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"Flora of Russia" on iNaturalist: a dataset.

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The "Flora of Russia" project on iNaturalist brought together professional scientists and amateur naturalists from all over the country. Over 10,000 people were involved in the data collection.

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Within 20 months, the participants accumulated 750,143 photo observations of 6,857 species of the Russian flora. This constitutes the largest dataset of open spatial data on the country's biodiversity and a leading source of data on the current state of the national flora. About 87% of all project data, i.e. 652,285 observations, are available under free licences (CC0, CC-BY, CC-BY-NC) and can be freely used in scientific, educational and environmental activities.

SUBMITTER: Seregin AP

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7686226 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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"Flora of Russia" on iNaturalist: a dataset.

Seregin Alexey P AP Bochkov Dmitriy A DA Shner Julia V JV Garin Eduard V EV Pospelov Igor N IN Prokhorov Vadim E VE Golyakov Pavel V PV Mayorov Sergey R SR Svirin Sergey A SA Khimin Alexander N AN Gorbunova Marina S MS Kashirina Ekaterina S ES Kuryakova Olga P OP Bolshakov Boris V BV Ebel Aleksandr L AL Khapugin Anatoliy A AA Mallaliev Maxim M MM Mirvoda Sergey V SV Lednev Sergey A SA Nesterkova Dina V DV Zelenova Nadezhda P NP Nesterova Svetlana A SA Zelenkova Viktoriya N VN Vinogradov Georgy M GM Biryukova Olga V OV Verkhozina Alla V AV Zyrianov Alexey P AP Gerasimov Sergey V SV Murtazaliev Ramazan A RA Basov Yurii M YM Marchenkova Kira Yu KY Vladimirov Dmitry R DR Safina Dina B DB Dudov Sergey V SV Degtyarev Nikolai I NI Tretyakova Diana V DV Chimitov Daba G DG Sklyar Evgenij A EA Kandaurova Alesya N AN Bogdanovich Svetlana A SA Dubynin Alexander V AV Chernyagina Olga A OA Lebedev Aleksandr V AV Knyazev Mikhail S MS Mitjushina Irina Yu IY Filippova Nina V NV Dudova Kseniia V KV Kuzmin Igor V IV Svetasheva Tatyana Yu TY Zakharov Vladimir P VP Travkin Vladimir P VP Magazov Yaroslav O YO Teploukhov Vladimir Yu VY Efremov Andrey N AN Deineko Olesya V OV Stepanov Viktor V VV Popov Eugene S ES Kuzmenckin Dmitry V DV Strus Tatiana L TL Zarubo Tatyana V TV Romanov Konstantin V KV Ebel Alexei L AL Tishin Denis V DV Arkhipov Vladimir Yu VY Korotkov Vladimir N VN Kutueva Svetlana B SB Gostev Vladimir V VV Krivosheev Mikhail M MM Gamova Natalia S NS Belova Veronica A VA Kosterin Oleg E OE Prokopenko Sergey V SV Sultanov Rinat R RR Kobuzeva Irina A IA Dorofeev Nikolay V NV Yakovlev Alexander A AA Danilevsky Yuriy V YV Zolotukhina Irina B IB Yumagulov Damir A DA Glazunov Valerii A VA Bakutov Vladimir A VA Danilin Andrey V AV Pavlov Igor V IV Pushay Elena S ES Tikhonova Elena V EV Samodurov Konstantin V KV Epikhin Dmitrii V DV Silaeva Tatyana B TB Pyak Andrei I AI Fedorova Yulia A YA Samarin Evgeniy S ES Shilov Denis S DS Borodulina Valentina P VP Kropocheva Ekaterina V EV Kosenkov Gennadiy L GL Bury Uladzimir V UV Mitroshenkova Anna E AE Karpenko Tatiana A TA Osmanov Ruslan M RM Kozlova Maria V MV Gavrilova Tatiana M TM Senator Stepan A SA Khomutovskiy Maxim I MI Borovichev Eugene A EA Filippov Ilya V IV Ponomarenko Serguei V SV Shumikhina Elena A EA Lyskov Dmitry F DF Belyakov Evgeny A EA Kozhin Mikhail N MN Poryadin Leonid S LS Leostrin Artem V AV

Biodiversity data journal 20201117

<h4>Background</h4>The "Flora of Russia" project on iNaturalist brought together professional scientists and amateur naturalists from all over the country. Over 10,000 people were involved in the data collection.<h4>New information</h4>Within 20 months, the participants accumulated 750,143 photo observations of 6,857 species of the Russian flora. This constitutes the largest dataset of open spatial data on the country's biodiversity and a leading source of data on the current state of the nation ...[more]

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