TUL Herbarium: collections of vascular plants of Tula Oblast, Russia

Tatyana Yu Svetasheva; Alexey P Seregin

doi:10.3897/BDJ.8.e61454

TUL Herbarium: collections of vascular plants of Tula Oblast, Russia

Biodivers Data J. 2020 Dec 24:8:e61454. doi: 10.3897/BDJ.8.e61454. eCollection 2020.

Authors

Tatyana Yu Svetasheva¹, Alexey P Seregin^{2

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Affiliations

¹ Tula State Lev Tolstoy Pedagogical University, Tula, Russia Tula State Lev Tolstoy Pedagogical University Tula Russia.
² Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia Lomonosov Moscow State University Moscow Russia.
³ M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University Moscow Russia.

Abstract

Background: TUL Herbarium presents collections from Tula Oblast stored at the Tula State Lev Tolstoy Pedagogical University, Russia, which is an educational and scientific institution that supports various types of scientific activities, including research on biodiversity and nature conservation. The university is a holder of some biological collections, such as herbarium of vascular plants, mosses and fungi collected mainly throughout Tula Oblast and from adjacent regions.

New information: The collections of vascular plants (9,000 specimens) were imaged in December 2019 and January 2020. Databasing and georeferencing of the specimens from the TUL Herbarium was performed by the staff members of the Tula State Lev Tolstoy Pedagogical University and Tula Local History Museum. Digital collections of the TUL Herbarium are fully available in the Moscow Digital Herbarium (https://plant.depo.msu.ru/) and GBIF (https://doi.org/10.15468/ca08cm).

Keywords: Eastern Europe; Russia; Tula Oblast; collections; database; digitisation; georeferencing; herbarium; occurrence; specimen.

Tatyana Yu. Svetasheva, Alexey P. Seregin.

Grants and funding

The imaging was supported by the research project 19-44-710002 (Diversity assessment and visualization of the Tula Oblast flora using modern data technologies) funded by RFBR and Tula Oblast Government.