Yugra State University Biological Collection (Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia): general and digitisation overview

Abstract

The history of biological collections and digitisation initiatives in northern West Siberia is relatively new due to recent development of the region. The Center for Biodiversity Data Mobilization was established to promote the initiative, led by the Yugra State University. This organisation itself has a relatively young collection of biological specimens, which was, until recently, in a disintegrated state and only partly mobilised. The Yugra State University Biological Collection (YSU BC) currently includes three subdivisions differring by history and taxonomic groups, but also by details of management and storage conditions: the Fungarium, the Bryological collection and the Herbarium collection of YSU. The paper describes the general structure of the Yugra State University Biological Collection, its history, storage conditions, management practices, geographical, temporal and taxonomical coverage. The paper is underlined by three datasets of the collections databases published in GBIF, which are described in detail. The databases are managed in Specify 6 and 7 software and accessed through Specify Web Portal and through GBIF. The Yugra State University Biological Collection made an active reorganisation of physical storage conditions and data management recently, providing the model for other collections in the region. This paper describes the history, general structure, management practices and data management of all three parts of this collection for the first time. Although one part of the collection (Fungarium YSU) was mobilised earlier, last year, we mobilised data of the Bryological and Vascular plants (Herbarium) collections. The three datasets of the corresponding collections in GBIF were increased by about 6000 georeferenced records during the last year.

DNA-based occurrence dataset on peatland fungal communities studied by metabarcoding in north-western Siberia

“… A global checklist of fungi from peatlands, compiled from a literature-based occurrence dataset ( Filippova and Rudykina 2023 ). The taxonomic structure of fungal diversity represented by the dataset (after synonimisation using the GBIF species matching tool) includes three kingdoms ( Fungi , Chromista and Protozoa ), seven phyla, 27 classes, 87 orders, 239 families, 616 genera and about 1500 species.…”

“…Different approaches were chosen, most often a microbiological approach using cultivation techniques and a direct observation approach of collecting or counting the fruiting structures of larger fungi. As estimated globally, there are about 600 species of fungi described in peatlands and included in the first checklist of peatland fungi ( Thormann and Rice 2007 ), but about 1500 species presently, according to our accumulated literature-based peatland fungi dataset ( Filippova and Rudykina 2023 ).…”

“… A sampling-event dataset was published in 2020 and has been updated yearly, currently representing 10 years of plot-based surveys of larger fungi in the Mukhrino Bog ( Filippova and Lapshina 2019 , Filippova et al 2023c ); An occurrence dataset with DNA-derived extension was published recently following the barcoding of the specimens collection from the Mukhrino Raised Bog ( Filippova et al 2023a , Filippova et al 2023d ); A literature-based occurrence dataset (citations of published sources) was initiated and will be updated regularly as new research on peatland fungi worldwide emerges ( Filippova and Rudykina 2023 ). …”

“…A literature-based occurrence dataset (citations of published sources) was initiated and will be updated regularly as new research on peatland fungi worldwide emerges ( Filippova and Rudykina 2023 ).…”

Citizen science helps in the study of fungal diversity in New Jersey

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