Description
The herbarium of the Altai Botanical Garden is the most important tool for studying the species diversity of vascular plants of the Republic of Kazakhstan, which is a basic component of botanical science. The value of any herbarium fund was determined by Carl Linnaeus: "Herbarium praestat omni icone, necessarium omni botanico" ("herbarium has superiority over any image and is necessary for every botanist"). [recovered version] The herbarium of the Altai Botanical Garden began to form in 1936, almost simultaneously from the day of its foundation, and at the present stage is of scientific, educational and historical value. The herbarium fund has an international index – ABG. At the present stage, it consists of more than 30,000 herbarium specimens, which include systematic and geographical collections formed according to the Engler system. At the end of the 20th century - the beginning of the 21st century, a considerable number of works based on materials stored in ABG were published, as well as candidate's and doctoral dissertations were completed. The herbarium collection is unique not only in the richness of the collected samples, but also in the history of collections dated 1937– 1941. More than one generation of scientists from the botanical garden took part in the formation of the herbarium, but the greatest contribution to the replenishment of the herbarium fund was made by the famous researcher of the flora of the Kazakh Altai Yu.A. Kotukhov. The ABG herbarium most fully presents the species he collected from the families Poaceae Barnhart, Asteraceae Bercht. J.Presl, Apiaceae Lindl., Fabaceae Lindl.. The typical samples, which served to describe new taxa for science and flora of Kazakhstan, are especially valuable. Currently, the herbarium fund is being systematized again, updated and replenished with new samples representing the unique factual material of the natural flora of the East Kazakhstan region. The creation of the ABG Digital Herbarium opens access to the information stored in our Herbarium to a wide range of interested parties, in addition, it has become possible to join the Global Biodiversity Information System GBIF.org and the opening of our data to the world community, which will allow specialists from other countries to use this data in global international projects.
Data Records
The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 533 records.
This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.
Versions
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How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Issakova E, Lagus O (2024). Herbarium fund of Altai botanical garden (ABG). Version 1.1. Altai Botanical Garden. Occurrence dataset. https://gbif.buketov.edu.kz/resource?r=herbarium_found_abg&v=1.1
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is Altai Botanical Garden. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 92a883fa-a20c-41d6-b226-0c9ab6f5b69b. Altai Botanical Garden publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Participant Node Managers Committee.
Keywords
Occurrence; Specimen
Contacts
- Originator
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Geographic Coverage
The administrative center is the city of Ust-Kamenogorsk. It borders on one region of Kazakhstan, one region of China and two regions of Russia: in the west - with the Abay region; in the east - with the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of China; in the north - with the Altai Territory and the Altai Republic of the Russian Federation. The highest point is Mount Belukha.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
Alliaceae Asteraceae Poaceae Rosaceae
Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 2022-06-12 / 2022-09-04 |
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Project Data
No Description available
| Title | Scientific and Technical Program "Study of the current state of the species diversity of vascular plants in Kazakhstan using modern methods of botany, molecular genetics and bioinformatics" |
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| Identifier | BR18574125 |
Sampling Methods
Route-reconnaissance method
| Study Extent | Kazakhstan part of Altai mountains |
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Method step description:
- Flora of Kazakhstan, volume I-IX; GPS navigator WGS84; Scanner ObjectScan I600; Agropyron desertorum (Fisch. Ex Link)Schult, Agropyron cristatum (L.) Gaertn., Thymus marschallianus Viv., Allium schoenoprasum L., Artemisia dracunculus L., Ribes aciculare Sm., Crataegus chlorocarpa Lenn? & K.Koch, Allium altaicum Pall., Elymus caninus (L.) L., Carum carvi L.
Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | 92a883fa-a20c-41d6-b226-0c9ab6f5b69b |
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| https://gbif.buketov.edu.kz/resource?r=herbarium_abg |