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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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Alternate title
Polar Data Centre (PDC) record GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/00023
Date (Publication)
2022-03-22
Identifier
http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/dms/metadata.php?id= / GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/00023
Custodian
  British Antarctic Survey
High Cross, Madingley Road , Cambridge , CB3 0ET , UK
+44 (0)1223 221400
Originator
  British Antarctic Survey - Polar Data Centre
High Cross, Madingley , Cambridge , CB3 0ET , UK
+44 (0)1223 221400
Maintenance and update frequency
unknown Unknown
Keywords
  • NDGO0001
NERC OAI Harvesting
  • NERC_DDC
GCMD Parameter Valids
  • EARTH SCIENCE > Biosphere > Plant Taxonomy > Algae
  • EARTH SCIENCE > Biosphere > Plant Taxonomy > Ferns
  • EARTH SCIENCE > Biosphere > Plant Taxonomy > Flowering Plants
  • EARTH SCIENCE > Biosphere > Plant Taxonomy > Lichens
  • EARTH SCIENCE > Biosphere > Plant Taxonomy > Mosses and Liverworts
INSPIRE themes
  • Species distribution
BAS Free-text keywords
  • biogeography
  • fungus
  • herbarium
  • lichen
  • liverwort
  • moss
  • taxonomy
  • vascular plants
Use limitation
This data is released under a UK Open Government Licence V3.0: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3
Access constraints
otherRestrictions Other restrictions
Other constraints
This data is released under a UK Open Government Licence V3.0: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3
Metadata language
EnglishEnglish
Topic category
  • Biota
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Begin date
1775-01-01
End date
unknown
Reference system identifier
OGP / urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326
Distribution format
Distributor
  Polar Data Centre - British Antarctic Survey
+44 (0)1223 221400
OnLine resource
http://apex.nerc-bas.ac.uk/f?p=148:1
Hierarchy level
dataset Dataset

Domain consistency

Measure identification
INSPIRE / Conformity_001

Conformance result

Date
Explanation
See the referenced specification
Pass
No
Statement

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
GB_NERC_BAS_PDC_00023 XML
Metadata language
EnglishEnglish
Hierarchy level
dataset Dataset
Date stamp
2022-03-22
Metadata standard name
NERC profile of ISO19115:2003
Metadata standard version
1.0
Point of contact
  British Antarctic Survey
+44 (0)1223 221400
Dataset URI
http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/dms/metadata.php?id=GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/00023
 
 

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