Description
The UAA Entomology Collection includes approximately 5,000 specimens with a focus on pollinating and aquatics insects of Alaska. Collections are managed under the Alaska Center for Conservation Science, a research center within the University of Alaska Anchorage. The collection officially joined the Arctos community in 2023. The UAA Entomology collection is the primary repository of vouchers from the Alaska Bee Atlas and aquatic insects originate from stream ecology studies conducted by the Alaska Center for Conservation Science.
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 3,036 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 Anchorage Entomology Collection, Alaska Center for Conservation Science, University of Alaska Anchorage.
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is Alaska Center for Conservation Science. 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: 3658ba15-172d-459c-94ab-d565f6550dad. Alaska Center for Conservation Science publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF-US.
Keywords
Occurrence; Specimen; Occurrence; Specimen
Contacts
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Geographic Coverage
Alaska, USA
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [52, -180], North East [72, -130] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
Pollinating and aquatic insects.
| Class | Insecta (Insects) |
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Temporal Coverage
| Living Time Period | 1990 to present |
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Collection Data
| Collection Name | University of Alaska Anchorage Entomology Collection |
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| Collection Identifier | https://arctos.database.museum/collection/UAA:Ento |
| Parent Collection Identifier | UAA |
| Specimen preservation methods | Pinned |
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Additional Metadata
Arctos Data Ownership and Use: http://arctosdb.org/home/data/; http://vertnet.org/resources/norms.html
| Purpose | The UAA Entomology collection is the primary repository of vouchers from the Alaska Bee Atlas, and aquatic insects originate from stream ecology studies conducted by the Alaska Center for Conservation Science. The specimens are used for research and education. |
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| Alternative Identifiers | 3658ba15-172d-459c-94ab-d565f6550dad |
| https://ipt.vertnet.org/resource?r=uaa_ento |