Distribution of alpine endemic plants of northern Asia: a dataset

Abstract

We describe a dataset providing information on the geographic distribution of northern Asian endemic alpine plants. It was obtained by digitising maps from the atlas “Endemic alpine plants of Northern Asia”. Northern Asia includes numerous mountain ranges which may have served as refugia during the Pleistocene ice ages, but there have been no studies that analysed this question. We suggest that this dataset can be applied for better understanding of the alpine endemism in northern Asia. The dataset includes 13709 species distribution records, representing 211 species from 31 families and 106 genera. Each record provides data regarding the distribution of an individual species. These data provide a foundation for studying northern Asia's endemic alpine species and conducting research on the factors concerning their distribution.

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“…Этот процесс стал более доступным с появлением большого числа отсканированных гербарных материалов. За последние годы нами проведена оцифровка карт ареалов растений из различных флористических сводок [Brianskaia et al, 2021, 2022a].…”

Distribution of vascular plants north of Lake Baikal: a new, open access dataset

“…2 ). We used a similar technique as employed for our previous dataset describing the distributions of endemic alpine species of northern Asia ( Brianskaia et al 2021 ). All the maps were adjusted to the same size and horizontal position in order to obtain standardised images of the maps.…”

Diversity and distribution of Oxytropis DC. (Fabaceae) species in Asian Russia

“…The other source, the atlas "Endemic Alpine Plants of Northern Asia," also contains information on the distribution of 13 locoweed species with 281 occurrences in Asian Russia. We have not considered this source, while it was recently published in a separate dataset (Brianskaia et al 2021a, Brianskaia et al 2021b The digitalisation was performed in QGIS 3.10 and QGIS 3.16 software through the georeferencing tool. We georeferenced the source raster distribution maps by snapping control points to the destination vector shapefile.…”