"Flora of Russia" on iNaturalist: a dataset
Alexey P. Seregin, Dmitriy A. Bochkov, J.V. Shner, Eduard V Garin, Igor N. Pospelov, Vadim Prokhorov, Pavel V Golyakov, S. R. Mayorov, Sergey A. Svirin, Alexander N Khimin, Marina S Gorbunova, Е.С. Каширина, Olga P Kuryakova, Boris V Bolshakov, Aleksandr L. Ebel, Anatoliy A. Khapugin, М. М. Mallaliev, Sergey Mirvoda, Sergey Lednev, Д. В. Нестеркова, Nadezhda P Zelenova, Svetlana A Nesterova, Viktoriya N Zelenkova, Georgy M Vinogradov, Olga V Biryukova, Alla V. Verkhozina, Alexey P Zyrianov, Sergey V Gerasimov, Ramazan A. Murtazaliev, Yurii M Basov, Kira Yu Marchenkova, Dmitry Vladimirov, Dina B Safina, Sergey V. Dudov, Nikolai I Degtyarev, Diana V Tretyakova, Д. Г. Чимитов, Evgenij A Sklyar, Alesya N Kandaurova, Svetlana A Bogdanovich, Alexander Dubynin, Olga A. Chernyagina, А. В. Лебедев, M. S. Knyazev, Irina Yu Mitjushina, Nina Filippova, Ksenia V. Dudova, Igor V. Kuzmin, Tatyana Svetasheva, V.P. Zakharov, В. П. Травкин, Yaroslav O Magazov, Vladimir Yu Teploukhov, А. Н. Ефремов, Olesya V Deineko, Viktor Stepanov, Е. С. Попов, Dmitry V Kuzmenckin, Tatiana L Strus, Tatyana V Zarubo, Konstantin V. Romanov, Alexei L Ebel, Denis V Tishin, Vladimir Arkhipov, В. Н. Коротков, Svetlana B Kutueva, Vladimir Gostev, М. М. Кривошеев, Natalia S. Gamova, Veronica A Belova, Оleg E. Kоsterin, Sergey V. Prokopenko, Rinat R Sultanov, Irina A Kobuzeva, N.V. Dorofeev, A.A. Yakovlev, Yuriy V Danilevsky, Irina B Zolotukhina, Damir A. Yumagulov, В. А. Глазунов, Vladimir A Bakutov, Andrei Vladimirovich Danilin, Igor V Pavlov, Elena S Pushay, Елена Тихонова, Konstantin V Samodurov, Dmitrii Epikhin, Tatyana B. Silaeva, Andrei I Pyak, Y. A. Fedorova, Evgeniy S Samarin, Denis S Shilov, Valentina Borodulina, Ekaterina Kropocheva, Gennadiy Kosenkov, Uladzimir V Bury, Anna Mitroshenkova, Tatiana A Karpenko, Ruslan Osmanov, M. V. Kozlova
Abstract
BACKGROUND: 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. NEW INFORMATION: 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.