Virtual Herbarium ALTB: collection of vascular plants of the Altai Mountain Country.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The herbarium of the South-Siberian Botanical Garden of Altai State University (ALTB) houses the largest collection of plants from the Altai Mountain Country (AMC), an area that extends across Russia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia and China. The collection of ALTB includes more than 450,00 specimens, making it the seventh largest in Russia and the fourth largest amongst Russian university herbaria. Altai State University (ASU), the home of ALTB, is one of the most important centres of academic education and research in Siberia and the Russian Far East. It is a sociocultural centre that provides a distinguished learning environment for undergraduate and graduate students in many scholarly and professional fields, meeting the needs of today's knowledge-based post-industrial society

SUBMITTER: Vaganov AV 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8292289 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature