Central Siberian Botanical Garden Herbarium (NS, NSK)

Nataliya Kovtonyuk; Irina Han; Evgeniya Gatilova

doi:10.15468/5wcerp

Central Siberian Botanical Garden Herbarium (NS, NSK)

Citation

Kovtonyuk N, Han I, Gatilova E (2021). Central Siberian Botanical Garden Herbarium (NS, NSK). Version 1.5. Central Siberian Botanical Garden SB RAS. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/5wcerp accessed via GBIF.org on 2025-06-17.

Description

Herbarium collections are the most important source of scientific information about the distribution of objects in the past and the present, which allows simulation the dynamics of objects in the future. Only the herbarium sample reliably confirms the presence of the plant organism in a specific point of space in a certain period of time.

Herbarium collections and the data they hold are valuable for more traditional studies of taxonomy and systematic, but also for ecology, bioengineering, conservation, food security, and the human social and cultural elements of scientific collection. The value and universality of herbarium specimens are recognized in most countries, where national and large regional herbariums are actively developing and improving.

The creation of Virtual or Digital herbarium became a modern trend, stage of the inventory and modernization of herbarium collections of the leading Botanical institutions in the world. Our aim is to provide online access to CSBG SB RAS herbarium collections as a worldwide resource for biodiversity study. Writing the long-awaited “Flora of Russia” would be greatly accelerated in the presence of network centers of Digital herbarium collections of Botanical institutions in Russia.

The first herbarium at the Central Siberian Botanical Garden (CSBG SB RAS), Novosibirsk, Russia was organized in 1946. Now there are two herbarium collections in CSBG with their own acronyms and registrations in the Index Herbariorum (NSK and NS). Collection contains about 800,000 herbarium specimens of higher vascular plants, mosses, lichens and fungi sampled in Siberia, Russian Far East, Europe, Asia and America.

Purpose

Our aim is to provide online access to CSBG SB RAS herbarium collections as a worldwide resource for biodiversity study. Writing the long-awaited “Flora of Russia” would be greatly accelerated in the presence of network centers of Virtual herbarium collections of Botanical institutions in Russia.

Sampling Description

Study Extent

The Digital Herbarium of the Central Siberian Botanical Garden of SB RAS began to be created on the taxonomic basis in 2017. Completely digitized herbarium specimens of genera Allium, Geranium, Medicago, Rhododendron, family Primulaceae, rare plants of Siberian flora, as well as type specimens of vascular plants stored in NS and NSK collections at the CSBG SB RAS.

Sampling

The digitization results are published in the open access as 8 datasets on the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) portal using the Integrated Publishing Toolkit (IPT) installed on the CSBG server.

Method steps

Digitization is performed on two ObjectScan 1600 scanners (Microtek) using software ScanWizard-Botany and MiVapp-Botany according to the international standards, at 600 dpi, with a barcode, 24-color scale and spatial scale bar. The Digital Herbarium is created as a network resource on biodiversity, the materials of which can be used in GBIF, for taxonomic treatments in the preparation of “Flora of Russia”, in various types of scientific research and educational purposes.

Taxonomic Coverages

General dataset of digitized NS and NSK collections of the Central Siberian Botanical Gardens SB RAS contains 17460 specimens of 161 families excepting datasets with families Primulaceae, Geraniaceae, genera Allium, Medicago, Rhododendron and Nitraria komarovii, which were published earlier. 33 families with more than 100 specimens in each are listed.

Equisetaceae
rank: family
Poaceae
rank: family
Asteraceae
rank: family
Fabaceae
rank: family
Boraginaceae
rank: family
Cystopteridaceae
rank: family
Cyperaceae
rank: family
Orchidaceae
rank: family
Ranunculaceae
rank: family
Typhaceae
rank: family
Rosaceae
rank: family
Athyriaceae
rank: family
Amaranthaceae
rank: family
Brassicaceae
rank: family
Salicaceae
rank: family
Plumbaginaceae
rank: family
Caryophyllaceae
rank: family
Ericaceae
rank: family
Lamiaceae
rank: family
Liliaceae
rank: family
Dryopteridaceae
rank: family
Apiaceae
rank: family
Betulaceae
rank: family
Orobanchaceae
rank: family
Papaveraceae
rank: family
Campanulaceae
rank: family
Iridaceae
rank: family
Juncaceae
rank: family
Pteridaceae
rank: family
Plantaginaceae
rank: family
Aspleniaceae
rank: family
Polygonaceae
rank: family
Gentianaceae
rank: family

Geographic Coverages

In the dataset specimens from 37 countries of Europe, Asia, America, Africa and Australia are presented, most of them are from Russia.

Bibliographic Citations

Kovtonyuk N.K., Tomoshevich M.A., Banaev E.V. (2019). Typification of the name Nitraria komarovii (Nitrariaceae) // BOTANICA PACIFICA: A JOURNAL OF PLANT SCIENCE AND CONSERVATION V. 8. No 2. P. 115-118. - DOI: 10.17581/bp.2019.08210
Kovtonyuk N.K., Han I.V., Gatilova E.A. Family Primulaceae in digital herbarium of the Central Siberian Botanical Garden SB RAS // Rast. Mir Asian. Russia 2018, № 4 (32). С. 19-29. - DOI:10.21782/RMAR1995-2449-2018-4(19-29).
Kovtonyuk N., Han I. and Gatilova E. Digitization of the herbarium specimens of higher vascular plants in the Central Siberian Botanical Garden // Skvortsovia, 2018. - Vol. 4 (3). - P. 100-111. - http://skvortsovia.uran.ru/2018/4302.pdf
Kovtonyuk N., Han I., Gatilova E. (2019). Digital Herbarium Collections of the Central Siberian Botanical Garden SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia. In: Bychkov I., Voronin V. (eds) Information Technologies in the Research of Biodiversity. Springer Proceedings in Earth and Environmental Sciences. Springer, Cham. – pp. 22–27. - DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11720-7_4
Kovtonyuk N.K., Han I.V., Gatilova E.A., Pshenichkina Yu.A. Digital Herbarium of the CSBG SB RAS in Global Biodiversity Information Facilities // Rast. Mir Asian. Russia 2019, № 4 (36). С. 68–73. - DOI: 10.21782/RMAR1995-2449-2019-4(68-73).
Kovtonyuk, N.K.: Virtual herbarium collections as a resource for taxonomy and biodiversity study. Rast. Mir Asian. Russia 1(25), 98–104 (2017) - DOI:10.21782/RMAR1995-2449-2017-1(98-104).
Kovtonyuk N, Han I, Gatilova E (2019). Family Primulaceae in Digital Herbaria of CSBG SB RAS (NSK). Version 1.7. Central Siberian Botanical Garden SB RAS. Occurrence dataset - https://doi.org/10.15468/zw7jnn
Kovtonyuk N, Han I, Gatilova E (2019). Family Primulaceae in Digital Herbaria of CSBG SB RAS (NS). Central Siberian Botanical Garden SB RAS. Occurrence dataset - https://doi.org/10.15468/be6owh
Kovtonyuk N, Han I, Gatilova E, Friesen N (2019). Genus Allium in CSBG SB RAS herbarium collections (NS,NSK). Central Siberian Botanical Garden SB RAS. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/e4hv2e - https://doi.org/10.15468/e4hv2e
Kovtonyuk N, Han I, Gatilova E, Karakulov A (2019). Genus Rhododendron in Digital herbarium of CSBG SB RAS (NS, NSK). Version 1.2. Central Siberian Botanical Garden SB RAS. Occurrence dataset - https://doi.org/10.15468/67ouin
Kovtonyuk N, Han I, Gatilova E (2019). Genus Medicago (Fabaceae) in CSBG Herbarium collections (NS, NSK). Version 1.4. Central Siberian Botanical Garden SB RAS. Occurrence dataset - https://doi.org/10.15468/jvrxeh
Kovtonyuk N, Han I, Ovchinnikova S, Nikiforova O, Vlasova N, Shekhovtsova I, Doron′kin V, Troshkina V, Pinzhenina E, Belyaeva I, Eremin I (2019). Typotheca of the higher vascular plants stored in M.G. Popov Herbarium (NSK) at the Central Siberian botanical garden SB RAS. Version 1.5. Central Siberian Botanical Garden SB RAS. Occurrence dataset - https://doi.org/10.15468/qdfdqq
Tomoshevich M, Banaev E, Ak-Lama T, Kovtonyuk N, Han I (2019). Nitraria komarovii in the Digital herbarium of CSBG SB RAS (NSK). Version 1.2. Central Siberian Botanical Garden SB RAS. Occurrence dataset - https://doi.org/10.15468/jp2qco

Contacts

Nataliya Kovtonyuk
originator
position: Head of research group USU-Herbarium CSBG
Central Siberian Botanical Garden SB RAS
Zolotodolinskaya Str., 101
Novosibirsk
630090
Novosibirskaya obl.
RU
Telephone: +79529365495
email: knat2008@yandex.ru
homepage: https://csbg-nsk.ru/kovtonyuk_nk
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4018-6634

Irina Han
originator
position: main engineer
Central Siberian Botanical Garden SB RAS
Zolotodolinskaya Str., 101
Novosibirsk
630090
Novosibirskaya obl.
RU
email: irahan81@gmail.com
homepage: https://csbg-nsk.ru/unu_herbarium
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8385-5247

Evgeniya Gatilova
originator
position: main specialist
Central Siberian Botanical Garden SB RAS
Zolotodolinskaya Str., 101
Novosibirsk
630090
Novosibirskaya obl.
RU
email: zhenya_kl@mail.ru
homepage: https://csbg-nsk.ru/unu_herbarium

Nataliya Kovtonyuk
metadata author
position: Head of research group USU-Herbarium CSBG
Central Siberian Botanical Garden SB RAS
Zolotodolinskaya Str., 101
Novosibirsk
630090
Novosibirskaya obl.
RU
Telephone: +79529365495
email: knat2008@yandex.ru
homepage: https://csbg-nsk.ru/kovtonyuk_nk
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4018-6634

Irina Han
metadata author
position: main engineer
Central Siberian Botanical Garden SB RAS
Zolotodolinskaya Str., 101
Novosibirsk
630090
Novosibirskaya obl.
RU
email: irahan81@gmail.com
homepage: http://csbg-nsk.ru/unu_herbarium
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8385-5247

Evgeniya Gatilova
metadata author
position: main specialist
Central Siberian Botanical Garden SB RAS
Zolotodolinskaya Str., 101
Novosibirsk
630090
Novosibirskaya obl.
RU
email: zhenya_kl@mail.ru
homepage: http://csbg-nsk.ru/unu_herbarium
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9478-0244

Nataliya Kovtonyuk
administrative point of contact
position: Senior Researcher
Central Siberian Botanical Garden SB RAS
Zolotodolinskaya Str., 101
Novosibirsk
630090
Novosibirskaya obl.
RU
email: knat2008@yandex.ru
homepage: https://csbg-nsk.ru/kovtonyuk_nk
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4018-6634

Irina Han
programmer
position: main engineer
Central Siberian Botanical Garden SB RAS
Zolotodolinskaya Str., 101
Novosibirsk
630090
Novosibirskaya obl.
RU
email: irahan81@gmail.com
homepage: http://csbg-nsk.ru/unu_herbarium
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8385-5247

Evgeniya Gatilova
processor
position: main specialist
Central Siberian Botanical Garden SB RAS
Zolotodolinskaya Str., 101
Novosibirsk
630090
Novosibirskaya obl.
RU
email: zhenya_kl@mail.ru
homepage: http://csbg-nsk.ru/unu_herbarium
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9478-0244

Nataliya Kovtonyuk
administrative point of contact
position: Head of research group USU-Herbarium CSBG
Central Siberian Botanical Garden SB RAS
Zolotodolinskaya Str., 101
Novosibirsk
630090
Novosibirskaya obl.
RU
Telephone: +79529365495
email: knat2008@yandex.ru
homepage: https://csbg-nsk.ru/kovtonyuk_nk
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4018-6634

Irina Han
administrative point of contact
position: main engineer
Central Siberian Botanical Garden SB RAS
Zolotodolinskaya Str., 101
Novosibirsk
630090
Novosibirskaya obl.
RU
email: irahan81@gmail.com
homepage: http://csbg-nsk.ru/unu_herbarium
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8385-5247

Evgeniya Gatilova
administrative point of contact
position: main specialist
Central Siberian Botanical Garden SB RAS
Zolotodolinskaya Str., 101
Novosibirsk
630090
Novosibirskaya obl.
RU
email: zhenya_kl@mail.ru
homepage: http://csbg-nsk.ru/unu_herbarium
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9478-0244