Russian Biodiversity Collections : A Professional Opinion Survey

Biodiversity collections are important vehicles for protecting endangered wildlife in situations of adverse anthropogenic influence. In Russia, there are currently a number of institution- and museum-based biological collections, but there are no nation-wide centres of biodiversity collections. In this paper, we report on the results of our survey of 324 bioconservation, big-data, and ecology specialists from different regions of Russia in regard to the necessity to create several large national biodiversity centres of wildlife protection. The survey revealed specific goals that have to be fulfilled during the development of these centres for the protection and restoration of endangered wildlife species. The top three problems/tasks (topics) are the following: (1) the necessity to create large national centres for different types of specimens; (2) the full sequencing and creation of different "omic" (genomic, proteomic, transcriptomic, etc.) databases; (3) full digitisation of a biodiversity collection/centre. These goals may constitute a guideline for the future of biodiversity collections in Russia that would be targeted at protecting and restoring endangered species. With the due network service level, the translation of the website into English, and permission from the regulator (Ministry of Science and Higher Education of Russian Federation), it can also become an international project.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:13

Enthalten in:

Animals : an open access journal from MDPI - 13(2023), 24 vom: 07. Dez.

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Alpeeva, Elena V [VerfasserIn]
Sharova, Natalia P [VerfasserIn]
Sharov, Konstantin S [VerfasserIn]
Vorotelyak, Ekaterina A [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Biobank
Biodiversity centre
Biodiversity collection
Biological conservation
Endangered species
Extinction
Journal Article
Wildlife restoration

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Date Revised 25.12.2023

published: Electronic

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.3390/ani13243777

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM366274740