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<journal-meta>
<journal-id>1870-3453</journal-id>
<journal-title><![CDATA[Revista mexicana de biodiversidad]]></journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title><![CDATA[Rev. Mex. Biodiv.]]></abbrev-journal-title>
<issn>1870-3453</issn>
<publisher>
<publisher-name><![CDATA[Instituto de Biología]]></publisher-name>
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<article-id>S1870-34532022000100419</article-id>
<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.22201/ib.20078706e.2022.93.4044</article-id>
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<article-title xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[Main collectors of Mexico&#8217;s vascular plants: a catalogue built from online databases]]></article-title>
<article-title xml:lang="es"><![CDATA[Principales colectores de las plantas vasculares de México: un catálogo a partir de las bases de datos en línea]]></article-title>
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<contrib-group>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Murguía-Romero]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Miguel]]></given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="Aff"/>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Ortiz]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Enrique]]></given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="Aff"/>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Serrano-Estrada]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Bernardo]]></given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="Aff"/>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Villaseñor]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[José Luis]]></given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="Aff"/>
</contrib>
</contrib-group>
<aff id="Af1">
<institution><![CDATA[,Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Instituto de Biología Departamento de Botánica]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[Coyoacán Ciudad de México]]></addr-line>
<country>Mexico</country>
</aff>
<aff id="Af2">
<institution><![CDATA[,SERES Sistemas Especializados  ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[Tecámac Estado de México]]></addr-line>
<country>Mexico</country>
</aff>
<pub-date pub-type="pub">
<day>00</day>
<month>00</month>
<year>2022</year>
</pub-date>
<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>00</day>
<month>00</month>
<year>2022</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>93</volume>
<copyright-statement/>
<copyright-year/>
<self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S1870-34532022000100419&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&amp;pid=S1870-34532022000100419&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_pdf&amp;pid=S1870-34532022000100419&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="en"><p><![CDATA[Abstract Databases of biological collections contain fundamental information for the study of biodiversity, hence the importance of their quality, which includes the data on collectors. For this purpose, a list of the main vascular plant collectors in Mexico was constructed to improve the quality of this information. A total of 3.7 million records of vascular plant specimens collected in Mexico were analyzed from the National System of Biodiversity Information (Sistema Nacional de Información sobre Biodiversidad; SNIB) of the Mexican National Commission for the Knowledge and Use of Biodiversity (Comisión Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad de México; Conabio) and the database of the National Herbarium of Mexico (Herbario Nacional de México; MEXU) of the Institute of Biology at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). A &#8220;main collector&#8221; was considered anyone with 500 or more unique collection numbers in the database. A total of 610 main collectors were identified, who together contributed 83% of the records of vascular plants collected in Mexico, and a standardized list of their names is presented. The list of names of main collectors of vascular plants in Mexico is a useful tool for the cleaning and extraction of information from biodiversity databases.]]></p></abstract>
<abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="es"><p><![CDATA[Resumen Las bases de datos de colecciones biológicas contienen información fundamental para el estudio de la biodiversidad, de allí la importancia de su calidad, entre ella los datos sobre los colectores. Con este fin se propuso construir una lista de los colectores principales de plantas vasculares de México que contribuya a elevar la calidad de esta información. Se analizaron 3.7 millones de registros de ejemplares de plantas vasculares recolectados en México, disponibles en el Sistema Nacional de Información sobre Biodiversidad (SNIB) de la Comisión Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad de México (Conabio) y la base de datos del Herbario Nacional de México (MEXU) del Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). Se consideró como &#8220;colector principal&#8221; aquel que en la base de datos registra 500 o más números de recolecta únicos. Se identificó un total de 610 colectores principales que realizaron 83% de las recolectas de plantas vasculares de México y se presenta una lista estandarizada de sus nombres. La lista de nombres de los colectores principales de plantas vasculares de México es una herramienta útil en la limpieza y extracción de información de las bases de datos sobre biodiversidad.]]></p></abstract>
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<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Biological collections]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Biodiversity informatics]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Collecting effort]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Data cleaning]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Floristics]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[Colecciones biológicas]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[Informática de la biodiversidad]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[Esfuerzo de colecta]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[Limpieza de datos]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[Florística]]></kwd>
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