Minnesota Biological Survey vegetation releves (DNR-MBS)

Plant species occurrence data from 11,126 vegetation plots collected by the Minnesota Biological Survey Minnesota Department of Natural Resources throughout the State of Minnesota between 1986 and 2019.

Contact: Bruce Carlson (Bruce.Carlson@state.mn.us)

Home Page: https://www.dnr.state.mn.us/mbs/index.html

Collection Type: Observations

Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal

Global Unique Identifier: fd845849-cd61-4301-83bb-ebd0267b0d70

DwC-Archive Publishing: https://bellatlas.umn.edu:443/collections/datasets/datapublisher.php

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Digital Metadata: EML File

Usage Rights: CC0 1.0 (Public-domain)

Rights Holder: Minnesota Department of Natural Resources

Collection Statistics

394,340 specimen records
394,340 (100%) georeferenced
202 families
695 genera
1,649 species

Extra Statistics

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Taxon Distribution

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Amorpha (894)
Amphicarpaea (1405)
Apios (22)
Astragalus (365)
Baptisia (8)
Chamaecrista (8)
Coronilla (3)
Dalea (1228)
Desmanthus (2)
Desmodium (775)
Glycyrrhiza (147)
Gymnocladus (3)
Lathyrus (2766)
Lespedeza (218)
Lotus (27)
Lupinus (47)
Medicago (150)
Melilotus (473)
Oxytropis (40)
Pediomelum (488)
Robinia (2)
Strophostyles (4)
Tephrosia (48)
Trifolium (272)
Vicia (641)