Kenai National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska (KNWR) Insect specimens (Arctos)

Occurrence
Latest version published by Kenai National Wildlife Refuge on Nov 23, 2024 Kenai National Wildlife Refuge

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Description

The Kenai National Wildlife Refuge's entomology collection includes over 8,000 terrestrial arthropod specimens, mostly from the Kenai Peninsula.

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 8,968 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)
8968
Multimedia 
360

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

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How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Kenai National Wildlife Refuge Insect Specimens (Arctos)

Rights

Researchers should respect the following rights statement:

The publisher and rights holder of this work is Kenai National Wildlife Refuge. To the extent possible under law, the publisher has waived all rights to these data and has dedicated them to the Public Domain (CC0 1.0). Users may copy, modify, distribute and use the work, including for commercial purposes, without restriction.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: cb0eb5bf-4759-4aa1-92b5-4143b0a64e15.  Kenai National Wildlife Refuge publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF-US.

Keywords

Occurrence; Specimen; Specimen; Occurrence

Contacts

Matthew Bowser
  • Metadata Provider
  • Originator
  • Point Of Contact
  • Entomologist
Kenai National Wildlife Refuge
  • P.O. Box 2139
99669 Soldotna
Alaska
US
  • 9072627021
David Bloom
  • Programmer
  • VertNet Coordinator
John Wieczorek
  • Programmer
  • Information Architect

Geographic Coverage

Biodiversity on the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge and surrounding Kenai Peninsula.

Bounding Coordinates South West [59.097, -152.073], North East [61.08, -147.854]

Taxonomic Coverage

No Description available

Phylum Arthropoda

Additional Metadata

http://vertnet.org/resources/norms.html

Alternative Identifiers cb0eb5bf-4759-4aa1-92b5-4143b0a64e15
https://ipt.vertnet.org/resource?r=knwr_ento