TY - JOUR
T1 - Herbarium collection of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso (PUCV), Chile
AU - Cordero, Sebastián
AU - López-Aliste, Manuel
AU - Gálvez, Francisca
AU - Fontúrbel, Francisco E.
N1 - Funding Information:
We are deeply grateful to the founders and former curators of the PUCV Herbarium, especially Prof. Otto Zöllner, for his remarkable dedication to collecting and identifying more than half of the specimens deposited in the Herbarium. We also thank Professor Lorena Flores for continuing Professor Zöllner's legacy, as well as the students who contributed to its digitisation. Additionally, to Leisy Amaya from the Chilean Ministry of Environment. S.C was supported by a Ph.D. scholarship granted by the Chilean Agency of Research and Development (ANID, 21211752). F.G was supported by a Ph.D. scholarship granted by the Chilean Agency of Research and Development (ANID, 21221244). We also thank three community reviewers for their valuable suggestions that helped improve the original version.
Publisher Copyright:
© Cordero S et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - Background This database gathers 10,721 specimens, belonging to 2,578 species from the Chilean vascular flora (angiosperms, gymnosperms and pteridophytes) deposited in the Herbarium of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso (PUCV) in Chile. The PUCV botanical collection was started by the renowned botanist Otto Zöllner and represents a major natural historical legacy for central Chile, with decades of information represented through preserved specimens. This collection is currently deposited in the Curauma campus of the PUCV. This digitisation effort is part of the PUCV's endeavour to mobilise its biological collections and make them freely available through GBIF, encouraging national and international researchers to generate new knowledge, based on this invaluable heritage, which is a silent witness of the vast plant diversity that once existed in Chile and that is now vanishing due to anthropogenic drivers. New information The database provides occurrence records from 10,721 specimens of vascular flora held in the PUCV Herbarium, representing 2,578 species, 914 genera and 177 families. Each record includes data on taxonomy, geographic distribution, elevation and collection information (e.g. date of collection, legitimavit and determinavit of specimens, general observations). The database serves as a repository containing records from past decades on the diversity and distribution of plant species, mainly from the Chilean Mediterranean biodiversity hotspot.
AB - Background This database gathers 10,721 specimens, belonging to 2,578 species from the Chilean vascular flora (angiosperms, gymnosperms and pteridophytes) deposited in the Herbarium of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso (PUCV) in Chile. The PUCV botanical collection was started by the renowned botanist Otto Zöllner and represents a major natural historical legacy for central Chile, with decades of information represented through preserved specimens. This collection is currently deposited in the Curauma campus of the PUCV. This digitisation effort is part of the PUCV's endeavour to mobilise its biological collections and make them freely available through GBIF, encouraging national and international researchers to generate new knowledge, based on this invaluable heritage, which is a silent witness of the vast plant diversity that once existed in Chile and that is now vanishing due to anthropogenic drivers. New information The database provides occurrence records from 10,721 specimens of vascular flora held in the PUCV Herbarium, representing 2,578 species, 914 genera and 177 families. Each record includes data on taxonomy, geographic distribution, elevation and collection information (e.g. date of collection, legitimavit and determinavit of specimens, general observations). The database serves as a repository containing records from past decades on the diversity and distribution of plant species, mainly from the Chilean Mediterranean biodiversity hotspot.
KW - Biological collections
KW - Chile
KW - Herbarium specimens
KW - Long-term data collections
KW - Museum collections
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U2 - 10.3897/BDJ.10.e90591
DO - 10.3897/BDJ.10.e90591
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85141239730
VL - 10
JO - Biodiversity Data Journal
JF - Biodiversity Data Journal
SN - 1314-2828
M1 - e90591
ER -