The Antarctic Plant Database: a specimen and literature based information system
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Summary: Peat, H. J.: The Antarctic Plant Database: a specimen and literature based information system. ‐ Taxon 47: 85–93. 1998. ‐ ISSN 0040‐0262.The British Antarctic Survey's Antarctic Plant Database holds over 50,000 herbarium records for Antarctic and sub‐Antarctic flowering plants and cryptogams held in herbaria world‐wide. In addition, it holds information on species occurrences recorded in the literature for southern polar regions and synonymy indexes for relevant species. The database has been linked to a geographic information system, which can aid record validation and resource management as well as the study of species distributions and biodiversity.Keywords
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