Lanna João M, da Silva Luís Alexandre E, Morim Marli P, Leitman Paula M, Queiroz Natália O, Filardi Fabiana L R, Dalcin Eduardo C, Oliveira Felipe A, Forzza Rafaela C
Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Biodivers Data J. 2018 Mar 12(6):e22757. doi: 10.3897/BDJ.6.e22757. eCollection 2018.
This paper provides a quantitative and general description of the Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden herbarium (RB) dataset. Created over a century ago, the RB currently comprises ca. 750,000 mounted specimens, with a strong representation of Brazilian flora, mainly from the Atlantic and Amazon forests. Nearly 100% of these specimens have been entered into the database and imaged and, at present, about 17% have been geo-referenced. This data paper is focused exclusively on RB's exsiccatae collection of land plants and algae, which is currently increasing by about twenty to thirty thousand specimens per year thanks to fieldwork, exchange and donations. Since 2005, many national and international projects have been implemented, improving the quality and accessibility of the collection. The most important facilitating factor in this process was the creation of the institutional system for plants collection and management, named JABOT. Since the RB is continuously growing, the dataset is updated weekly on SiBBr and GBIF portals.
The most represented environments are the Atlantic and Amazon forests, a biodiversity hotspot and the world's largest rain forest, respectively. The dataset described in this article contains the data and metadata of plants and algae specimens in the RB collection and the link to access the respective images. Currently, the RB data is publicly available online at several biodiversity portals, such as our institutional database JABOT, the Reflora Virtual Herbarium, the SiBBr and the GBIF portal. However, a description of the RB dataset as a whole is not available in the literature.
本文对里约热内卢植物园标本馆（RB）数据集进行了定量和全面的描述。该标本馆创建于一个多世纪以前，目前包含约75万份装订标本，其中巴西植物区系占比很大，主要来自大西洋森林和亚马逊森林。这些标本中近100%已录入数据库并进行了成像，目前约17%已进行地理定位。本数据论文专门聚焦于RB的陆地植物和藻类腊叶标本收藏，由于野外工作、交换和捐赠，该收藏目前每年增加约二万至三万份标本。自2005年以来，实施了许多国家和国际项目，提高了收藏的质量和可及性。这一过程中最重要的推动因素是创建了名为JABOT的植物收藏和管理制度体系。由于RB在持续发展，该数据集每周在SiBBr和GBIF门户网站上更新。
分布最广的环境分别是大西洋森林和亚马逊森林，前者是生物多样性热点地区，后者是世界上最大的雨林。本文描述的数据集包含RB收藏中植物和藻类标本的数据及元数据，以及访问相应图像的链接。目前，RB数据在多个生物多样性门户网站上均可公开获取，如我们的机构数据库JABOT、虚拟植物标本馆Reflora、SiBBr和GBIF门户网站。然而，文献中尚无对RB数据集整体的描述。
