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National Herbarium van Suriname Collection

Dataset homepage

Citation

Kalpoe W, Zschuschen E (2022). National Herbarium van Suriname Collection. Version 1.16. The National Herbarium of Suriname (BBS). Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/vhkjc4 accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-03-28.

Description

National Herbarium of Suriname Collection consist of plant specimen collected in Suriname and the region since the 19th century.

Purpose

Create a knowledge and information platform where data will be mobilized and integrated to promote environmental planning and policy-making nationally

Sampling Description

Study Extent

Plant collection data of Angiospermae, Bryophyta, Pteridophyta, Fungi

Sampling

Photographed the voucher data Digitization of herbarium vouchers

Quality Control

Darwin Core Standard Data cleaning with Open Refine

Method steps

  1. Photographed the herbarium voucher Enter data from voucher labels into Excel spreadsheets Quality control Data hosting and publishing

Taxonomic Coverages

Angiospermae, Bryophyta, Pteridophyta, Fungi
  1. Plantae
    common name: Plants rank: kingdom

Geographic Coverages

Suriname

Bibliographic Citations

Contacts

Weerin Kalpoe
originator
position: Datamanager
National Herbarium of Suriname
Leysweg 86
Paramaribo
0000
Paramaribo
SR
Telephone: 597-464151
email: weerin.kalpoe@uvs.edu
homepage: https://www.uvs.edu/adekus/instituten/national-herbarium-of-suriname-bbs/
userId: http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=herb
Eliza Zschuschen
metadata author
position: Head
National Herbarium of Suriname
Leysweg 86
Paramaribo
0000
Paramaribo
SR
Telephone: 597-464151
email: bbs@uvs.edu
homepage: https://www.uvs.edu/adekus/instituten/national-herbarium-of-suriname-bbs/
userId: http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=herb
Eliza Zschuschen
administrative point of contact
position: Head
National Herbarium of Suriname
Leysweg 86
Paramaribo
0000
Paramaribo
SR
Telephone: 597-464151
email: bbs@uvs.edu
homepage: https://www.uvs.edu/adekus/instituten/national-herbarium-of-suriname-bbs/
userId: http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=herb
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