"Flora of Russia" on iNaturalist

The "Flora of Russia" project on iNaturalist (https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/flora-of-russia?tab=about) was launched 09 Jan 2019. It brought together professional scientists and amateur naturalists from all over the country. Over 16,000 people were involved in the data collection. As of 22 September 2021, the participants accumulated ca. 1,475,000 photo observations of 7,544 species of the Russian flora. This constitutes the largest dataset of open spatial data on the country’s biodiversity and a leading source of data on the current state of the national flora. About 89.6% of all project data are available under free licences (CC0, CC-BY, CC-BY-NC) through "iNaturalist Research-grade Observations" dataset (https://doi.org/10.15468/ab3s5x). The "Flora of Russia" project on iNaturalist consists of: 1) The old project "Flora of Russia" (https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/flora-of-russia), which includes verified observations and consists of 85 regional portals. The main page is not working due to extensive data growth. 2) "New Flora of Russia" (https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/new-flora-of-russia-novaya-flora-rossii). This is "flat" collection project without a regional structure. Ouworked as a fast simple substitute for the old project. 3) Three scoreboards with the statistics by the regions: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/stats-for-fl-orus-i, https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/stats-for-fl-orus-ii, https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/stats-for-fl-orus-iii 4) "Flora of Russia: lost-and-found" (https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/flora-rossii-poteryashki-flora-of-russia-lost-and-found). This page includes ca. 200-300 verified observations that did not accidentally get into the regional portals due to technical problems of the shapefiles 5) Backlog of the "Flora of Russia" (https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/flora-of-russia-needs-id-backlog). This project includes either unidentified or unverified observations. 6) "Gray zone" (https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/flora-of-russia-gray-zone) This project includes observations of cultivated plants and rejected data, i.e. observations that do not meet formal quality criteria. 7) "Flora of Russia" piggy bank (https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/kopilka-flory-rossii-uchim-mashinu). This is a dataset on 300 candidate species for inclusion in the next model of automatic identification.