Virtual Herbarium ALTB: collection of vascular plants of the Altai Mountain Country.
Aleksey V VaganovAlexander I ShmakovSergey V SmirnovNadezda A UsikAlena A ShibanovaAleksey A KechaykinPetr A KosachevTatyana M KopytinaElizaveta A ZholnerovaKristina E MedvedevaVladimir F ZaikovTatyana A SinitsynaAlexander P ShalimovEvgenij V AntonyukPolina D GudkovaDenis A DmitrievAlexander A BatkinDmitry E KasatkinDenis L BelkinPublished in: Biodiversity data journal (2021)
The Virtual Herbarium ALTB (Russian interface - altb.asu.ru) is the largest digital collection of plants from the transboundary territory of the Altai Mountain Country and the main source of primary material for the "Flora Altaica" project (http://altaiflora.asu.ru/en/). Since 2017, when Altai State University became a GBIF data publisher, data from the Virtual Herbarium ALTB has been exported to the dataset "Virtual Herbarium ALTB (South-Siberian Botanical Garden)" in GBIF. Currently, it includes images and data from 22,466 vascular plants, of which 67% have geographic coordinates (accessed on 30.03.2021). Most of the specimens have been collected since 1977, with the most intensive collecting years being 1995-2008. In 2019, the label-data table of the Virtual Herbarium ALTB was modified to bring it into conformity with the Darwin Core specification (http://altb.asu.ru/). This effectively solved the major impediment to sharing plant diversity data from the AMC and adjacent regions in a multilingual environment.