Appendix 1: Nationally Significant Collections, Databases & Information Systems
Allan Herbarium (CHR)
- New Zealand’s national herbarium with >600,000 specimens of New Zealand and South Pacific algae, lichens, liverworts, mosses, ferns, and seed plants collected in New Zealand. The oldest samples collected during Captain Cook's first voyage to NewZealand, 1769–1770.
- Online access via the New Zealand Virtual Herbarium, a searchable, downloadable information system.
- A key part of New Zealand’s biodiversity and biosecurity systems, of benefit to both conservation and productive sectors.
- http://scd.landcareresearch.co.nz
- www.landcareresearch.co.nz/allanherbarium
- http://nzflora.landcareresearch.co.nz
- www.landcareresearch.co.nz/floras_guides
- www.nzherbaria.org.nz
International Collection of Micro-Organisms from Plants (ICMP)
- Living cultures of more than 18,000 strains of bacteria and fungi from plants and soil.
- All information fully searchable on-line.
- One of three major international collections for plant and soil bacteria.
- A key part of New Zealand’s biosecurity system for the forestry, conservation, horticultural and agricultural sectors.
- www.landcareresearch.co.nz/resources/collections/icmp
- http://scd.landcareresearch.co.nz
Land Resource Information System (LRIS), including New Zealand Land Resource Inventory (NZLRI)
- National database depicts general land characteristics (rock, soil, slope, erosion, and vegetation), a derivative general-purpose land evaluation (land use capability), and a range of environmental, climatic, management and production attributes.
- www.landcareresearch.co.nz/resources/data/lris
- https://lris.scinfo.org.nz
National New Zealand Flax Collection
- Living collection at Lincoln of over 160 provenances of Phormium species of cultural, economic and historical interest. It supports research on both traditional and new uses of Phormium.
- http://scd.landcareresearch.co.nz
- www.landcareresearch.co.nz/harakeke
National Soils Database (NSD)
- Physical collection of thousands of soil profiles from 1,700 different locations throughout New Zealand, with site descriptions and chemical, physical, and mineralogical characterisations available online.
- https://viewer-nsdr.landcareresearch.co.nz/search
- https://soils.landcareresearch.co.nz/soil-data/national-soils-data-repository-and-the-national-soils-database
National Vegetation Survey (NVS)
- The national repository for plot-based vegetation (forestry) survey data collected, with over 60 years of data.
- A physical archive and databank of records from >94,000 survey plots including >19,000 permanent plots.
- Broad geographic coverage, from Northland to Stewart Island, the Kermadec and Chatham Islands.
- Survey data can be deposited with NVS for management and is also available by request.
- A key part of New Zealand’s biodiversity & biosecurity information infrastructure.
- http://nvs.landcareresearch.co.nz
New Zealand Arthropod Collection (NZAC)
- The largest collection of New Zealand land invertebrates (insects and related arthropods), with >7 million specimens. Earliest collections date from 1880s. Many specimens from the South Pacific.
- Contains over 1 million pinned specimens, and approximately 6 million stored in ethanol; over 2,500 primary type specimens
- Includes the National Nematode Collection of New Zealand (NNCNZ)
- Online via the New Zealand Land Invertebrates website, a searchable online information system.
- A key part of New Zealand’s biosecurity system for the forestry, conservation, horticultural and agricultural sectors.
- http://nzac.landcareresearch.co.nz
- http://fnz.landcareresearch.co.nz
- http://www.landcareresearch.co.nz/resources/collections/nncnz
- http://nzinverts.landcareresearch.co.nz
- http://scd.landcareresearch.co.nz
New Zealand Fungal & Plant Disease Collection (PDD)
- Primary source of information on New Zealand and Pacific fungi, with all data fully searchable online.
- Contains 100,000 dried fungal specimens, including 2,000 type collections of New Zealand fungi.
- Contains voucher specimens documenting most plant diseases recorded in New Zealand.
- A key part of New Zealand’s biosecurity system for the forestry, conservation, horticultural and agricultural sectors.
- http://scd.landcareresearch.co.nz
- http://nzfungi.landcareresearch.co.nz
- http://virtualmycota.landcareresearch.co.nz
- http://fungalguide.landcareresearch.co.nz
Ngā Tipu Whakaoranga Ethnobotany database
- Online access to >2,050 records on cultural uses of New Zealand native plants, fungi, algae, and Māori names.
- http://maoriplantuse.landcareresearch.co.nz