Description
European steppes are among the most threatened ecosystems due to the conversion to arable land mostly. Abandonment or land acquisitions to protect nature may give a chance for the passive recovery of steppes. We used an exceptional opportunity to study nearly 100 yrs of old-field succession chronosequence to assess the speed and overall effectiveness of such recovery. We performed the research in the largest European steppe protection site, the Askania-Nova Biosphere Reserve and its buffer zone, located in Southern Ukraine. To achieve a sufficient temporal scope, instead of long-term research, we apply an approach of substituting space for time, using old fields of different ages (Walker et al., 2010). The studied chronosequence was an exceptional opportunity as permanent abandonment is rarely observed in the studied region (usually after several to dozen of years the land is ploughed again). In this study, we wanted to assess the rate and overall effectiveness of passive recovery on old fields in the European grass steppe. To get a comprehensive picture of steppe recovery we explored not only plant species diversity patterns and basic soil parameters, but also functional trait responses, which provide insights into the mechanisms triggering community assembly and succession processes (Kahmen and Poschlod, 2004). This dataset contains 2413 occurrences of 172 species (135 vascular plants, 34 bryophytes, 3 lichens) recorded in 72 normal vegetation plots during the May 2017. The sampled locations represent one of types of grasslands - steppes focused on classes Festuco-Brometea. The nomenclature of the dataset follows “Ukrainian Plant Trait Database: UkrTrait v. 1.0” - (Vynokurov et al. 2024), “An annotated checklist of bryophytes of Europe, Macaronesia and Cyprus” (Hodgetts et al. 2020) and “The fourth checklist of Ukrainian Lichen-forming and lichenicolous fungi with analysis of current additions” (Kondratyuk et al. 2021), with minor edits.
Enregistrements de données
Les données de cette ressource données d'échantillonnage ont été publiées sous forme d'une Archive Darwin Core (Darwin Core Archive ou DwC-A), le format standard pour partager des données de biodiversité en tant qu'ensemble d'un ou plusieurs tableurs de données. Le tableur de données du cœur de standard (core) contient 72 enregistrements.
2 tableurs de données d'extension existent également. Un enregistrement d'extension fournit des informations supplémentaires sur un enregistrement du cœur de standard (core). Le nombre d'enregistrements dans chaque tableur de données d'extension est illustré ci-dessous.
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Comment citer
Les chercheurs doivent citer cette ressource comme suit:
Shapoval V, Moysiyenko I, Dembicz I, Zachwatowicz M, Sudnik-Wójcikowska B, Zagorodniuk N (2024). Records of vascular plants, mosses and lichens at the former arable fields different ages and virgine steppe in within Askania-Nova Biosphere Reserve and in its buffer zone. Version 1.8. Kherson State University. Samplingevent dataset. https://ukraine.ipt.gbif.no/resource?r=aska_monitoring&v=1.8
Droits
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L’éditeur et détenteur des droits de cette ressource est Kherson State University. Ce travail est sous licence Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0.
Enregistrement GBIF
Cette ressource a été enregistrée sur le portail GBIF, et possède l'UUID GBIF suivante : 7ab1cc39-edb6-4ce7-97a9-6b04454d3362. Kherson State University publie cette ressource, et est enregistré dans le GBIF comme éditeur de données avec l'approbation du Participant Node Managers Committee.
Mots-clé
Samplingevent; steppe; biodiversity
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Couverture géographique
Askania-Nova Biosphere Reserve and its buffer zone, Kherson administrative Regions, Southern Ukraine
| Enveloppe géographique | Sud Ouest [46,441, 33,442], Nord Est [47,025, 34,233] |
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Couverture taxonomique
All vascular plants, lichens and bryophytes and almost all mosses were identified to species. Some mosses were identified to genus.
| Kingdom | Plantae, Fungi |
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| Phylum | Ascomycota, Bryophyta, Marchantiophyta, Tracheophyta |
Couverture temporelle
| Date de début | 2017-05-20 |
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| Date de début | 2017-05-21 |
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| Date de début | 2017-05-26 |
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Données sur le projet
Pas de description disponible
| Titre | Advocating for the environment and local communities of the future for the former Kakhovka Reservoir and Kakhovka HPP |
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| Financement | The dataset was prepared with the support of the Advocating for the environment and local communities of the future for the former Kakhovka Reservoir and Kakhovka HPP (2023-2024, FONDATION DE FRANCE) |
Méthodes d'échantillonnage
We sampled vegetation and soil in a virgin (never ploughed) grass steppe (VS) and in old fields (OFs) abandoned for 6, 15, 31, 50 and ca. 97 yrs. We conducted field sampling in May 2017. On each of the five old fields and within the virgin steppe we established a transect of approx. 600 m length. Transects were located parallel to the reserve border to minimize the effect of different distances from potential diaspore sources for the studied vegetation recovery patterns. We collected vegetation data and soil samples from 12 square-shaped 10-m2 plots regularly distributed along each transect. In every plot, we assessed the percent cover of each vascular plant, bryophyte and lichen species. Besides, we took a mixed soil sample from the upper soil layer (depth 5-15 cm) consisting of sub-samples collected at five evenly-distributed points within the plot. Due to the flatness of the area all of the 72 sampled plots were located at almost the same elevation (30-31 m a. s. l.) and they had a slope of zero.
| Etendue de l'étude | We conducted field sampling within Askania-Nova Biosphere Reserve and in its buffer zone. The reserve is located in Southern Ukraine, in the Kherson Region. Climate of the region is hot-summer fully humid warm temperate climate (Cfa) according to Köppen-Geiger classification (Kottek et al., 2006) with an average annual precipitation of 398 mm and a mean annual temperature of 9.8°C with the coldest month (February) mean at -1.8°C and warmest (July) at 23.0°C (weather station in Askania-Nova, period 1910-2010). In Askania-Nova Biosphere Reserve steppe ecosystem has been preserved in its primary natural form on an area of 110 km2 (Boiko, 1998), which is one of the largest patches of the virgin steppe in Europe. The reserve protects the West Pontic grass steppe (Bohn et al., 2004), which is dominated by tussock-forming grasses (mostly from genera Stipa, Festuca, and Koeleria) but non-tussock-forming grasses, as well as sedges and non-graminoid plants greatly contribute to the overall plant diversity. The reserve is located within a vast, flat loess plain with max. 13.3 m of elevation difference. The prevailing type of soil of the reserve is dark-chestnut residual solonetz with low humus content (Polupan et al., 2005) classified in Soil Atlas of Europe (2005) as Haplic Kastanozems. |
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| Contrôle qualité | Some specimens of the vascular plants were collected as herbarium for determination and verification after the fieldwork. After digitizing the data, we harmonised the taxonomic information according to the nomenclature sources: for vascular plants Ukrainian Plant Trait Database: UkrTrait v. 1.0” - (Vynokurov et al. 2024). for bryophytes - An annotated checklist of bryophytes of Europe, Macaronesia and Cyprus (Hodgetts et al. 2020) and “The fourth checklist of Ukrainian Lichen-forming and lichenicolous fungi with analysis of current additions” (Kondratyuk et al. 2021), with minor edits. Then we used GBIF Backbone Taxonomy (GBIF species matching tool: https://www.gbif.org/tools/species-lookup) for the taxonomic check and implemented minor corrections of species names regarding misprints and problematic taxa to avoid misinterpretation. We additionally checked and verified the header data of vegetation plots (Event Core and GBIF Relevé Extension, Occurrence Extension) using OpenRefine (https://openrefine.org/) and QGIS 3.38 (https://qgis.org) for quality control. |
Description des étapes de la méthode:
- Site selection, field research.
- Identification of herbarium specimens of vascular plants, lichens, bryophytes.
- Digitizing the field data forms.
- Data checking and cleaning.
- Transformation of the dataset according to the Darwin Core standards.
- Taxonomic check, final quality control.
Citations bibliographiques
- Boiko M (ed) (1998) Pryroda Khersonskoi Oblasti. Fizyko-geographichnyi narys (Ukrainian). Fitosociocentr, Kherson.
- Dembicz, I., Zachwatowicz, M., Moysiyenko, I., Shapoval, V., Smreczak, B., Zagorodniuk, N., Sudnik-Wójcikowska, B. (2020). The aftermath of transformation - rapid functional but slow species diversity recovery in former arable fields. A study of grass steppe vegetation, Southern Ukraine // Landscape Science and Landscape Ecology: Considering Responses to Global Challenges [Electronic resource] : Book of Abstracts of the 1st International IALE-Russia online conference, Moscow, 14-18 September 2020 / Ed. A.V. Khoroshev, T.I. Kharitonova – Moscow : Faculty of Geography, Lomonosov Moscow State University, 2020. – P.142.
- Dembicz, I., Zachwatowicz, M., Moysiyenko, I., Shapoval, V., Smreczak, B., Zagorodniuk, N. et al. (2023) Rapid functional but slow species diversity recovery of steppe vegetation on former arable fields in southern Ukraine. Applied Vegetation Science, 26, e12756.
- Hodgetts, N., Söderström, L., Blockeel, T., Caspari, S., Ignatov, N., Konstantinova, N., Lockhart, B., Papp, C., Schröck, M., Sim-Sim, D., Bell, N., Bell, H., Blom, M., Bruggeman-Nannenga, M., Brugués, J., Enroth, K., Flatberg, R., Garilleti, L., Hedenäs, D., Roseggergasse, U. 2020. An annotated checklist of bryophytes of Europe, Macaronesia and Cyprus. Journal of Bryology 42: 1–116. https://doi.org/10.1111/avsc.12756
- Kondratyuk, S.Ya., Popova, L.P., Khodosovtsev, O.Y., Lőkös, L., Fedorenko, N.M., Kapets, N.V. 2021. The fourth checklist of Ukrainian Lichen-forming and lichenicolous fungi with analysis of current additions. Acta Botanica Hungarica 63 (1–2): 97–163.
- Kottek, M., Grieser, J., Beck, C., Rudolf, B. and Rubel, F. (2006) World map of the Köppen-Geiger climate classification updated. Meteorologische Zeitschrift, 15, 259-263.
- Kahmen, S. Poschlod, P. (2004) Plant functional trait responses to grassland succession over 25 years. Journal of Vegetation Science, 15, 21–32. http://www.jstor.org/stable/3236491
- Moysiyenko, I., Shapoval, V., Zagorodniuk, N., Dembicz, I., Sudnik-Wójcikowska, B., Zachwatowicz, M., Smreczak, B. Comparative analyses of the flora, vegetation and soil of fallows of different age in the Askania-Nova Biosphere Reserve (Southern Ukraine). 2019 IAVS Abstract of 62nd Annual Symposium "Vegetation Science and Biodiversity Research" (July 14 - 19, 2019, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany). – Bremen: IAVS, 2019. P. 172.
- Polupan, M.I., Solovey, V.B. Velychko, V.A. (2005) Klasyficatsiya gruntiv Ukrainy [Ukraine Soil Classification], Kyiv: 300 (in Ukrainian).
- Vynokurov, D, Borovyk, D, Chusova, O, Davydova, A, Davydov, D, Danihelka, J, Dembicz, I, Iemelianova, S, Kolomiiets, G, Moysiyenko, I, Shapoval, V, Shynder, O, Skobel, N, Buzhdygan, O, Kuzemko, A (2024) Ukrainian Plant Trait Database: UkrTrait v. 1.0. Biodiversity Data Journal 12: e118128. ttps://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.12.e118128
- Walker, L.R., Wardle, D.A., Bardgett, R.D. and Clarckson, B.D. (2010) The use of chronosequences in studies of ecological succession and soil development. Journal of Ecology, 98, 725–736.
Métadonnées additionnelles
| Identifiants alternatifs | 7ab1cc39-edb6-4ce7-97a9-6b04454d3362 |
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| https://ukraine.ipt.gbif.no/resource?r=aska_monitoring |