A.A. Atingova, N.E. Votiakova. Opportunity and feature of conducting databases for animals and plants of lake Baikal.
Long-term researches of many learned, conducted on Baikal during last 100 years and touching all systematic ranks of organisms have shown, that the morphological dynamism of specific indications is the characteristic for animal in this lake. The question whether this dynamism is hound up with active processes of microevolution or will processes of hybridization of species, is widely discussed still nowadays by the scientists. However, the objectivity of variability of species has the of fixing of occurring processes with the increased accuracy and periodicity. Such works are begun in the Baikal Museum ISD SD RAS, where side by side with inventory making of available collections, now, the works on the collection and description of animals concerning all systematic groups of the Baikal flora and fauna are begun. A good method of the descriptions is parametrical databases. Such method enables to group and to systematize various indications attributes concerning geographical and ecodivision animal, their morphological indications, biochemical structure and other features concerning genetic structure, feed interrelations in community. The assembled and systematized, thus, data enable to reveal indicated species and indication and complex to approach to the rating of a status of an ecosystem as a whole. As a means of conducting databases we chose the program Access. This program is the most simple, convenient in circulation and has sufficient opportunities. The basic task of development of databases is the formation of a set of indications, which on the one hand as it is possible full and more precisely would reflect specificity of each species, on the other hand, would be brief and could be chosen by any inquiries on keywords. The development of a set of such indications now is carried out for diatom alga and such classes invertebrates as the Gastropoda, Oligochaeta, Gammaridae. In future is planned, that the databases with a set of morphological indications will serve for automatic definition of species. Besides, we assume to proceed(pass) to the automatic analysis of the images, for what the complex of software will be
necessary.
Baikal Museum ISD SD RAS. 664520, Irkutsk region, Listvianka, Academic street, № 1. Tel/faks (3952) 250-551. E-mail bm@irk.ru
K.S.BAIKOV1, N.B.ERMAKOV1, N.K.KOVTONYUK1, I.Yu.KOROPACHINSKY1, A.A. KRASNIKOV1, A.M. FEDOTOV2. Electronic atlas as the new tool in study of diversity of Siberian plants.
Model of the electronic atlas on Siberian plant diversity is elaborated. The atlas is filled on blocks: the nomenclature of plants, electronic catalogue of Siberian plants, Herbarium collections, collections of living plants of the Central Siberian botanical garden SD RAS etc. Nomenclature block provides general connection between tables and allows to search any information from other blocks of the atlas. The electronic catalogue contains more than 1900 documents on wild species from Siberia. Each document includes the Latin and Russian name of taxon, author of valid names and synonyms, brief morphological description, ecological features, distribution in administrative areas of Siberia (oblast, krai, republic), distribution outside of Siberia, references and others. The document can contain figures, photos, and their descriptions, links with the other tables. The system provides of search of any category of complexity. The information model of taxonomic revision of a genus or a family is developed on the example of genus Euphorbia. Their publication in an electronic form is realized. Thus, the electronic atlas represents the new form in development of integrative biological projects. The address of the resources is http://www-sbras.nsc.ru/win/elbib/atlas/flora. Scientific project is supported by Russian Foundation for Basic Research (99-07-90222) and SD RAS (integrative grant N 66)
1Central Siberian botanical garden, SD RAS, Zolotodolinskaya Str., 101, Novosibirsk, 630090, fax 3832-301986, e-mail: root@borgard.nsc.ru
2Institute of computing technologies, SD RAS, prosp. Ak. Lavrentyev, 6, Novosibirsk, 630090, fax 3832-341342, e-mail: fedotov@ict.nsc.ru.
S.L. ESYUNIN. A diversity, local biota and databases.
The inventory of a fauna and flora can not be the end in itself. The explanatory moment is more important. The problem of diversity chorology produces the special requirements to the collecting and accumulation of the information. The geographical registration unit should be minimized, but thus to have it is enough large for reflectance of all diversification of habitats. The given requirement is responded by concept of a local biota. The local biota is accepted as the taxonomical list in a geographical point reflecting all (in an ideal) diversification of biotope faunas. The use of units of a level of geographical regions is not informative. The binding of species finds to exact geographical coordinates (system GIS) does not decide a problem of the choice of modelling points. At the Perm University some databases (Urals spiders, Harvestman) and the new base (Urals arthopods) are executed and developed on the basis of the given ideology. All complex of the available information becomes attached to a limited number of local faunas. For each of modelling localities there is a complete set of geographical and climatic parameters. The buildings uniform databases on biota need a coordination of the lists of modelling local biotas. The basis for abjection of local biotas can be served by terrains of the reservations, scientific stations of the institutes, educational bases of the universities. Support: RFBR (grant № 00-04-49196) and Universities of Russia Programs (grant № 015.07.01.58).
Department of Invertebrate Zoology, Perm St. University, Bukirev str. 15, Perm, 614600, Russia. email: Sergei.Esyunin@psu.ru
P.V. KRESTOV. Use of floristic database for phytogeographical comparisons in the Far Eastern Asia.
The phytogeographical regionalization of the Asian Far East was performed with an aid of the database containing more than 26000 names of vascular plants. Database includes the three linked parts. First one contains the list of all known plant names, numerical codes and columns for accepted and obsolete names in different literary sources, including the list of standardized names accepted by author. This part is used for automatic standardization of nomenclature of the lists, which use the different species concept. The second part includes the information on distribution of species in the floristic regions accepted in Siberia, Far East, Mongolia, Northeast China and Hokkaido represented by dummy variables. The third part includes the species bio-taxonomical characteristics, such as growth form, life form, family and genera names, origin of a species in a region. This structure made the database easy to use in statistical analysis for phytogeographical comparisons. Cluster analysis, non-symmetrical similarity coefficients and non-metric multidimensional scaling were applied for comparison of floras of Far Eastern temperate Asia, stratified by taxonomical and growth form criteria. The phytogeographical lines found divide the Russian Far East into the three areas with a highest distances between the each other: the areas laying north and south of Stanovoy Mt. Range and the area including northern Japan, southern Sakhalin and southern Kuril islands.
Institute of Biology and Soil Sciences, Vladivostok, 690022, Russia, Tel. +7 4232 310405, Fax +7 4232 310193, email: krestov@vtc.ru
M.P. TENTJUKOV, M.S. PODOROV Computer-based system for inventory of regional floras. Computer-based system for inventory of regional floras with database is created.
The database contains 21700 species and 500 subspecies of vascular plants that belong to 1945 genus and 216 families presented in the book S.K. Czerepanov "Plantae vasculares Rossicae et civitatum collimitanearum (in limicis URSS olim)". S.Petropolis "Mir i Semia - XCV", MCMXCV - 992 p. Information in database is stored in special format, extracted and arranged by a special program. The program provides to users (geobotanists) who are not programmers the ability to create independently distributed programs with bound databases. Content of these databases is determined by researcher's tasks, and databases can contain up to 6000 species. Computer-based system for inventory of regional floras is located in the Web site of Institute of biology (http://ib.komisc.ru/pv/) and its ftp server (ftp://ib.komisc.ru/pub/IBPrograms/AutoSystems/PV/). RFBR-00-07-90021
Institute of Biology of Komi Scientific Centre of Ural Department RAS, Communisticheskaj 28, Syktivkar, 167982, Republic Komi, Russian, Tel. (8212) 421119, Fax (8212) 420163,E-mail tentukov@ib.komisc.ru; podorov@ib.komisc.ru
E. Vanden BERGHE. Marine Species Database for Eastern Africa (MASDEA).
MASDEA is a biogeographic-taxonomic database containing information on species from the western Indian Ocean, eastwards to 70 degrees longitude. Records are extracted from literature; preference is given to peer-refereed publications. The geographic resolution corresponds with country; some aggregate geographical units have been created to accommodate highly relevant works. Records are logged under the name the species was recorded in the publication; a pointer links back to the name currently in use for synonymised names. Misidentifications and other erroneous information are not deleted from the database, but flagged and a reference listed identifying the source of the corrected information. Other flags allow to indicate that a distribution record is doubtful, or that its only source within the publication was a map.
The objective of MASDEA is to provide biodiversity workers of the region with a standard list of species, including synonyms used for species in the region, and to provide a roadmap to the relevant literature.
The database was developed in 1996 at the RECOSCIX-WIO Project, based at the Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute (KMFRI). Now the database is maintained as a joint activity of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO, the KMFRI and the Flanders Marine Institute. The RDBMS used was Access 95; since then this has been upgraded to Access 2000. At the time of writing, the database contained 36,600 distribution records, and 16,000 taxonomic names.
Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ), Victorialaan 3, B-8400 Oostende, Belgium, Phone +32-(0)59-34 21 30, Fax +32-(0)59-34 21 31,
email Wardvdb@vliz.be
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