Description
The UAM Insect collection is the northern-most facility of its kind in the United States. 98.5% of our records are from Alaska. Although a young collection (begun in 2000), we have recently surpassed 200,000 records representing over 1 million specimens (as of June 2014), making this collection the fourth largest in the US in entomology with data served to iDigBio. Over 99% of these records have been georeferenced. Over 75% of the pinned collection has been databased; approximately 10% of the wet collection has been databased. At least one specimen of every lowest identification, in both the pinned and wet collections, has been databased so we have a complete online taxon inventory of the collection. 136,257 specimens have been identified to the species level - these represent 2,869 species (23% are apparent new records for the state). Coleoptera, Odonata, and Hymenoptera are the most well-curated groups. 56,187 of these specimen records have been cited or otherwise used in 38 peer-reviewed publications. Please use this DOI to cite this collection / dataset: http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7299/X75D8S0H
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 408,782 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.
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.
Versions
The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.
How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
University of Alaska Museum Insect Collection (UAM), University of Alaska Fairbanks
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is University of Alaska Museum of the North. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 8044ee43-c5fe-44da-ad96-cc1a9cfb91ba. University of Alaska Museum of the North publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by U.S. Geological Survey.
Keywords
Occurrence; Specimen; Occurrence
Contacts
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- Point Of Contact
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Geographic Coverage
North America, Europe, Asia, West Indies, Central America
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
Insecta, Arachnida, Myriapoda, Chelicerata, Entognatha, Chilopoda, Clitellata, Malacostraca, Gastropoda, Diplopoda, Maxillopoda, Branchiopoda, Crustacea, Bivalvia
| Class | Insecta |
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Temporal Coverage
| Living Time Period | 1883 to present |
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Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | 8044ee43-c5fe-44da-ad96-cc1a9cfb91ba |
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