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The paper presents the initiative on literature-based occurrence data mobilisation of fungi and fungi-related organisms (literature-based occurrences,
The initiative is actively growing in spatial, collaboration and data accumulation terms. The working group of about 30 mycologists from eight organisations dedicated to the data mobilisation was created as part of the
At the time of the paper submission, the database had been populated with a total of about 8 K records from 93 sources. The dataset is uploaded to GBIF, where it is available for online search of species occurrences and/or download. The project's page with the introduction, templates, bibliography list, video-presentations and written instructions is available (in Russian) at the web site of the
The paper presents the first project with the aim of literature-based occurrence data mobilisation of fungi and fungi-related organisms in the southern West Siberia. The full bibliography and a digital library of all regional mycological publications created for the first time includes about 900 published works. By the time of paper submission, nearly 8 K occurrence records were extracted from about 90 literature sources and integrated into the FuSWS database published in GBIF.
The mycological research in the southern part of West Siberia stems from isolated studies at the end of the 19th century, yet regular and systematic research only began in the second half of the century. Over the following decades, several dozen researchers worked in the area and a total of over 1000 scientific works were published. The history of research of particular fungal groups was earlier described in a series of publications (
The history of
Study of
The history of
The description of the history of research was not intended to be complete and only describes the main fields of research of fungal diversity in the region and lists the key researchers and works. For a full mycological bibliography for the southern West Siberia, the reader is invited to read Suppl. material
The data mobilisation working group of the Siberian Mycological Society.
The working group of about 30 mycologists from eight organisations dedicated to the fungal literature-based records mobilisation initiative was created as part of the
The project was aimed at mobilisation of species records accumulated in the course of previous mycological studies and published in peer-reviewed scientific literature from the beginning of research up to date (
The following protocol was used to standardise and improve the mobilisation workflow:
The bibliography was compiled using The template of the FuSWS database was made with From the available publications related to the region, the only works with species occurrence reports were selected for the databasing purpose. The main source of occurrences were annotated species lists with exact localities of the records. However, different sorts of other species citations were also included, provided that they had the connection to any geography and could be georeferenced at least to the regional level. Most of the occurrences were georeferenced, either from the coordinates provided in the paper or from the verbatim description of the field work locality. The georeferencing of the verbatim descriptions was made using The locality names were reserved in the field « When possible, the « The ecological features, habitat or relief were written in the « The substrate is important feature of fungal occurrences and was extracted in the « Other annotation records, including the abundance, fruiting season and others, were accommodated in the « The original scientific names reported in publications were filled in the «verbatimScientificName» field and reserved in the original database. This field was used to create the « To track the digitisation process, a metadata worksheet was maintained. Each bibliographic record had a series of fields to describe the digitisation process and its results: the total number of extracted occurrence records, general description of the occurrence quality, presence of the observation date, details of georeferencing and the name of a person responsible for the digitisation.
The dataset is limited by the administrative borders of ten regions (Tyumen Region, Sverdlovsk Region, Chelyabinsk Region, Kurgan Region, Omsk Region, Tomsk Region, Novosibirsk Region, Kemerovo Region, Altai Territory and Republic of Altai).
The region occupies the central to southern part of the West Siberian Plain. The area extends for about 1.5K km from the west to the east from the eastern slopes of the Ural Mountains to Yenisey River and from north to south – about 1.3K km. The total area equals about 1.4 m km2.
The area is very diverse in biogeographical terms, including several vegetation zones from steppe to taiga forest and mountain ecosystems. The relief in the central part is mainly a plain, but the south-eastern part of the area is occupied by several mountain systems of Altai, Salair, Kuznetsk Alatau and Gornaya Shoriya. The western part of West Siberia is bordered by the Ural Mountains.
Most administrative divisions were covered by mycological research, but the intensity of the research varies (Fig.
49.309 and 60.907 Latitude; 61.518 and 95.4909 Longitude.
According to the database summary report by the time of paper submission, there are occurrences of about 2200 species mobilised in the FuSWS database, which represent 800 genera, 230 families, 80 orders, 19 classes, five phyla and three kingdoms (
About 90 publications for the last century.
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The Fungal Literature-based Occurrence Database for the southern West Siberia (Russia).
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The Fungal Literature-based Occurrence Database for the southern West Siberia (Russia).
Darwin Core
The dataset includes a table in Darwin Core format with 31 original fields and about 8 K records.
Column label | Column description |
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occurrenceID | |
basisOfRecord | |
bibliographicCitation | |
catalogNumber | |
coordinateUncertaintyInMetres | |
countryCode | |
county | |
decimalLatitude | |
decimalLongitude | |
eventDate | |
fieldNotes | |
geodeticDatum | |
georeferencedBy | |
georeferenceProtocol | |
georeferenceSources | |
habitat | |
identifiedBy | |
kingdom | |
locality | |
occurrenceRemarks | |
recordedBy | |
scientificName | |
stateProvince | |
taxonRank | |
verbatimElevation | |
eventRemarks | |
verbatimLocality | |
verbatimLatitude | |
verbatimLongitude | |
verbatimEventDate | |
language |
The research was partially funded by the grant of the Tyumen Region Government in accordance with the Program of the West Siberian Interregional Scientific and Educational Center, National Project "Nauka"; and a grant for organisation of New Young Researcher Laboratories as part of the implementation of the National Project "Science and Universities"; Elena A. Zvyagina’s work was supported by a grant from the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR) 20-04-00349; Maria A. Tomoshevich and Irina G. Vorob'eva were funded by budgetary project No. AAAA-A21-121011290027-6 of the Central Siberian Botanical Garden of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (CSBG SB RAS), Novosibirsk, Russia.
All authors participated in compilation of bibliography and extraction of the species occurrences included in the database and participated in the revision of the paper. Nina Filippova was an initiator of the digitisation initiative and responsible for data integration and publishing in GBIF. Sergei Bolshakov made the major data cleaning work with the database. Sergei Bolshakov and Dmitry Ageev compiled the bibliography in Zotero. Ilya Filippov prepared the distribution map.
The distribution of the occurrence records from the FuSWS on Landsat satellite image of the area. The clustering of points was made within a radius of 100 km; the scale breaks were selected manually after plotting the frequency distribution histogram.
Taxonomic distribution of occurrences in the fungal literature-based occurrence database for the southern West Siberia.
The bibliography of mycological research in southern West Siberia
Bibliography
The bibliography presents all mycological scientific publications (journal papers, conference proceedings, PhD theses, monographs and book chapters) related to the mycological research in southern West Siberia from the beginning of research to date.
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