distribution map of specimens retrieved by querying the database.
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- Date (Creation)
- 2004-10-21
- Date (Revision)
- 2004-10-21
- Date (Publication)
- 2004-10-21
- Date (released)
- 2004-10-21
- Edition
- 1
- Unique resource identifier
- 3d4ffe18-fbab-4a5a-bbf7-651945468537
- Codespace
- uuid
- Unique resource identifier
- GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/00023
- Codespace
- https://data.bas.ac.uk/
- Other citation details
- Please cite this item as: None
- Credit
- No credit.
- Status
- completed Completed
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- Maintenance and update frequency
- asNeeded As needed
- Maintenance note
- completed Completed
- Theme
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- Species distribution
- biogeography
- fungus
- herbarium
- lichen
- liverwort
- moss
- taxonomy
- vascular plants
- Place
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- Argentina
- Bouvet Island
- South Georgia Island
- Chile
- Falkland Islands
- Gough Island
- Macquarie Island
- South Orkney Islands
- South Shetland Islands
- South America
- Crozet
- Kerguelen Island
- Antarctica
- South Sandwich Islands
- Marion Island
- Heard Island
- McDonald Islands
- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
- Access constraints
- otherRestrictions Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- no limitations to public access
- Access constraints
- otherRestrictions Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- no limitations
- Use constraints
- license License
- Other constraints
- Open Government Licence v3.0
- Unique resource identifier
- url
- Codespace
- url
- Association Type
- crossReference Cross reference
- Unique resource identifier
- url
- Codespace
- url
- Association Type
- crossReference Cross reference
- Spatial representation type
- textTable Text, table
- Metadata language
- engEnglish
- Character set
- utf8 UTF8
- Topic category
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- Biota
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- Begin date
- 1775-01-01
- End date
- 1775-01-01
- Supplemental Information
- It is recommended that careful attention be paid to the contents of any data, and that the author be contacted with any questions regarding appropriate use. If you find any errors or omissions, please report them to polardatacentre@bas.ac.uk.
Distributor
https://www.bas.ac.uk/team/business-teams/information-services/uk-polar-data-centre/
- Units of distribution
- bytes
- Transfer size
- 1
- OnLine resource
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- Transfer size
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- OnLine resource
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- Hierarchy level
- dataset Dataset
- Statement
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Methodology:
Botanical specimens have been collected since pre-BAS time. Specimens have been stored in a herbarium which has been housed in several locations since the 1950s (British Museum, Birmingham University, Queen Mary's College, London).
In 1970 the first computerised system for listing the specimens became operational. In the 1970s the herbarium and database formed part of the NERC Bryophyte Centre as part of the Institute for Terrestrial Ecology. The centre was originally based at Birmingham University and then moved to the Bush Research Station of ITE, an Edinburgh University site near Penicuik, Midlothian. In 1983 it was no longer possible to get computer support for the system used for the database. A new database was made using STATUS software on the IBM computer at the Institute of Hydrology at Wallingford. The database was named the Antartic Plant Database.
In 1988 the herbarium and database returned to BAS.
The database is now an Oracle database and is maintained in the Polar Data Centre.
Data quality:
Validated
Data having undergone some initial despiking or cleaning. Database records are generally accurate, some species identifications may not be correct and some are incomplete.
- File identifier
- 3d4ffe18-fbab-4a5a-bbf7-651945468537 XML
- Metadata language
- engEnglish
- Character set
- utf8 UTF8
- Hierarchy level
- dataset Dataset
- Hierarchy level name
- dataset
- Date stamp
- 2004-10-21
- Metadata standard name
- ISO 19115 Geographic Information - Metadata
- Metadata standard version
- ISO 19115:2003(E)
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