Biodiversity Data Journal (Nov 2020)

"Flora of Russia" on iNaturalist: a dataset

  • Alexey Seregin,
  • Dmitriy Bochkov,
  • Julia Shner,
  • Eduard Garin,
  • Igor Pospelov,
  • Vadim Prokhorov,
  • Pavel Golyakov,
  • Sergey Mayorov,
  • Sergey Svirin,
  • Alexander Khimin,
  • Marina Gorbunova,
  • Ekaterina Kashirina,
  • Olga Kuryakova,
  • Boris Bolshakov,
  • Aleksandr Ebel,
  • Anatoliy Khapugin,
  • Maxim Mallaliev,
  • Sergey Mirvoda,
  • Sergey Lednev,
  • Dina Nesterkova,
  • Nadezhda Zelenova,
  • Svetlana Nesterova,
  • Viktoriya Zelenkova,
  • Georgy Vinogradov,
  • Olga Biryukova,
  • Alla Verkhozina,
  • Alexey Zyrianov,
  • Sergey Gerasimov,
  • Ramazan Murtazaliev,
  • Yurii Basov,
  • Kira Marchenkova,
  • Dmitry Vladimirov,
  • Dina Safina,
  • Sergey Dudov,
  • Nikolai Degtyarev,
  • Diana Tretyakova,
  • Daba Chimitov,
  • Evgenij Sklyar,
  • Alesya Kandaurova,
  • Svetlana Bogdanovich,
  • Alexander Dubynin,
  • Olga Chernyagina,
  • Aleksandr Lebedev,
  • Mikhail Knyazev,
  • Irina Mitjushina,
  • Nina Filippova,
  • Kseniia Dudova,
  • Igor Kuzmin,
  • Tatyana Svetasheva,
  • Vladimir Zakharov,
  • Vladimir Travkin,
  • Yaroslav Magazov,
  • Vladimir Teploukhov,
  • Andrey Efremov,
  • Olesya Deineko,
  • Viktor Stepanov,
  • Eugene Popov,
  • Dmitry Kuzmenckin,
  • Tatiana Strus,
  • Tatyana Zarubo,
  • Konstantin Romanov,
  • Alexei Ebel,
  • Denis Tishin,
  • Vladimir Arkhipov,
  • Vladimir Korotkov,
  • Svetlana Kutueva,
  • Vladimir Gostev,
  • Mikhail Krivosheev,
  • Natalia Gamova,
  • Veronica Belova,
  • Oleg Kosterin,
  • Sergey Prokopenko,
  • Rinat Sultanov,
  • Irina Kobuzeva,
  • Nikolay Dorofeev,
  • Alexander Yakovlev,
  • Yuriy Danilevsky,
  • Irina Zolotukhina,
  • Damir Yumagulov,
  • Valerii Glazunov,
  • Vladimir Bakutov,
  • Andrey Danilin,
  • Igor Pavlov,
  • Elena Pushay,
  • Elena Tikhonova,
  • Konstantin Samodurov,
  • Dmitrii Epikhin,
  • Tatyana Silaeva,
  • Andrei Pyak,
  • Yulia Fedorova,
  • Evgeniy Samarin,
  • Denis Shilov,
  • Valentina Borodulina,
  • Ekaterina Kropocheva,
  • Gennadiy Kosenkov,
  • Uladzimir Bury,
  • Anna Mitroshenkova,
  • Tatiana Karpenko,
  • Ruslan Osmanov,
  • Maria Kozlova,
  • Tatiana Gavrilova,
  • Stepan Senator,
  • Maxim Khomutovskiy,
  • Eugene Borovichev,
  • Ilya Filippov,
  • Serguei Ponomarenko,
  • Elena Shumikhina,
  • Dmitry Lyskov,
  • Evgeny Belyakov,
  • Mikhail Kozhin,
  • Leonid Poryadin,
  • Artem Leostrin

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.8.e59249
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8
pp. 1 – 84

Abstract

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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 are involved in the data collection.Within 20 months the participants accumulated over 750,000 photo observations of 6,853 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 85% of all project data are available under free licenses (CC0, CC-BY, CC-BY-NC) and can be freely used in scientific, educational and environmental activities.