Description
The Xylarium of Tervuren (Tw) : the collection of wood includes 56,000 specimens of 13,600 different botanical species from around the world. It is therefore the second largest collection in the world and the largest in Europe. It contains wood from all growing plant forms which produce secondary xylem. Lignified plant tissues are omnipresent in the terrestrial living nature. Also a big part of the material culture consists of wooden objects. Because of the multifunctional character of wood, the Tervuren Xylarium should in principle serve the different disciplines interested in wood research: technology, ecology, palaeontology, art history, archaeology, etc. Since the Tervuren Xylarium is the only governmental wood collection in Belgium there is no geographical limitation: it has a worldwide concern. Because of the scientific nature of the collection, the validation of it depends largely on derivative collections like thin sections for microscopy and microphotographs. Moreover there are collections of stem discs that make dendrochronological research possible.
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 10,189 records.
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Rights
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The publisher and rights holder of this work is Belgian Biodiversity Platform. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: b0cb000d-9381-4881-98d9-1594acf59c89. Belgian Biodiversity Platform publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Belgian Biodiversity Platform.
Keywords
Occurrence; Occurrence
Contacts
- Originator
- Curator
- Leuvensesteenweg 13
- +32 2 769 57 59
- User
- IT Specialist
- ULB Campus de la Plaine - Boulevard du triomphe
- Point Of Contact
- Curator
- Leuvensesteenweg 13
- +32 2 769 56 11
- User
Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | 826992ce-4480-11e2-ad4c-00145eb45e9a |
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| b0cb000d-9381-4881-98d9-1594acf59c89 | |
| https://ipt.biodiversity.be/resource?r=xylarium |