Description
The area in total is 175 hectares (ca 430 acres), of which most constitutes a nature reserve including the arboretum. The garden proper is about 40 hectares and here grow some 16,000 different species and cultivars. There are many different parts of the garden such as the Rhododendron Valley, the Japanese Glade and the Rockgarden. In the Greenhouses you will find about 4,000 various species and cultivars, including some 1,500 orchids, a remarkable travertine department and the rare Eastern Island Tree. The garden is involved in conservation projects of threatened species in western Sweden.
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 23,904 records.
3 extension data tables also exist. An extension record supplies extra information about a core record. The number of records in each extension data table is illustrated below.
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:
Havström M, Krüger Å (2024). Living Collection of the Gothenburg Botanical Garden. Version 1.8. Göteborgs Botaniska Trädgård. Occurrence dataset. GBG
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is Gothenburg Botanical Garden. To the extent possible under law, the publisher has waived all rights to these data and has dedicated them to the Public Domain (CC0 1.0). Users may copy, modify, distribute and use the work, including for commercial purposes, without restriction.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: ea05dcbd-0d05-4785-9313-0ec68cb90426. Gothenburg Botanical Garden publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF Sweden.
Keywords
Occurrence; botany; Living specimen; vascular plants; Occurrence
Contacts
- Curator ●
- Originator ●
- Point Of Contact
- Head of research and collections
- Metadata Provider ●
- Point Of Contact
- Scientific curator
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4790-2672
- Point Of Contact
- Director
- Carl Skottsbergs gata 22 a
Geographic Coverage
The collection has a broad geographical range.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
The collection includes vascular plants.
| Phylum | Tracheophytes (Vascular plants) |
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Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 1900-01-01 / 2024-01-11 |
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Project Data
Gothenburg Botanical Garden. Collection of living specimens, vascular plants.
| Title | Gothenburg Botanical Garden |
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| Identifier | GBG |
| Funding | Västra Götaland regional council (the public government sector) |
The personnel involved in the project:
- Curator
Sampling Methods
Seed exchange, field collecting of living material among others.
| Study Extent | Living collection of vascular plants from a wide geographical range. |
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| Quality Control | Curation |
Method step description:
- Not appicable
Collection Data
| Collection Name | Gothenburg Botanical Garden |
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| Collection Identifier | GBG |
| Parent Collection Identifier | Not applicable |
| Specimen preservation methods | Other |
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| Curatorial Units | Between 25,000 and 35,000 living plant specimens |
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Additional Metadata
| Purpose | Research, horticulture, conservation, education |
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| Maintenance Description | Curation |
| Alternative Identifiers | ea05dcbd-0d05-4785-9313-0ec68cb90426 |
| https://www.gbif.se/ipt/resource?r=gothenburg-botanic-garden |