Vascular plant collection

Occurrence Spécimen
Dernière version Publié par National Museum of Natural History, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences le mai 20, 2025 National Museum of Natural History, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

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Description

The vascular plant collection of the Herbarium at the National Museum of Natural History in Sofia was established in 1974 and currently consists of nearly 6000 accessioned specimens and over 15000 specimens in its backlog collected mainly from Bulgaria. In 2020 the collections were moved to new storage, where the specimens have been stored under appropriate conditions. Currently, the collection is undergoing a reorganisation and digitisation of the herbarium specimens has been underway as part of the Distributed System of Scientific Collections (DiSSCo) in Bulgaria (DiSSCo-BG) since 2022.

Enregistrements de données

Les données de cette ressource occurrence ont été publiées sous forme dune Archive Darwin Core (Darwin Core Archive ou DwC-A), le format standard pour partager des données de biodiversité en tant quensemble dun ou plusieurs tableurs de données. Le tableur de données du cœur de standard (core) contient 4 791 enregistrements.

1 tableurs de données dextension existent également. Un enregistrement dextension fournit des informations supplémentaires sur un enregistrement du cœur de standard (core). Le nombre denregistrements dans chaque tableur de données dextension est illustré ci-dessous.

Occurrence (noyau)
4791
Multimedia 
699

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Versions

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Comment citer

Les chercheurs doivent citer cette ressource comme suit:

Herbarium of the National Museum of Natural History, BAS (2025). Vascular plant collection. Version 1.48. National Museum of Natural History, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Occurrence dataset. https://cloud.gbif.org/eca/resource?r=nmnhs_botany_collection&v=1.48

Droits

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L’éditeur et détenteur des droits de cette ressource est National Museum of Natural History, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Ce travail est sous licence Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0.

Enregistrement GBIF

Cette ressource a été enregistrée sur le portail GBIF, et possède lUUID GBIF suivante : 663e0ec0-7243-48bc-a0dd-55d1ed2224e7.  National Museum of Natural History, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences publie cette ressource, et est enregistré dans le GBIF comme éditeur de données avec lapprobation du GBIF Bulgaria.

Mots-clé

Metadata; Specimen; vascular plant; herbarium; Bulgaria

Contacts

Herbarium of the National Museum of Natural History, BAS
Salza Palpurina
  • Conservateur
  • Curateur Des Données
  • Personne De Contact
  • Senior Assistant
National Museum of Natural History, Sofia
  • 1 Tsar Osvoboditel blvd.
1000 Sofia
BG
Nadeja Apostolova-Stoyanova
  • Personne De Contact
  • Botanist
National Museum of Natural History, Sofia
  • 1 Tsar Osvoboditel blvd.
1000 Sofia
BG
Nadejda Apostolova-Stoyanova
  • Curateur Des Données
  • Botanist
National Museum of Natural History, Sofia
  • 1 Tsar Osvoboditel blvd.
1000 Sofia
BG

Couverture géographique

Bulgaria, the Balkan peninsula

Enveloppe géographique Sud Ouest [39,915, 20,521], Nord Est [44,031, 28,567]

Couverture taxonomique

Vascular plants

Kingdom Plantae
Phylum Tracheophyta
Class Polypodiopsida, Liliopsida, Lycopodiopsida, Pinopsida, Magnoliopsida, Gnetopsida
Order Celastrales, Ephedrales, Geraniales, Dipsacales, Cucurbitales, Dioscoreales, Asterales, Aquifoliales, Ericales, Solanales, Poales, Malpighiales, Boraginales, Lamiales, Caryophyllales, Buxales, Lycopodiales, Zygophyllales, Rosales, Piperales, Commelinales, Brassicales, Sapindales, Gentianales, Pinales, Ophioglossales, Santalales, Cupressales, Crossosomatales, Alismatales, Selaginellales, Fagales, Ranunculales, Ceratophyllales, Asparagales, Myrtales, Polypodiales, Malvales, Nymphaeales, Proteales, Liliales, Osmundales, Equisetales, Fabales, Saxifragales, Cornales, Isoetales, Oxalidales, Apiales, Salviniales

Données sur le projet

The Distributed System of Scientific Collections (DiSSCo) is a new world-class Research Infrastructure (RI) for natural science collections. The DiSSCo RI works for the digital unification of all European natural science assets under common curation and access policies and practices. These aim to make the data easily Findable, more Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable (FAIR). As such, DiSSCo enables the transformation of a fragmented landscape of the crucial natural science collections into an integrated knowledge base that provides interconnected hard evidence on the natural world. DiSSCo represents the largest ever formal agreement between natural history museums, botanical gardens and collection-holding universities in the world. Mission Our mission is to bring up the major Bulgarian biodiversity collections into the Digital Era. As a part of the pan-European DiSSCo RI, we adhere at its mission, which is entirely valid for the present project. It is “to mobilise, unify and deliver biodiversity information at the scale, form and precision required by scientific communities; transforming a fragmented landscape into a coherent and responsive research infrastructure.” Taking into account the specificities of the conceptual and technological level of our collections, we formulate the following mission of DiSSCo- BG: to bring up the major Bulgarian biodiversity collections into the Digital Era. General objective Upgrade the technological, digital and human capacity level of the major biodiversity and geodiversity collections in Bulgaria maintained by IBER-BAS and NMNHS-BAS in order to increase the capacity of collections and collection-based research to meet the needs of the society of modern biodiversity science in line with the existing international standards and to support the efficient Bulgarian participation in the development of the pan-European RI DiSSCo.

Titre The Bulgarian Distributed System of Scientific Collections (DiSSCo-BG)
Financement [Ministry of Education and Science](https://web.mon.bg/en/)
Description du design Data is entered and managed in Specify 7. Quality checks (missing data, wrong dates, etc) and georeferencing are also made within the platform.

Les personnes impliquées dans le projet:

Salza Palpurina
Nadejda Apostolova-Stoyanova
Georgi Kunev
Snezhina Popova
Irina Gerasimova
  • Fournisseur De Contenu

Méthodes déchantillonnage

Most specimens were collected during floristic field studies of the corresponding collectors. Some floristic studies, e.g. those of [prof. Dimitar Dimitrov](https://www.nmnhs.com/dimitrov-dimitar-en.html), were done as part of the tasks associated with Environmental Impact Assessments. Some specimens were collected for identification vegetation surveys using phytosociological plots (relevés). Such are plots are coded as AAYY## (where AA stands for the abbreviation of the author, YY is the year of sampling, and ## is the successive plot number) and size is 16 to 100 sq.m. For example, SP1801 stands for the first plots sampled in 2018 by Salza Palpurina. Some specimens come from a [project for sampling kurgans (burial mounds) in Bulgaria](http://www.iber.bas.bg/?q=en/node/701), which has used nested sampling. In such cases, the code is as follows: kurgan_[ID]_[exposition: N, E, S, W]_[size:1, 25], or kurgan_ID_all, which means that the plan was surveyed out of the nested plots.

Etendue de létude Bulgaria, and adjacent countries
Contrôle qualité (1) Checking regularly the database in Specify using specifically designed queries for detecting missing or unusual values. (2) Reviewing flags and issues after publishing in GBIF.

Description des étapes de la méthode:

  1. Specimens received their first-ever catalogue number upon entering the information on their labels into the database, as the collection had not been catalogued prior to digitization. For the vascular plant collection, we adhere to a standardized format: BG-NMNHS-BOT-############. Some specimens received an additional alternative catalogue number which contains the same number but in a different format: BNHM-############ to match numbers in the corresponding publication.
  2. The information found on the labels, such as taxon name, locality, date of collection, and the names of collectors and determiners, was transcribed and translated into English before being entered into the database. Names of localities were transliterated using the Bulgarian Law for Transliteration. Names of administrative regions follow the EKATTEs.
  3. For the transcription of labels, we used two successive approaches: (1) In 2023, specimens were first imaged using mobile phone cameras (initial low-quality images), then information from the images was transcribed and entered, and the initial low-quality images were temporarily linked to their corresponding database records for quality assurance purposes and for matching the newly printed labels. (2) Since Jan 2024, we have adopted the following approach: first, creating a new record in the database to obtain a unique catalogue number, then writing this catalogue number on the specimen's voucher, and finally, transcribing information directly from the specimen into the database.
  4. The transcribed information, along with the assigned catalogue number, was subsequently used to generate new labels. If the specimen was revised in the meantime, the label would reflect the updated determination. Then labels are printed and mounted, and the voucher is imaged with all attributes (printed labels, color checker and a scale).
  5. Localities without GPS coordinates (mostly from before 2014) were georeferenced post hoc, typically using point locations with associated uncertainty reported in meters (dwc:coordinateUncertaintyInMeters). Georeferencing was done on an as-needed basis or when locality information was readily available, using sources such as BG Mountains online map (https://kade.si/) for most localities in Bulgaria—which includes historical map layers dating back to the 1930s with old Turkish toponyms—as well as mapy.cz and Google Earth for localities outside Bulgaria.

Données de collection

Nom de la collection Хербариума на НПМ-БАН: колекция Висши растения
Identifiant de collection https://scientific-collections.gbif.org/collection/814753b6-5e89-432e-96f5-1eea3f6ff8ef
Méthode de conservation des spécimens Dried and pressed

Métadonnées additionnelles

Publications that refer to specific specimens from the database: 1. Zlatić, G., Arapović, A., Martinović, I., ..., and Tina Vukušić. 2022. "Antioxidant Capacity of Herzegovinian Wildflowers Evaluated by UV–VIS and Cyclic Voltammetry Analysis" Molecules 27, no. 17: 5466. https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules27175466 2. Kunev (2024) A contribution to the vascular flora of Bulgaria: new species record and chorological update. Historia naturalis bulgarica 46 (2): 27–36. https://www.nmnhs.com/historia-naturalis-bulgarica/pdfs/000537000462024.pdf

Remerciements
Identifiants alternatifs 663e0ec0-7243-48bc-a0dd-55d1ed2224e7
https://cloud.gbif.org/eca/resource?r=nmnhs_botany_collection