Occurrence dataset Registered April 03, 2007
Antarctic Plant Database
Published by UK Polar Data Centre
Description
The Antarctic Plant Database is a database of the plant collections held in the British Antarctic Survey's herbarium (international code AAS). This contains over 50,000 plant specimens from Antarctica, the sub-Antarctic Islands and surrounding continents (especially Fuegia and Patagonia). Over 2000 species are represented, comprising predominantly mosses, liverworts and lichens with smaller collections of vascular plants, macro-algae and macro-fungi.
Geographic scope
- Description
Antarctica, the sub-Antarctic Islands and surrounding continents (especially Fuegia and Patagonia) and Arctic
- Bounding box
- Latitude
- From -90 to 90
- Longitude
- From -180 to 180
Temporal scope
- range
- November 13, 1885 - January 20, 2018
Taxonomic scope
- Description
Note: fungi are predominantly lichenised with some non-lichenised specimens
- Coverage
- TracheophytaBryophytaMarchantiophytaChlorophytaCyanobacteria
Fungi
Metrics
Contacts
- Organization
- UK Polar Data Centre, British Antarctic Survey
- Position
- Head of UK Polar Data Centre
- Roles
- Originator
- User ID
- Organization
- UK Polar Data Centre, British Antarctic Survey
- Position
- Scientific Data Manager
- Roles
- Metadata author
Administrative point of contact - User ID
GBIF registration
- Registration date
- April 03, 2007
- Metadata last modified
- May 24, 2022
- Publication date
- May 24, 2022
- Hosted by
- UK Polar Data Centre
- Installation
- UKPDC IPT
- Endpoints
- Darwin Core Archive
- EML
- Hosting status
- Rescued orphan dataset
- Preferred identifier
- 10.15468/6dgnjf
- Alternative identifiers
Citation
Peat H, Whitelaw M (2022). Antarctic Plant Database. UK Polar Data Centre. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/6dgnjf accessed via GBIF.org on 2025-08-21.