Simonov Evgeniy, Kuranova Valentina N, Lisachov Artem, Yartsev Vadim V, Bogomolova Irina N
Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences Moscow Russia.
University of Tyumen, Institute of Environmental and Agricultural Biology (X-BIO), Tyumen, Russia University of Tyumen, Institute of Environmental and Agricultural Biology (X-BIO) Tyumen Russia.
Biodivers Data J. 2022 Apr 14;10:e82436. doi: 10.3897/BDJ.10.e82436. eCollection 2022.
West Siberia is a large region in North Eurasia, which harbours multiple climatic zones, landscape types and biomes. Its amphibian fauna is characterised by a combination of European and Asian species. For many species, this region is the place where the limits of their global ranges are located (, , ). West Siberia also has at least two non-native amphibian species (, ). The exact ranges and patterns of distribution of the West Siberian amphibian species are poorly studied. The mapping of species ranges is important for the development of conservation measures and monitoring of invasive species is required to investigate their impacts on the natural ecosystems.
This work presents the most complete biogeographic and occurrence records database of the amphibians of West Siberia. To assemble the database, we digitised data from 190 published works, obtained data from major museum collections and from the data bank on the abundance and distribution of animals «Zoomonitor» by the Zoomonitoring laboratory of the Institute of Systematics and Ecology of Animals, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences. The database also includes original and partly unpublished data collected by the authors from 1975 to 2021, as well as quality-assessed citizen science data from the iNaturalist portal. In total, the database contains 2530 records for 11 species of amphibians, including the locality data, the observation date (when known) and the source of the observation (at least one of the following: literature reference, museum sample ID, observer's name, iNaturalist link).
西西伯利亚是北欧亚大陆的一个大区，拥有多种气候带、景观类型和生物群落。其两栖动物区系的特点是欧洲和亚洲物种的组合。对许多物种来说，该地区是其全球分布范围的边界所在之地（参考文献1、2、3）。西西伯利亚也至少有两种非本地两栖物种（参考文献4、5）。西西伯利亚两栖物种的确切分布范围和分布模式研究不足。物种分布范围的绘图对于制定保护措施很重要，并且需要对入侵物种进行监测，以调查它们对自然生态系统的影响。
这项工作展示了西西伯利亚两栖动物最完整的生物地理和出现记录数据库。为了汇编该数据库，我们将来自190篇已发表作品的数据数字化，从主要博物馆藏品以及俄罗斯科学院西伯利亚分院动物系统学与生态学研究所动物丰度与分布数据库“Zoomonitor”获取数据。该数据库还包括作者在1975年至2021年期间收集的原始和部分未发表的数据，以及来自iNaturalist门户网站的经过质量评估的公民科学数据。该数据库总共包含11种两栖动物的2530条记录，包括地点数据、观察日期（已知时）以及观察来源（至少以下之一：文献参考、博物馆样本ID、观察者姓名、iNaturalist链接）。
