THE PROJECT OF CREATING A DATABASE ON GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OF RARE PLANT SPECIES IN THE OKA RIVER BASIN
The article examines the project of establishing an electronic database on geographical distribution of rare plant species of the Oka basin, initiated by the laboratory for the study and protection of biodiversity of the Russian state University named for S. A. Yesenin (Ryazan) in the framework of the major project - the creation of the red book of the Volga basin, and in the framework of an overall strategy for the conservation of biodiversity. Given the description of the designed database, the principle of using the base, the mechanism of mapping point locations of plants on the base. Discusses the possibilities for creating a similar database using GIS. Given the basic findings on the distribution of rare vascular plant species within the basin of the Oka.