The Antarctic Plant Database: a specimen and literature based information system

Peat, Helen J.

The Antarctic Plant Database: a specimen and literature based information system

Peat, Helen J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2017-8597. 1998 The Antarctic Plant Database: a specimen and literature based information system. Taxon, 47. 85-93.

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Abstract/Summary

The British Antarctic Survey's Antarctic Plant Database holds over 50,000 herbarium records for Antarctic and sub-Antarctic flowering plants and cryptogams held in herbaria world-wide. In addition, it holds information on species occurrences recorded in the literature for southern polar regions and synonymy indexes for relevant species. The database has been linked to a geographic information system, which can aid record validation and resource management as well as the study of species distributions and biodiversity.

Item Type:

Publication - Article

Programmes:

BAS Programmes > Pre 2000 programme

ISSN:

00400262

Date made live:

11 Dec 2013 11:35 +0 (UTC)

URI:

https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/504229