OAC-BIO Herbarium
Citation
Ragupathy S (2016). OAC-BIO Herbarium. Version 2.1. University of Guelph. Occurrence Dataset https://doi.org/10.5886/66f3rsta accessed via GBIF.org on 2017-08-19.Description
The BIO Herbarium at the University of Guelph houses approximately 100,000 (image data for 65,535) herbarium specimens, collected from all around the world. The collection provides excellent coverage in ethnobotanical notes and houses vouchers for the Flora Ontario Integrated Botanical Information System (FOIBIS). The collection also contains DNA Barcoding vouchers for the Center for Biodiversity Intitute of Ontario (CBG) of the Biodiversity Institute of Ontario. BIO Herbarium is committed to making this important collection more accessible to botanists and others, wherever they may be, for use in their own projects: particularly in biodiversity, conservation, sustainable development and systematics. To this end we have developed HIMS, which contains labelled information and images of all the specimens at the BIO Herbarium.Sampling Description
Study Extent
The Herbarium collection has increased from 85000-128000 specimens in the last three years. Most of these collections are vouchers from current research projects including the Flora Ontario project. Dr Newmaster arranged for the donation of several specialized collections from the Canadian National Museum, Royal Ontario Museum, Royal Botanical Gardens, University of Alberta, University of British Columbia, Canadian Forest Service, Botanical Research Institute of Texas and the Missouri Botanical Gardens. Starting in 2006, the OAC Herbarium will become the repository of all plant vouchers for the Canadian Barcode of Life Consortium, which just received funding from Genome Canada ($630,798 for plants) to barcode plants in Canada. This will include the archival of herbarium vouchers, preserved leaves in silica gel and the extraction of each specimens DNA for cryopreservation.Sampling
Floristic diversity; Weeds of Ontario collection; DNA barcoding collections- collection, identification, preparation of typical herbarium vouchers, accessing in to OAC-BIO herbarium by the respective project investigator.Quality Control
Records are edited on an ad hoc basis.Method steps
- Data are entered into the Herbarium Information System (HIMS) and some records determined by taxonomic experts.
Taxonomic Coverages
This dataset includes Plantae- vascular and non-vascular plant specimens from the OAC-BIO Herbarium, Biodiversity Institute of Ontario, University of Guelph teaching collection that have been digitized, databased (partially).
Major groups are: Lichens, Bryophytes, Pteridophytes, Gymnosperms and Angiosperms.
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Plantaerank: kingdom
Geographic Coverages
The Ontario Agricultural College was instrumental in establishing the OAC Herbarium and hence the collection reflects this history with an impressive collection of weeds (Pre -1800). Most of these collections are vouchers from current research projects including the Flora Ontario project. However, there are smaller collections within the herbarium that arm from research initiatives across the globe.
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Contacts
Subramanyam Ragupathyoriginator
position: Chief Curator
University of Guelph
University of Guelph, 50 Stone Rd
Guelph
N1G2W1
ON
CA
Telephone: (519) 837-7844
email: ragu@uoguelph.ca
Subramanyam Ragupathy
metadata author
position: Chief Curator
University of Guelph
University of Guelph, 50 Stone Rd
Guelph
N1G2W1
ON
CA
Telephone: (519) 837-7844
email: ragu@uoguelph.ca
Subramanyam Ragupathy
administrative point of contact
position: Chief Curator
University of Guelph
University of Guelph, 50 Stone Rd
Guelph
N1G2W1
ON
CA
Telephone: 5198377844
email: ragu@uoguelph.ca
publisher
University of Guelph
Ontario
CA
Newmaster Steven
administrative point of contact
position: Director
OAC-BIO Herbarium, University of Guelph
50 Stone Rd, University of Guelph
Guelph
N1G2W1
ON
CA
Telephone: (519) 824-4120 x56002
email: snewmast@uoguelph.ca
homepage: http://www.uoguelph.ca/ib/people/faculty/newmast.shtml