OCCURRENCE

G. S. Torrey Herbarium at the University of Connecticut (CONN)

Latest version published by University of Connecticut on 17 December 2019 University of Connecticut
The George Safford Torrey Herbarium (CONN) is one division within the Biodiversity Research Collections of the Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at the University of Connecticut. Founded in 1897 by Henry Arthur Ballou as the Herbarium of Storrs Agricultural College, the herbarium currently houses approximately 200,000 vascular plant specimens, as well as collections of bryophytes, lichens, and fossils. Notable collectors represented include L.J. Mehrhoff, E.H. Eames, K.P. Jansson, and G.S. Torrey.
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Data Records

The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 189,690 records.

1 extension data tables also exist. An extension record supplies extra information about a core record. The number of records in each extension data table is illustrated below.

  • Occurrence (core)
    189690
  • Multimedia 
    176072

This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.

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Versions

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How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

George Safford Torrey Herbarium (CONN), University of Connecticut

Rights

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The publisher and rights holder of this work is University of Connecticut. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 License.

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Keywords

Occurrence; Specimen

Contacts

Who created the resource:

Sarah Taylor
Herbarium Collections Manager
University of Connecticut
75 N. Eagleville Road
06269-3043 Storrs
CT
US
860-486-1889
http://bgbaseserver.eeb.uconn.edu/

Who can answer questions about the resource:

Sarah Taylor
Herbarium Collections Manager
University of Connecticut
75 N. Eagleville Road
06269-3043 Storrs
CT
US
860-486-1889
http://bgbaseserver.eeb.uconn.edu/

Who filled in the metadata:

Sarah Taylor
Herbarium Collections Manager
University of Connecticut
75 N. Eagleville Road
06269-3043 Storrs
CT
US
860-486-1889
http://bgbaseserver.eeb.uconn.edu/

Geographic Coverage

Coverage of the herbarium is global, although the majority of the specimens are from the United States, with a heavy emphasis on Connecticut and New England.

Bounding Coordinates South West [-85, -180], North East [85, 180]

Temporal Coverage

Formation Period 1818-current

Sampling Methods

Database records are based entirely on plant specimens on deposit at CONN.

Study Extent N/A

Method step description:

  1. N/A

Collection Data

Collection Name George Safford Torrey Herbarium (CONN) vascular plants
Collection Identifier CONN
Parent Collection Identifier UConn
Specimen preservation methods Dried and pressed

Additional Metadata

Alternative Identifiers 5288946d-5fcf-4b53-8fd3-74f4cc6b53fc
http://ipt.vertnet.org:8080/ipt/resource?r=conn