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Antarctic Plant Database

Dataset homepage

Citation

Peat H, Whitelaw M (2022). Antarctic Plant Database. UK Polar Data Centre. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/6dgnjf accessed via GBIF.org on 2022-05-29.

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.

Taxonomic Coverages

Note: fungi are predominantly lichenised with some non-lichenised specimens
  1. Tracheophyta
    rank: phylum
  2. Bryophyta
    rank: phylum
  3. Marchantiophyta
    rank: phylum
  4. Chlorophyta
    rank: phylum
  5. Cyanobacteria
    rank: phylum
  6. Fungi
    rank: kingdom

Geographic Coverages

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

Bibliographic Citations

Contacts

Helen Peat
originator
position: Head of UK Polar Data Centre
UK Polar Data Centre, British Antarctic Survey
GB
email: hjp@bas.ac.uk
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2017-8597
Mari Whitelaw
metadata author
position: Scientific Data Manager
UK Polar Data Centre, British Antarctic Survey
GB
email: martel@bas.ac.uk
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7555-1550
Mari Whitelaw
administrative point of contact
position: Scientific Data Manager
UK Polar Data Centre, British Antarctic Survey
GB
email: martel@bas.ac.uk
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7555-1550
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