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Plants II - Transcribing the National Herbarium of Canada's Arctic Collection
Learn morePlants II is presented in two workflows: Locality and habitat descriptions, and Co-ordinate and elevation data. Choose your expedition!
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Herbarium collections like the National Herbarium of Canada result from hundreds of thousands of projects, and can fuel MANY more … if we can make this mountain of information available to everyone who can put it to good use. Your transcriptions make a huge difference and it’s fun! Type '70 52 40 N, 109 45 20 W' or 'Mackenzie Delta', and feel terrific about yourself for the rest of the day!
Notes from Nature - Expedition Arctic BotanyAbout Notes from Nature - Expedition Arctic Botany
The National Herbarium of Canada, at the Canadian Museum of Nature, houses a growing collection of 1.25 million specimens of wild bryophytes, lichens, vascular plants and algae collected between 1766 and the present day. The Arctic portion (from Yukon, Northwest Territories and Nunavut and the northern parts of the provinces too!) of the collection represents well over 100 000 specimens.
Expedition Arctic Botany: Plants II continues work on our vascular plant collection. Through this collaboration between the National Herbarium of Canada and citizen scientists like you, we aim to broaden the knowledge of arctic plant diversity by making valuable specimen label data - collection location, environment and co-ordinate data - available electronically. By doing this, the information in our cabinets becomes accessible and searchable by anyone, anywhere in the world!