Fleroff goes digital: georeferenced records from "Flora des Gouvernements Wladimir" (Fleroff, 1902).

ABSTRACT:

Background

Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) has uneven data coverage across taxonomic, spatial and temporal dimensions. Temporal imbalances in the data coverage are particularly dramatic. Thus, 188.3M GBIF records were made in 2020, more than the whole lot of the currently available pre-1986 electronic data. This underscores the importance of reliable and precise biodiversity spatial data collected in early times. Biological collections certainly play a key role in our knowledge of biodiversity in the past. However, digitisation of historical literature is underway, being a modern trend in biodiversity data mining. The grid dataset for the flora of Vladimir Oblast, Russia, includes many historical records borrowed from the "Flora des Gouvernements Wladimir" by Alexan

SUBMITTER: Seregin AP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8551138 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature