Fungal literature records database of the Northern West Siberia (Russia)

The mycological research in the Northern part of West Siberia stems from isolated studies in the beginning of the 20th century, but regular and systematic research dates back to the 1970-80s. Over the following decades several dozens of researches have worked in the area and more than four hundred scientific works have been published. FUngal Records Database of Northern West Siberia (FuNWS) was developed to accumulate the results of previous studies of species distributions. The FuNWS database includes 28 fields describing species name, publication source, herbarium number, date of sampling, locality information, vegetation, substrate, and others. The occurrences in the database were extracted from previously published works, no herbarium collections or other unpublished records were included in the database. Presently, the dataset includes about 22000 of fungal occurrences recorded in the region, reported from about 130 scientific publications. According to the database summary report, there are about 3358 species identified within the region up-to-date. The richest studied classes are Agaricomycetes (60%) and Lecanoromycetes (30%) with totally 25 classes represented.