Potential application of GBIF platform for flora inventory of Karaganda region

Faculty of Biology and Geography, Karaganda Buketov University, Karaganda, 100028, Kazakhstan

^* Corresponding author: margarita.ishmur@mail.ru

Abstract

The current biodiversity inventory has important scientific and practical implications for the country. In Kazakhstan, data on the flora of spore and vascular plants are outdated; there is a significant gap in assessing the current species composition of certain regions of Kazakhstan, including Central Kazakhstan (Karaganda and Ulytau regions). The problems of formation of a modern flora abstract are determined by the need to use the entire volume of accumulated information, both for individual findings of naturalists and multi-year collections in domestic and international herbarium collections. When carrying out research to analyze the current state of the flora of Karaganda region, the GBIF platform resources containing information on the biological diversity of flora and fauna were used. Data analysis showed that the platform has more than 130 thousand records of vascular plant finds for the territory of Kazakhstan, including 2241 records for Karaganda region with geo-referencing. The main funds containing the largest number of collections made on the territory of our region were determined. The stages of data processing and geo-linking of herbarium collections are defined. In general, a high potential for supplementing field collections with GBIF data to clarify the distribution of individual taxa and make range maps was determined.