The Fungal Literature-based Occurrence Database in Southern West Siberia (Russia)

• Published in: Biodiversity Information Science and Standards
• Main Authors: Filippova, Nina, Ageev, Dmitry, Bolshakov, Sergey, Vayshlya, Olga, Vlasenko, Anastasia, Vlasenko, Vyacheslav, Gashkov, Sergei, Gorbunova, Irina, Davydov, Eugene, Zvyagina, Elena, Kudashova, Nadezhda, Tomoshevich, Maria, Filippova, Aleksandra, Shabanova, Natalia, Yakovchenko, Lidia, Vorob'eva, Irina, Kalinina, Ludmila, Palomozhnykh, Ekaterina
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Pensoft Publishers 2021
• Subjects: materialCitation; fungi; digitization; biodiversity data mobilization; GBIF; Filippova; Yenisey; ural mountains; yenisey river; Siberia
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/5514982; https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.5.74178

The abstract presents the initiative to develop the Fungal Literature-based Occurrence Database for Southern West Siberia (FuSWS), which mobilizes occurrences of fungi from published literature (literature-based occurrences, Darwin Core MaterialCitation). The FuSWS database includes 28 fields describing species name, publication source, herbarium number (if exists), date of sampling or observation, locality information, vegetation, substrate, and others. The initiative on digitization of literature-based occurrence data started in the northern part of Western Siberia two years ago (Filippova et al. 2021a). The present project extends the initiative to the south and includes eight administrative regions (Sverdlovsk, Omsk, Kurgan, Tomsk, Novosibirsk, Kemerovo, Altay, and Gorny Altay). The area occupies the central to southern part of the West Siberian Plain. It extends for about 1.5 thousand km from the west to the east from the eastern slopes of the Ural Mountains to Yenisey River, and from north to south—about 1.3 thousand km. The total area equals about 1.2 million km2.Currently, the project is actively growing in spatial, collaboration and data accumulation terms. The working group of about 30 mycologists from 16 organizations dedicated to the digitization initiative was created as part of the Siberian Mycological Society (informal organization since 2019). They have created the most complete bibliographic list of mycology-related papers for the Southern West Siberia, including over 800 publications for the last two centuries (the earliest dated 1800). At abstract submission, the database had been populated with a total of about 10K records from about 100 sources. The dataset is uploaded to GBIF, where it is available for online search of species occurrences and/or download (Filippova et al. 2021b) Fig. 1. The project's page with the introduction, templates, bibliography list, video-presentations and written instructions is available at the website of the Siberian Mycological Society ...