"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,

Biodiversity Data Journal · 2020 · 23 citations · 40 references

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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.

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