Background The present-day demand for digital availability of distributional data in biodiversity studies requires a special effort in assembling and editing the data otherwise scattered in paper literature and herbarium collections, which can be poorly accessible or little understood to present-day users and especially automatic data processors. Our project on developing the information resource for the vascular plant flora of Murmansk Region, Russia, includes processing and making digitally available all the data on the taxonomy and distribution of this flora. So far, published distribution maps are limited to the old set in the Flora of Murmansk Region (published in 1953–1966) and the Red Data Book of Murmansk Region (ed. 2, published in 2014). These publications did not take into account the main part of the herbarium collections kept at the Kandalaksha Strict Nature Reserve, which are the basis for numerous local publications that appear scattered and, therefore, little accessible nowadays. New information We present a complete dataset of all holdings of vascular plants in the Herbarium of the Kandalaksha Strict Nature Reserve, totalling 10,218 specimens collected during 1947–2019, which are referable to 764 species and 19 subspecies. All specimens were georeferenced with the utmost precision available. This dataset offers a complete and dense coverage of the Nature Reserve's territory (islands and adjacent mainland coastal areas of the Barents and White Seas, Murmansk Region and Republic of Karelia, Russia); these data are little represented in herbarium collections elsewhere.

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俄罗斯坎达拉克沙严格自然保护区 (KAND) 的维管植物标本馆

背景 当今对生物多样性研究中分布数据的数字化可用性的需求需要特别努力来组装和编辑原本分散在纸质文献和植物标本馆收藏中的数据，这些数据对于当今的用户来说可能很难访问或了解甚少，尤其是自动数据处理器。我们开发俄罗斯摩尔曼斯克地区维管植物植物区系信息资源的项目包括处理并以数字方式提供有关该植物区系分类和分布的所有数据。到目前为止，已发布的分布图仅限于摩尔曼斯克地区植物群（1953-1966 年出版）和摩尔曼斯克地区红皮书（第 2 版，2014 年出版）的旧集。这些出版物没有考虑到保存在坎达拉克沙严格自然保护区的植物标本馆藏品的主要部分，而这些标本馆藏品是众多当地出版物的基础，这些出版物看起来很分散，因此现在很难获得。新信息我们提供了坎达拉克沙严格自然保护区植物标本馆所有维管植物馆藏的完整数据集，共收集了 10,218 个标本，这些标本在 1947 年至 2019 年间收集，可用于 764 个物种和 19 个亚种。所有标本都以可用的最大精度进行地理参考。该数据集完整而密集地覆盖了自然保护区的领土（巴伦支海和白海、摩尔曼斯克地区和俄罗斯卡累利阿共和国的岛屿和邻近大陆沿海地区）；这些数据在其他地方的植物标本馆收藏中很少出现。