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A 23 000 km transect: new Arctic plant and lichen collections from the Canada C3 Expedition

Paul Sokoloff
Canadian Museum of Nature

Graham, Mark, Canadian Museum of Nature, Ottawa, Canada
McMullin, R. Troy, Canadian Museum of Nature, Ottawa, Canada
Alfonso, Noel, Canadian Museum of Nature, Ottawa, Canada
Bull, Roger, Canadian Museum of Nature, Ottawa, Canada
Dare, Oluwayemisi, Canadian Museum of Nature, Ottawa, Canada
Doubt, Jennifer, Canadian Museum of Nature, Ottawa, Canada
Edwards, Mark, Royal Alberta Museum, Edmonton, Canada
Fox, Caroline, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada
Hamilton, Paul, Canadian Museum of Nature, Ottawa, Canada
Hendrycks, Ed, Canadian Museum of Nature, Ottawa, Canada
Kresky, Lisa, Maani Ulujuk Ilinniarvik, Rankin Inlet, Canada
LaRoche, Julie, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada
Moore, Rhiannon, Ocean Wise, Vancouver, Canada
Piilonen, Paula, Canadian Museum of Nature, Ottawa, Canada
Sahanatien, Vicki, Nunavut Wildlife Management Board, Iqaluit, Nunavut
Teeter, Lianna, Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Victoria, Canada
Tsang, Man-Yin, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Van Buren, Peter, Institute of Ocean Sciences, Sidney, Canada
Wong, Michael, International Union for the Conservation of Nature, Ottawa, Canada
Saarela, Jeffery, Canadian Museum of Nature, Ottawa, Canada

Canada C3 was a 150 day marine journey from Toronto, Ontario to Victoria, British Columbia by way of the Northwest Passage. Based on the icebreaker Polar Prince, this expedition brought together a diverse group of Canadians to explore Canada’s coasts while reflecting on the journey’s core themes of Diversity and Inclusion, Reconciliation, Youth Engagement and the Environment. During the expedition’s scientific program, shipboard researchers collected plants and lichens at stops along the journey to add new knowledge on the floristic diversity of Canada. Specimens will be deposited at the National Herbarium of Canada at the Canadian Museum of Nature. In all 1321 collections were made by 42 collectors. The majority of these (922) were made in the Canadian Arctic, and many were gathered from places where no or few botanical collections have been made previously (e.g., Cape Barrow, Nunavut; Tree River, Nunavut). Notable Arctic collections include the Arctic orangebush lichen (Xanthaptychia aurantiaca), a globally rare (G1) species, and a significant eastward range extension of the spruce muskeg sedge (Carex bigelowii subsp. lugens). All Arctic collections will contribute to the museum’s ongoing Arctic floristic research, and all expedition specimens will serve as a scientific legacy to this epic voyage.


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