A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution RAS supervises a project to collect information about the vegetation of the Arctic region in an accessible database (AVA) - https://avarus.space.
The purpose of the archive is to unify and standardize data collected by geobotanists. The initiative has been approved by the Working Group on the Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna and the International Arctic Science Committee.
At present, the Arctic Vegetation Archive contains about 30,000 geobotanical descriptions. Work on the Archive continues, the data is constantly updated.
The main part of the data is descriptions of the vegetation of Alaska, Canada and Scandinavia, stored in regional databases.
The archive and its individual parts are available for download via the web interface. To get the full functionality of the site, registration is required - https://avarus.space/ru/instructions/ Previously published data can be downloaded directly from the site, unpublished data - on the author’s permission.
Technical support is provided by the Department of Computer Engineering at MIEM HSE. The implementation was supported by the RFBR grant N 18-04-01010 A.
In the photo: the Gulf of Ob
Author of the photo: Ksenia Ermokhina, Ph.D., senior researcher, V.N. Sukachev laboratory of biogeocenology of IEE RAS