2011 saarela et al. ibc 2011 eposter dna barcodingJeff Saarela
Saarela, JM, LJ Gillespie, LL Consaul, JR Starr, RD Bull, PC Sokoloff. 2011. DNA barcoding the vascular plant flora of the Canadian Arctic. International Botanical Congress 2011, Melbourne, Australia, 17-29 July 2011. [e-poster]
J.M. Saarela, L.J. Gillespie, P.C. Sokoloff and R.D. Bull.
Floristic Discoveries and Biodiversity of the Canadian Arctic Vascular Plant Flora. Presented by J.M. Saarela at Arctic Change 2014, 8-12 December 2014, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
The role of natural history collections data in documenting the biological an...Jeff Saarela
ABSTRACT: Core functions of museums are the collection, long-term preservation, stewardship and curation of specimens, facilitating access to these specimens – physically and digitally – for research purposes, and engaging and educating the public about the world around them. Biological and geological specimens from the Arctic and their associated collection data are a diverse, important and increasingly valuable component of the polar information spectrum. Natural history specimens are data themselves, documenting the distribution of species in time and space; they serve as vouchers for datasets, allowing future workers to go back to original material to confirm or revise identifications; and they are also sources of new data (morphology, anatomy, toxicology, genetic information). The development of international standards (e.g., the Darwin Core) and best practices to facilitate interoperability and sharing of biodiversity occurrence data has allowed
institutions to easily share their collection data on their own websites, and through national, regional and international indexing portals such as the Global Biodiversity
Information Facility (GBIF). This successful example of data management and interoperability could serve as a model for the polar community. The research and public
outreach potential of Arctic collections data is enormous, but a challenge that many natural history museums are facing is the massive task of databasing and imaging the collection so that it may be mobilized, discovered, shared and used. The Canadian Museum of Nature, founding member of the international Arctic Natural History Museums Alliance, houses the largest – and continually growing – collection of natural
history specimens from the Canadian Arctic, with ca. 260K Arctic specimens (including >550 type specimens). Some 154K of our specimens from north of 60 degrees are digitized and freely accessible online (http://collections.nature.ca/en/Search) and shared through GBIF. Natural history museums need to be more involved in Arctic science discussions to raise awareness and increase usage of their rich data resources.
Available from: https://ccin.ca/home/sites/default/files/PDF_II_Program_Abstracts_FINAL.pdf (accessed 4 May 2016).
CC BY-NC 4.0
2011 saarela et al. ibc 2011 eposter dna barcodingJeff Saarela
Saarela, JM, LJ Gillespie, LL Consaul, JR Starr, RD Bull, PC Sokoloff. 2011. DNA barcoding the vascular plant flora of the Canadian Arctic. International Botanical Congress 2011, Melbourne, Australia, 17-29 July 2011. [e-poster]
J.M. Saarela, L.J. Gillespie, P.C. Sokoloff and R.D. Bull.
Floristic Discoveries and Biodiversity of the Canadian Arctic Vascular Plant Flora. Presented by J.M. Saarela at Arctic Change 2014, 8-12 December 2014, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
The role of natural history collections data in documenting the biological an...Jeff Saarela
ABSTRACT: Core functions of museums are the collection, long-term preservation, stewardship and curation of specimens, facilitating access to these specimens – physically and digitally – for research purposes, and engaging and educating the public about the world around them. Biological and geological specimens from the Arctic and their associated collection data are a diverse, important and increasingly valuable component of the polar information spectrum. Natural history specimens are data themselves, documenting the distribution of species in time and space; they serve as vouchers for datasets, allowing future workers to go back to original material to confirm or revise identifications; and they are also sources of new data (morphology, anatomy, toxicology, genetic information). The development of international standards (e.g., the Darwin Core) and best practices to facilitate interoperability and sharing of biodiversity occurrence data has allowed
institutions to easily share their collection data on their own websites, and through national, regional and international indexing portals such as the Global Biodiversity
Information Facility (GBIF). This successful example of data management and interoperability could serve as a model for the polar community. The research and public
outreach potential of Arctic collections data is enormous, but a challenge that many natural history museums are facing is the massive task of databasing and imaging the collection so that it may be mobilized, discovered, shared and used. The Canadian Museum of Nature, founding member of the international Arctic Natural History Museums Alliance, houses the largest – and continually growing – collection of natural
history specimens from the Canadian Arctic, with ca. 260K Arctic specimens (including >550 type specimens). Some 154K of our specimens from north of 60 degrees are digitized and freely accessible online (http://collections.nature.ca/en/Search) and shared through GBIF. Natural history museums need to be more involved in Arctic science discussions to raise awareness and increase usage of their rich data resources.
Available from: https://ccin.ca/home/sites/default/files/PDF_II_Program_Abstracts_FINAL.pdf (accessed 4 May 2016).
CC BY-NC 4.0
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Spruce to Shore: Subarctic and low arctic vascular plant biodiversity of the ...Jeff Saarela
Saarela, J.M., P.C. Sokoloff and R.D. Bull
--Botany Section & Centre for Arctic Knowledge and Exploration, Research & Collections, Canadian Museum
of Nature, Ottawa, Ontario K1P 6P4
Oral presentation delivered at ArcticNet Annual Science Meeting 2015, Vancouver, December 2015. Presentation abstract book: pg. 107. Available from: http://www.arcticnetmeetings.ca/asm2015/docs/topical-abstracts.pdf (accessed 4 May 2016).
ABSTRACT: Exploration of the vascular plant flora of the Canadian Arctic has been ongoing for almost two hundred years, yet substantial gaps remain in our floristic understanding of this large, rapidly changing and difficult-to-access ecozone. Detailed baseline information on thediversity and distribution of Arctic plants is urgently needed to understand the potential impacts of climate change on the region’s flora. In July 2014 we explored the rich flora along a Subarctic to Arctic gradient along the Coppermine River valley in western Nunavut, including Bloody Falls/Kugluk Territorial Park and Kugluktuk and vicinity. In this botanically underexplored area the treeline reaches its northern limit in Nunavut, just 40 km south of the Arctic coast. Study of our >1000 new and all previous collections of vascular plants document some 304 species in the area, comprising a mixture of boreal taxa (most at their northern limit), Arctic taxa (some at their southern limit), and amphi-Beringian taxa (some at their eastern limit). Among our collections are many first records for Nunavut (Allium schoenoprasum, Botrychium tunux, Draba lonchocarpa, Eleocharis quinqueflora, Eremogone capillaris subsp. capillaris, Festuca altaica, Polygonum aviculare, Salix ovalifolia var. arctolitoralis, S. ovalifolia var. ovalifolia, Stuckenia pectinata), mainland Nunavut (Carex gynocrates, C. livida, Cryptogramma stelleri, Juncus alpinoarticulatus subsp. americanus, Salix pseudomyrsinites), numerous northern and southern range extensions for boreal and Arctic species (Anthoxanthum arcticum, Arctostaphylos uva-ursi, Betula occidentalis, Carex adelostoma, C. capitata, C. lachenallii, C. norvegica, C. petricosa subsp. petricosa, Castilleja raupii, Draba simmonsii, Epilobium arcticum, E. davuricum, Festuca viviparoidea subsp. viviparoidea, Hordeum jubatum subsp. intermedium, Juniperus communis subsp. depressa, Linnaea borealis subsp. americana, Potamogeton gramineus, Rubus arcticus subsp. acaulis, Sagina nodosa subsp. borealis, Stellaria borealis subsp. borealis, Shepherdia canadensis, Taraxacum phymatocarpum, Utricularia intermedia, U. vulgaris) and many first records for the study area, which fill in gaps in the known distributions of Arctic species. Several species in the area reach their known northern limits in Nunavut in Kugluk/Bloody Falls Territorial Park, a protected site. The many floristic novelties identified for the study area underscore the fact that there remains much to learn about vascular plant biodiversity in Canada's low Arctic.