Description
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.
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.
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:
George Safford Torrey Herbarium (CONN), University of Connecticut
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
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.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 5288946d-5fcf-4b53-8fd3-74f4cc6b53fc. University of Connecticut publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF-US.
Keywords
Occurrence; Specimen
Contacts
- Metadata Provider ●
- Originator ●
- Point Of Contact
- Herbarium Collections Manager
- 75 N. Eagleville Road
- 860-486-1889
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] |
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Temporal Coverage
| Formation Period | 1818-current |
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Sampling Methods
Database records are based entirely on plant specimens on deposit at CONN.
| Study Extent | N/A |
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Method step description:
- N/A
Collection Data
| Collection Name | George Safford Torrey Herbarium (CONN) vascular plants |
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| Collection Identifier | CONN |
| Parent Collection Identifier | UConn |
| Specimen preservation methods | Dried and pressed |
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Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | 5288946d-5fcf-4b53-8fd3-74f4cc6b53fc |
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| http://ipt.vertnet.org:8080/ipt/resource?r=conn |