Abstract
Occurrences of the invasive plant species Heracleum sosnowskyi Manden. in the Komi Republic (northeastern part of European Russia) were recorded and published in the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF http://www.gbif.org) using the RIVR information system (http://ib.komisc.ru/add/rivr/en). RIVR stands for “Rasprostranenie Invasionnyh Vidov Rastenij” [Occurrence of Invasion Plant Species]. This citizen science project aims at collecting occurrence data about invasive plant species with the help of citizen scientists. Information can be added by any user after a simple registration (concept) process. However, the data published in GBIF are provided only by professional scientists. The total study area is approximately 19,000 km2. The GBIF resource contains 10894 Heracleum sosnowskyi occurrence points, each with their geographical coordinates and photographs of the plants in the locus of growth. The preliminary results of species distribution modelling on the territory of European North-East Russia presented.
Highlights
The coordinates of the photographs obtained from a Car DVR Camera were corrected in the Quantum GIS Geographic Information System (QGIS) program (v 2.16.3 http://www.qgis.org, QGIS Development Team 2016) by shifting the group of points on the side of the road
All geotagged H. sosnowskyi images were uploaded to the online database “Occurrence of invasive plant species Heracleum sosnowskyi Manden.” (RIVR 2016)
The occurrence data of H. sosnowskyi were collected from an area of approximately 19, 000 km2 (Figure 1)
Summary
Distribution of the invasive plant species Heracleum sosnowskyi Manden... The resulting map was verified by a direct comparison with the data of the field observations of the habitats of this species and with the correlation simulation of their geographical distribution.
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