Virtual Herbarium ALTB (South-Siberian Botanical Garden)

Latest version published by Altai State University on May 6, 2025 Altai State University

"Virtual Herbarium ALTB" is a digital collection of Herbarium ALTB specimens (Barnaul, Altai State University). It is one of the most dynamically developing Herbaria in Russia, and ranks seventh in the country in terms of herbarium specimen’s number (over 450,000 sheets). Herbarium ALTB is the largest collection of plants from transboundary territory of the Altai Mountainous Country and the main empirical material of the project "Flora Altaica" (http://altaiflora.asu.ru). The Altai and Sayan territories are included to the list of program "The Global 200. Priority ecoregions for global conservation".

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 67,407 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.

Downloads

Download the latest version of this resource data as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A) or the resource metadata as EML or RTF:

Data as a DwC-A file download 67,407 records in Russian (4 MB) - Update frequency: biannually
Metadata as an EML file download in English (18 KB)
Metadata as an RTF file download in English (17 KB)

Versions

The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.

How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Vaganov A (2025): Virtual Herbarium ALTB (South-Siberian Botanical Garden). v1.73. Altai State University. Dataset/Occurrence. http://altb.asu.ru

Rights

Researchers should respect the following rights statement:

The publisher and rights holder of this work is Altai State University. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 License.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 2dda31ff-f776-452f-9a4b-d5229f6e3494.  Altai State University publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Participant Node Managers Committee.

Keywords

Herbarium; ALTB; DNA; sequence; typus; DNA barcodes; Altai; Russia; Siberia; Mongolia; China; Kazakhstan; Altai-Sayan ecoregion; occurrence

Contacts

Who created the resource:

Alexey Vaganov
scientist
Altai State University, South-Siberian Botanical Garden Lenina str. 61 Barnaul Altai krai RU
https://sites.google.com/site/vaganovalexeyv

Who can answer questions about the resource:

Alexey Vaganov
scientist
Altai State University, South-Siberian Botanical Garden Lenina str. 61 Barnaul Altai krai RU
https://sites.google.com/site/vaganovalexeyv

Who filled in the metadata:

Alexander Shmakov
scientist
Altai State University, South-Siberian Botanical Garden Lenina str. 61 Barnaul Altai krai RU
http://www.asu.ru/search/persons/371/
Vladimir Zaikov
scientist
Altai State University, South-Siberian Botanical Garden Lenina str. 61 Barnaul Altai krai RU
Elizaveta Zholnerova
scientist
Altai State University, South-Siberian Botanical Garden Lenina str. 61 Barnaul Altai krai RU
Alexander Shalimov
scientist
Altai State University, South-Siberian Botanical Garden Lenina str. 61 Barnaul Altai krai RU
Denis Belkin
scientist
Altai State University, South-Siberian Botanical Garden Lenina str. 61 Barnaul Altai krai RU
Alexander Batkin
scientist
Altai State University, South-Siberian Botanical Garden Lenina str. 61 Barnaul Altai krai RU
Petr Kosachev
scientist
Altai State University, South-Siberian Botanical Garden Lenina str. 61 Barnaul Altai krai RU
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Petr_Kosachev
Kristina Medvedeva
scientist
Altai State University, South-Siberian Botanical Garden Lenina str. 61 Barnaul Altai krai RU
Nadja Usik
scientist
Altai State University, South-Siberian Botanical Garden Lenina str. 61 Barnaul Altai krai RU
Polina Gudkova
PhD, Associate Professor
Department of Botany, Altai State university Lenina str. 61 Barnaul Altai krai RU
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Polina_Gudkova
Denis Dmitriev
scientist
Altai State University, South-Siberian Botanical Garden Lenina str. 61 Barnaul Altai krai RU
Alexey Kechaykin
scientist
Altai State University, South-Siberian Botanical Garden Lenina str. 61 Barnaul Altai krai RU

Who else was associated with the resource:

Originator
Alexey Vaganov
scientist
Altai State University, South-Siberian Botanical Garden Lenina str. 61 Barnaul Altai krai RU
https://sites.google.com/site/vaganovalexeyv

Geographic Coverage

The database contains an information on the biological diversity of the Altai Mountain Country (AMC) within the territories of Russia, Mongolia, China and Kazakhstan.

Bounding Coordinates South West [37.996, 65.742], North East [60.065, 114.609]

Taxonomic Coverage

No Description available

Kingdom  Plantae (Plantae)

Project Data

No Description available

Title Russia 2021
Identifier N-Eurasia-Russia2021

The personnel involved in the project:

Content Provider
Alexey Vaganov

Collection Data

Collection Name Herbarium ALTB
Collection Identifier ALTB (acronim)
Specimen preservation methods Dried and pressed
Curatorial Units Between 1 and 450,000 list

Bibliographic Citations

  1. Vaganov AV, Shmakov AI, Smirnov SV, Usik NA, Shibanova AA, Kechaykin AA, Kosachev PA, Kopytina TM, Zholnerova EA, Medvedeva KE, Zaikov VF, Sinitsyna TA, Shalimov AP, Antonyuk EV, Gudkova PD, Dmitriev DA, Batkin AA, Kasatkin DE, Belkin DL (2021) Virtual Herbarium ALTB: collection of vascular plants of the Altai Mountain Country. Biodiversity Data Journal 9: e67616. https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.9.e67616
  2. Vaganov AV, Medvedeva KE (2020) Current state and prospects for the development of the digital collection "Virtual Herbarium ALTB". Problems of Botany of Southern Siberia and Mongolia, 19, 1: 260–263. https://doi.org/10.14258/pbssm.2020051
  3. Vaganov AV, Shmakov AI, Gudkova PD (2019) Global data on biodiversity of the Altai mountain country, presented in the world's scientific depositories. Acta Biologica Sibirica, 5(2), 95–101. https://doi.org/10.14258/abs.v5.i2.5937
  4. Vaganov AV, Medvedeva K, Sinitsyna T. Complex of open access databases of Altai State University for the purposes of the Altai-Sayan ecoregion research. Abstracts of the conference "Information Technologies in the Research of Biodiversity" (BIT-2018). Irkutsk: ISDCT SB RAS, 2018. pp. 39–41.
  5. Vaganov A.V., Sinitsyna T.A., Kutsev M.G., Skaptsov M.V., Zholnerova E.A., Kosachev P.A., Kechaykin A.A., Smirnov S.V., Shmakov A.I. DNA barcodes of the vascular flora of the Altai Mountain Country: type material of the Herbarium ALTB // Turczaninowia, 2022. V. 25, № 4: 5–11. https://doi.org/10.14258/turczaninowia.25.4.1
  6. Shibanova A.A., Zholnerova E.A., Zaikov V.F., Sinitsyna T.A., Shmakov A.I., Vaganov A.V. Principles of the online Red Data Book development using biodiversity datasets: the Altai Mountain Country case. Acta Biologica Sibirica, 2022, V. 8: 583–594. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7726475
  7. Ваганов А.В., Шмаков А.И. Гербарий ALTB в цифровую эпоху: итоги и перспективы // Российская ботаника в меняющемся мире: Тезисы докладов XV Делегатского съезда Русского ботанического общества и конференции «Российская ботаника в меняющемся мире», посвященной 300-летию Российской академии наук (г. Санкт-Петербург, 10–13 сентября 2023 года). – СПб.: Ботанический институт им. В.Л. Комарова РАН, 2023. – C. 14–15.
  8. Ваганов А.В., Скапцов М.В., Кечайкин А.А., Шмаков А.И. Новые подходы в исследовании фиторазнообразия и генетических ресурсов Алтайской горной страны, как основа для глобальной интеграции больших данных Гербария ALTB и обмена научными результатами // Коллекции как основа изучения генетических ресурсов растений и грибов: Тезисы докладов Всероссийской конференции. Санкт-Петербург, 22–23 июня 2022 г. (в рамках Первого научного форума «Генетические ресурсы России», 21–24 июня 2022 г.). – СПб.: Ботанический институт им. В.Л. Комарова РАН, 2022, С. – 7.

Additional Metadata

Alternative Identifiers 2dda31ff-f776-452f-9a4b-d5229f6e3494
http://altb.asu.ru/ipt/resource?r=altb