Description
The T.B. Lee herbarium of Seoul National University(SNUA) houses 80,000 vascular plants specimens, most of which were collected within south Korea. Our earliest specimens were collected in the 1960’s by T.B. Lee and during the first part of the 21st century by several researchers. A recent focus of our collections is on the flora of woody plants in south Korea. The T.B. Lee Herbarium has used our own budget for the recording of collections using the BRAHMS database program. All records will be published at the GBIF website. The number of georeferenced specimens is constantly growing. Collector’s name and collection date were added for 40% specimens in December 2018. 15,000 occurrences were georeferenced by the support of BIFA project ‘Data mining of historical herbarium specimens from the Korean peninsula’. Currently, T.B. Lee Herbarium is the only Korean biodiversity database with standardized names, gazetteers and georeference in the Korean peninsula. It is the primary source for the “Distribution Atlas of the Korean peninsula Flora” and “Checklist of the Korea Flora” to be outworked in the Seoul National University in due time.
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 18,106 records.
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:
Kim H (2019): T.B. Lee Herbarium Vascular Plant Collection. v1.21. TB Lee Herbarium. Dataset/Occurrence. https://kbif.naris.go.kr/ipt/resource?r=tblee_herbarium&v=1.21
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
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: 266726e3-9f9b-44ed-86f2-d590f6c9626e. TB Lee Herbarium publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Korean Biodiversity Information Facility.
Keywords
Occurrence; Specimen
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Geographic Coverage
Korea is located on the Korean Peninsula in North-East Asia. To the northwest, the Amnok River (Yalu River) separates Korea from China and to the northeast, the Duman River (Tumen River) separates Korea from China and Russia. The Yellow Sea is to the west, the East China Sea and Korea Strait is to the south, and the East Sea is to the east. Notable islands include Jeju Island (Jejudo), Ulleung Island (Ulleungdo), and Dok-do.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [32, 123], North East [44, 133] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
A large majority of our specimens are of native or naturalized vascular plant taxa in south Korea. Among vascular plants we have good collections of local flora including angiosperm, fern (and allies) taxa and extensive collections of woody plants.
Project Data
Institutions outside of the Korean peninsula hold much of the historical, legacy biodiversity information on the region. With nearly 140,000 specimens including the data on specimens stored at foreign herbaria, there is a comprehensive chronological, historical, taxonomic, and geographic coverage of Korean plants including those from inaccessible areas, such as North Korea. Despite an abundance of biodiversity information in collections, there is a pressing need to make this data accessible and integrated sufficiently to foster query-based inquiries to assist with regional conservation priorities. This project will thus mobilize existing biodiversity information and knowledge within the Korean Peninsula using the BRAHMS database. Using the advantages of BRAHMS, the project will be able to query foreign herbaria historical records, generate specimen georeferenced data, and produce photo images about the North and South Korean vascular plants which will published through GBIF.org. Through these goals the project will address the biodiversity information imbalance between South and North Korea and reduce the knowledge gap surrounding the diversity and distribution of vascular plants.
| Title | Data mining of historical herbarium specimens of Vascular plants from the Korean peninsula |
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| Identifier | BIFA3_14 |
| Funding | Funded by Ministry of the Environment, Government of Japan |
| Design Description | As part of the first phase of the project, a dataset of 15,000 SNUA specimens has been compiled. To enable usability, this dataset set will go through the process of validation and data cleaning, including a retrospective georeferencing, until March 2019. Other datasets are under preparation and a selection of photographs are currently presented on the institute´s website. |
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Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | 266726e3-9f9b-44ed-86f2-d590f6c9626e |
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| https://kbif.naris.go.kr/ipt/resource?r=tblee_herbarium |