Fragile Inheritance
Understanding
ecological change
in Canada
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Mission: Fragile Inheritance promotes and supports the long term study of species and habitats, human & environmental effects on them, and the conservation of biodiversity, based on the lifetime work of Fred Schueler & Aleta Karstad.

"Wow this is an awesome database! . . . it looks like the records have everything I am interested in."

Jody Peters, PhD Candidate, University of Notre Dame, Indiana
Fragile Inheritance
6 St-Lawrence St
Bishops Mills Oxford Station
Ontario, Canada KOG 1T0
(613) 299-3107
info@fragileinheritance.ca

Introduction To The Database

Since 1985 Fred Schueler has been keeping a database that combines catalog and observational information on Canadian natural history. The Fragile Inheritance Database has been structured to handle any kind of observation, including various kinds of text, measurements, and images. This is a general natural history database which can handle any kind of natural history observation, data, or specimen. Our goal is to make this kind of database widely available.

We presently have 152,732 of our records in the database, besides those accumulated from others.


A History of the Database
Database Uses
Screenshot of a sample record
Example of a printed record
Specimen labels

What can we do to increase awareness of habitat loss, invasive species, and human impact on nature?

There is no other independent organized group in Canada which is dedicated to promoting long term monitoring. This is your chance to support the work of Fragile Inheritance.
About the book...
FRAGILE INHERITANCE:
a painter's ecology of glaciated North America

lavishly illustrated with watercolours and
descriptive prose from sea to sea
drawing the baseline for
a legacy of beauty and
change - Aleta Karstad
and Frederick W .
Schueler's life work