Living Prairie Museum Manitoba Herbarium (LPMMBH)
Citation
Choi K (2020). Living Prairie Museum Manitoba Herbarium (LPMMBH). Version 2.4. Living Prairie Museum. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.5886/rocthg accessed via GBIF.org on 2024-12-09.Description
The Living Prairie Museum Herbarium is located within the Living Prairie Museum Interpretative Centre (LPM) located in the City of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Founded in 1967, the LPM Herbarium contains over 250 vascular plant specimens, with a focus on plants found in native tall grass prairie habitat. Many of the specimens were collected during surveys by the International Biological Program, which lead to the protection of the 12 hectare (30 acre) remnant tall grass prairie site that would become LPM. The establishment and registration of our digitized herbarium is an important step towards sharing the diversity of tall grass prairie species with the international community. This dataset represents the digitized vascular plant specimens collected mostly within the city of Winnipeg.Sampling Description
Study Extent
Digitization of vascular plant specimens from the Herbarium of the Living Prairie Museum.Sampling
Data is manually digitized as text from specimen labels. Specimens are taken after georeference data, habitat data, and date is recorded. Specimens are given a tentative identification in field and a more rigorous identification at the herbarium using Scoggan's 1957 Flora of Manitoba and the online Flora of North America. Scientific names and authors are verified using ITIS (Integrated Taxonomic Information System.Quality Control
Data from old specimens were formatted to fit the new database structure (Darwin Core). Inconsistencies were corrected systematically for determinations and geography data. New, unique accession numbers were assigned to old specimens and inaccurate georeferenced data were corrected. New specimens are numbered and data on each specimen is recorded with correlating accession numbers. Specimens are validated before databasing to ensure identification accuracy.Method steps
- Examine specimen and annotation labels. Verify and update determination if qualified. Search specimen record in collection database and update where necessary, or create new record and populate fields with the information on the specimen label. Assign a unique accession number to the specimen.
- Record specimen data in a related table. Verify locality provided on specimen labels with online databases to ensure quality of geographic data. Georeferences provided on labels are validated using online maps (Google Maps) and corrected at need, with the addition of a measure of inaccuracy.
Taxonomic Coverages
This dataset includes all digitized vascular plants in the collection. The top three families are Asteraceae (21%), Fabaceae (13%), and Poaceae (13%).
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Plantaecommon name: Plants rank: kingdom
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Viridiplantaerank: subkingdom
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Embryophytarank: superphylum
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Teacheophytacommon name: Vascular Plants rank: phylum
Geographic Coverages
Most specimens were found within the city of Winnipeg.
Bibliographic Citations
Contacts
Kaman Choioriginator
position: Herbarium Assistant
Living Prairie Museum
2795 Ness Ave.
Winnipeg
R3J 3S4
Manitoba
CA
Telephone: 204-832-0167
email: KChoi@winnipeg.ca
homepage: http://www.winnipeg.ca/PublicWorks/parksOpenSpace/LivingPrairie/default.asp
Kaman Choi
metadata author
position: Herbarium Assistant
Living Prairie Museum
2795 Ness Ave.
Winnipeg
R3J 3S4
Manitoba
CA
Telephone: 204-832-0167
email: KChoi@winnipeg.ca
homepage: http://www.winnipeg.ca/PublicWorks/parksOpenSpace/LivingPrairie/default.asp
Sarah Semmler
user
position: Director
Living Prairie Museum
2795 Ness Ave.
Winnipeg
R3J 3S4
Manitoba
CA
Telephone: 204-832-0167
email: SSemmler@winnipeg.ca
homepage: http://www.winnipeg.ca/PublicWorks/parksOpenSpace/LivingPrairie/default.asp
Sarah Semmler
administrative point of contact
position: Director
Living Prairie Museum
2795 Ness Ave.
Winnipeg
R3J 3S4
Manitoba
CA
Telephone: 204-832-0167
email: SSemmler@winnipeg.ca
homepage: http://www.winnipeg.ca/PublicWorks/parksOpenSpace/LivingPrairie/default.asp