Field Museum of Natural History (Botany) Bryophyte Collection

Sharon Grant1, Matt von Konrat1

1 Field Museum of Natural History, 1400 S Lake Shore Drive, 60605, Chicago, United States

Corresponding author(s): Sharon Grant (sgrant@fieldmuseum.org), Matt von Konrat (mvonkonrat@fieldmuseum.org)

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Abstract

The bryophyte collection at The Field Museum is a major resource for bryophyte systematics, particularly for Central and South American, temperate Australasian, North American and European taxa. The collection consists of more than 200,000 specimens, including 127,614 moss and 51,508 hepatic specimens with a total of 2,284 types.

Keywords: Occurrence, Specimen

General description

Additional information: https://www.fieldmuseum.org/field-museum-natural-history-conditions-and-suggested-norms-use-collections-data-and-images

Data published through GBIF: https://fmipt.fieldmuseum.org/ipt/resource?r=fmnh_bryophyte

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: Global
Coordinates: 90°0'0''S and 90°0'0''N Latitude; 180°0'0''W and 180°0'0''E Longitude 

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive Field Museum of Natural History (Botany) Bryophyte Collection
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Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: https://fmipt.fieldmuseum.org/ipt/archive.do?r=fmnh_bryophyte
Publication date of data: 2020-04-09
Language: English
Licences of use: Public Domain (CC0 1.0)

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2012-07-09
Hierarchy level: Dataset