Russian Arctic Vegetation Archive – a new database of plant community composition and environmental conditions

The goal of the Russian Arctic Vegetation Archive is to unite and harmonize data of plot-based plant species and their abundance, vegetation structure and environmental variables from the Russian Arctic (including historical Soviet data). This database can be used to assess the status of the Russian Arctic vegetation and as a baseline to assess biodiversity changes in the future. The archive can be used for scientific studies as well as to inform nature protection and restoration efforts., The detailed description of the methodology could be found in the data paper: Zemlianskii, V., Ermokhina, K., Schaepman-Strub, G., Matveyeva, N., Troeva, E., Lavrinenko, I., Petrzhik, N., Telyatnikov, M., Pospelov, I., Koroleva, N., Leonova, N., Lapina. A., Korolev, D., Khitun, O., Kadetov, N. Lavrinenko, O., Kurysheva, M., Gunin, Y., Kholod, S., Kudr, E. & Plekhanova, E., (2023). Russian Arctic Vegetation Archive – a new database of plant community composition and environmental conditions. Global Ecology and Biogeography. , The full description of the datasets and the data statistics are available on the Russian Arctic Vegetation Archive website (https://avarus.space/). We encourage you to use the website for communication with the datasets authors and AVA-RU team.
To properly reference the datasets, it is necessary and sufficient to provide citations for both the original publications and the AVA-RU data paper, which should be cited as follows:
Zemlianskii, V., Ermokhina, K., Schaepman-Strub, G., Matveyeva, N., Troeva, E., Lavrinenko, I., Petrzhik, N., Telyatnikov, M., Pospelov, I., Koroleva, N., Leonova, N., Lapina. A., Korolev, D., Khitun, O., Kadetov, N. Lavrinenko, O., Kurysheva, M., Gunin, Y., Kholod, S., Kudr, E. & Plekhanova, E., (2023). Russian Arctic Vegetation Archive – a new database of plant community composition and environmental conditions. Global Ecology and Biogeography, (issue number and pages)., # Russian Arctic Vegetation Archive open-access data

The goal of the Russian Arctic Vegetation Archive (AVA-RU) is to unite and harmonize data of plot-based plant species and their abundance,
vegetation structure and environmental variables from the Russian Arctic (including historical Soviet data). This database can be used to assess the status of the Russian Arctic vegetation and as a baseline to document biodiversity changes in the future. The archive can be used for scientific studies as well as to inform nature protection and restoration efforts.

## Description of the Data and file structure

Each AVA-RU dataset consists of 2 files:

* Note: The species data tables consist of the header (rows 1-10) and species data (rows 10+). The header data contains some empty cells, including a completely empty row 7 that is added for better visual readability. It is recommended to remove rows 1-7 of the header before doing quantitative analysis.
* Habitat data: CSV file containing a corre...

俄罗斯北极植被档案（Russian Arctic Vegetation Archive, AVA-RU）的宗旨是整合并标准化来自俄罗斯北极地区的基于样方的植物物种及其多度、植被结构与环境变量数据（涵盖苏联时期的历史数据）。该数据库可用于评估俄罗斯北极植被现状，并作为未来评估生物多样性变化的基准基线。该档案既可用于科学研究，也可为自然保护与修复工作提供决策参考。该数据集的方法学详细说明可参见下述数据论文：Zemlianskii, V., Ermokhina, K., Schaepman-Strub, G., Matveyeva, N., Troeva, E., Lavrinenko, I., Petrzhik, N., Telyatnikov, M., Pospelov, I., Koroleva, N., Leonova, N., Lapina, A., Korolev, D., Khitun, O., Kadetov, N., Lavrinenko, O., Kurysheva, M., Gunin, Y., Kholod, S., Kudr, E. & Plekhanova, E.（2023）. 俄罗斯北极植被档案——一套全新的植物群落组成与环境条件数据库. 《全球生态与生物地理学（Global Ecology and Biogeography）》。数据集的完整描述与数据统计信息可登录俄罗斯北极植被档案官网（https://avarus.space/）查阅。我们鼓励您通过该平台与数据集作者及AVA-RU团队进行沟通联络。若需对该数据集进行规范引用，需同时标注原始文献与AVA-RU数据论文，引用格式如下：Zemlianskii, V., Ermokhina, K., Schaepman-Strub, G., Matveyeva, N., Troeva, E., Lavrinenko, I., Petrzhik, N., Telyatnikov, M., Pospelov, I., Koroleva, N., Leonova, N., Lapina, A., Korolev, D., Khitun, O., Kadetov, N., Lavrinenko, O., Kurysheva, M., Gunin, Y., Kholod, S., Kudr, E. & Plekhanova, E.（2023）. 俄罗斯北极植被档案——一套全新的植物群落组成与环境条件数据库. 《全球生态与生物地理学（Global Ecology and Biogeography）》[需补充卷期及页码]。# 俄罗斯北极植被档案开放获取数据
俄罗斯北极植被档案（AVA-RU）的宗旨是整合并标准化来自俄罗斯北极地区的基于样方的植物物种及其多度、植被结构与环境变量数据（涵盖苏联时期的历史数据）。该数据库可用于评估俄罗斯北极植被现状，并作为未来记录生物多样性变化的基准基线。该档案既可用于科学研究，也可为自然保护与修复工作提供决策参考。

### 数据与文件结构说明
每套AVA-RU数据集包含2个文件：
* 注意：物种数据表包含表头（第1-10行）与物种数据（第10行及以后）。表头数据中存在部分空单元格，其中第7行为完全空行，用于优化视觉可读性。建议在开展定量分析前删除表头的第1-7行。
* 生境数据：包含相关信息的逗号分隔值（CSV）文件……