Towards the Atlas of the Russian Flora e-data are changing our reality

Special issue of «Science» (2000)

GBIF today

Diversity of original databases
Paris
New York
London
Moscow

Universality of GBIF standards
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GBIF geodata

All data: max. 188,197,913 (2020)
Herbarium specimens: max. 913,455 (1985)
GBIF data by years

GBIF data for Russia

Top sources for Russia in GBIF

GBIF data from Russian institutions

GBIF data from Russia: 2021 vs. 2019
Sep 2021: 4.2M records
Aug 2019: 1.8M records

Top sources from Russia in GBIF

Top 20 countries by plant data in GBIF
Ranks 1 to 10
Ranks 11 to 20

Source #1 for the Russian flora: 1.2M

«Flora of Russia» on iNaturalist
10 Aug 2021

Observers:
15 431
Experts:
5700
Subscribers: 2208
“Core
Team”
10 Aug 2021
Community of “Flora of Russia”

Sergey Appolonov,
Independent Res., Shumerlya
Nikolay Panasenko,
Bryansk State University
Nikolay Degtyarev,
Central Chernozem Reserve
Alexey Seregin,
Moscow State University
Ekaterina Kashirina,
Moscow State University
Marina Gorbunova,
Independent Res., Korolyov
Igor Pospelov,
Severtsov Institute, RAS
Vladimir Teploukhov,
Omsk Forest Department
Top observers on iNaturalist (Flora of Russia)

Dmitry Bochkov,
Moscow State University
Julia Shner,
Moscow State University
Sergey Mayorov,
Moscow State University
Alexey Seregin,
Moscow State University
Igor Kuzmin,
Tyumen State University
Alexander Khimin,
Pavlovsk School #2
Sergey Lednev,
Moscow State University
Top experts on iNaturalist (Flora of Russia)
Natalya Gamova,
Moscow State University

Data density vs. Population density
Data density on iNaturalist
Population density of Russia
Sources: https://www.fresher.ru/2019/12/03/karty-plotnosti-naseleniya-rossii-evropy-ssha-i-avstralii/
https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/flora-of-russia/

Source #2 for the Russian flora: 0.6M

Herbarium collections: top countries
USA 78,462,700
France 24,046,688
UK 23,655,232
Germany 22,120,100
People's Republic of China 20,375,136
Russia 16,175,934
Japan 12,860,724
Sweden 12,033,000
Switzerland 12,027,534
Italy 11,596,611
Source: Thiers (2021)
http://sweetgum.nybg.org/science/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/The_Worlds_Herbaria_2020.pdf

Digitization of herbaria in Russia
Russia:
16,176,000 physical specimens
1,309,000 imaged
7,8% imaged
World:
396,205,000 physical specimens
ca. 62,000,000 imaged
15,6% imaged
Sources: Thiers (2021), Index Herbariorum, other sources
Original counts and estimates
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Top herbarium collections of Russia
Source: Thiers (2021)
http://sweetgum.nybg.org/science/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/The_Worlds_Herbaria_2020.pdf

Top digital herbaria of Russia
Source: Seregin (2020)
Modified 18 Jan 2021

Source #3 for the Russian flora: 0.3M

Published distribution maps
Flora of Siberia
1987–2003

Five standard floras
Areas 3,4
1988-2003
Area 2
2003-[2021]
Area 6
1968-1993
Area 1
1974-2004
Area 5
1985-2006
LE
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TASH
NS,NSK
VLA

Regional floras, guides, checklists

Specimens vs. Citizen Science
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Data growth on Russian plants in GBIF
Moscow University Herbarium
imaged (end of 2017)
“Flora of Russia” project on iNaturalist
launched (2019)