Description
The database contains information on the species of higher vascular plants registered on the territory of the Botanical Garden of Sumy State Pedagogical University named after A. S. Makarenko. The materials were partially included in the article published in the "Scientific Journal "Sloboda. Natural Sciences" (doi:10.32782/naturalspu/2024.2.2). The dataset contains data on the records of 442 specimens of higher vascular plants.
Data Records
The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 442 records.
This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.
Versions
The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.
How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Vakal A, Lytvynenko Y, Govorun O (2025). Higher vascular plants of the Botanical Garden of Sumy State Pedagogical University named after A. S. Makarenko. Version 1.0. Ukrainian Nature Conservation Group (NGO). Occurrence dataset. https://ukraine.ipt.gbif.no/resource?r=botanicalgardersumyvascularplants1&v=1.0
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is Ukrainian Nature Conservation Group (NGO). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 2da14016-a68e-48a1-80bc-c9100edc2c37. Ukrainian Nature Conservation Group (NGO) publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Participant Node Managers Committee.
Keywords
Occurrence; plants; trees; herbs; bushes; biodiversity; plant cover; botanical gardens; collection; non-native species; Ukraine; Sumy; Plantae; Observation
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Geographic Coverage
The dataset covers the records of plant species on the territory of Botanical Garden of Sumy State Pedagogical University named after A. S. Makarenko (Sumy region, Ukraine).
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [50.439, 34.477], North East [50.898, 34.779] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
The dataset consists exclusively of records of higher vascular plants (Tracheophyta).
| Kingdom | Plantae |
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| Phylum | Tracheophyta |
| Class | Magnoliopsida, Liliopsida, Polypodiopsida, Pinopsida, Ginkgoopsida |
Temporal Coverage
| Formation Period | 2000/2024 |
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Project Data
The full-scale war in Ukraine, started by the Russian Federation on February 24, 2022, has been going on for more than 2 years now. In addition to dire consequences for ordinary people, military and civilian infrastructure, agro-industrial complex and other spheres of life, there are also negative impacts on wildlife. In addition to environmental pollution and direct negative impacts on biodiversity, there is a loss of a large amount of valuable biodiversity data that has been collected by many biologists, conservationists, and national park and preserve staff due to these people being forced to evacuate. During the evacuation, they manage to save some of their work in the form of electronic data, field diaries, etc. In many cases, this is the result of a hasty evacuation. Data left in one or another format in the occupied territories will most likely be destroyed by the occupying forces during looting and shelling. Currently, the number of scientists who have become forced migrants reaches tens of people, and about 30% of national parks and smaller objects of the nature reserve fund are completely or partially occupied or destroyed (for example, the Serebrianskyi Forest). Premises of nature reserves and national parks, which were traditionally the centers of studying biodiversity in the south and east of Ukraine, were captured, looted, and the important information about nature accumulated in them was irrevocably destroyed. An example can be the manor of the Black Sea Biosphere Reserve, where due to flooding after the destruction of the Kakhovka dam in 2023, all printed Annals of Nature, which did not have digitized versions, were lost. However, even now, many scientists continue to work in Ukraine, collecting data on biodiversity, including territories that were de-occupied during the hostilities. The need to document and publish biodiversity records (fungi, plants and animals) for the global scientific community in the form of databases is important for many areas. Such studies, being relatively simple, allow to monitor the meetings of rare species, and therefore to analyze the state of populations within certain geographical units in a timely manner. Such data are indispensable for conducting research on geoinformational modeling of the distribution of species with the aim of more effective conservation. These data, due to their general availability, are important both for researchers from Ukraine and for scientists from all over the world. Today, due to the war, tens and hundreds of thousands of such registrations, presenting years of field work of researchers, may be irretrievably lost. Without this information, Ukraine will not be able to assess environmental losses, which is necessary for calculating the damage caused to our country and calculating the amount of reparations for the Russian aggressor. In other words, without having information, for example, about rare species, before the start of the war, it will be impossible to establish that they disappeared after it. One of the most well-known platforms for saving such data is the GBIF resource - Global Biodiversity Information Facility (https://www.gbif.org). The author of the project is one of the 5 people in Ukraine who have been documenting and creating data sets for uploading to the GBIF platform (through the organization-publisher Ukrainian Nature Conservation Group) for some time. Before the war, the number of published data amounted to more than 200,000 records. At the time of this application, the number of published records reaches almost 500,000. The goal of the project is to mobilize and digitize data on biodiversity registrations of Ukraine from scientists, conservationists and employees of the nature reserve fund, who became forced migrants and who, despite terrible pressure from the occupation forces, managed to save at least part of their records. It is also planned to collect records from people who continue to work in the field of biology and ecology at the moment in Ukraine. The project is a continuation of a similar project that was won and implemented during 2022-2023. As part of this project, 49,929 records (example: https://www.gbif.org/uk/dataset/791a0bbb-bf37-4ef5-b619-17e395334dfa) of biodiversity were collected and published from the entire territory of Ukraine, including the temporarily occupied territory (individual finds from the territories of other countries were also published). These data have been published in 16 datasets and are currently officially available on theGBIF platform. The findings were the result of the digitization of the dataset authors' own findings from previous years of research (the Chornobyl zone, the Azov region, the chalk outcrops of the Luhansk region, etc.), the digitization of literary sources that are currently only available in printed form (materials from the "Askania Nova" biosphere reserve, the results of geobotanical descriptions, "grey literature", etc.), collection of "citizen science" information. Based on the data published as part of the project, a number of scientific articles have been published, and several more are in the process of preparation. Biodiversity monitoring programs are ongoing in the deoccupied territories, which are based, among other things, on the data published as part of the previous project. They were also actively used during the assessment of the impact of the war on the environment (for example, during the study of the impact of the destruction of the Kakhovka HPP on the ecosystems below the Dnieper River and forecasting the possible consequences of this disaster for nature). During the new stage of the proposed project, it is planned to collect, digitalize and publish on GBIF (https://www.gbif.org/uk/publisher/ca2fd897-6108-4361-91f8-b39dc8d12d13) a total amount of 30,000 records, that were not previously published. These points will include the data from scientists who currently work in Ukraine. The data will cover entire territory of Ukraine with a species focus of deoccupied and occupied territories. All the data published within the project, will have open access for the global scientific community and Ukrainian scientists who work on the assessment of impact of war on Ukrainian biodiversity. The participants of the project (12 people) will be Ukrainian scientists (including young scientists who require special support), environmentalists and staff of objects of nature reserve fund. Also, special attention will be paid to the data collected from the objects of nature reserve fund that are situated near the areas of military actions in the north (Rivne, Zhytomyr, Kyiv, Chernihiv regions, that were places of active military actions in 2022), east (Sumy, Kharkiv, Luhansk, Donetsk regions) and south (Zaporizhzhia, Kherson, Mykolaiv, Dnipropetrovsk regions) areas of Ukraine. During the creation of the datasets, the participants will undergo special training in a form of webinars and individual consultations. Results of the project will include: published datasets, maps of the records covering the territory of Ukraine, number of citations of the data from the datasets in world scientific literature, number of trained people who will continue to collect and publish their data in the future.
| Title | "Continuation of preservation of data on biodiversity of Ukraine during Russian aggression" |
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| Funding | The project is funded by IWM Documenting Ukraine grant 2024. The funds are provided by The Institute for Human Sciences (Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen, IWM). The Institute for Human Sciences (Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen, IWM) is an institute for advanced study in the humanities and social sciences. Its exclusive purpose is to carry out scholarly research and teaching on current topics in contemporary history. |
The personnel involved in the project:
Sampling Methods
Field research was conducted during 2024. All collection and exhibition areas of the Botanical Garden were surveyed: arboretum, rock garden, rockery, rose garden, fruit garden, medicinal areas and areas of the economic zone. The route-diagnostic method was used as the main method. The research routes ran through the entire study area. The determination of the species affiliation of plants was carried out using special identifiers of Ukraine. The nomenclature of the identified species is given in "Vascular plants of Ukraine. A nomenclatural checklist".
| Study Extent | The Botanical Garden of Sumy State Pedagogical University named after A. S. Makarenko, has been an object of the nature reserve fund of the Sumy region since 1973. It is located on a well-drained territory with an area of 4.76 hectares on an elevated section of the right root bank of the Strilka River in Sumy city. The Botanical Garden's collection includes about 1,000 species of higher plants mainly grown in open ground. Of these, only a third are representatives of the local flora, and two-thirds are plant species from other regions of Ukraine and different natural and climatic zones. The botanical garden's plant collections also include species that are rare for the Sumy region or Ukraine: 4 plant species listed in the European Red List, 49 plant species listed in the Red Book of Ukraine, and 34 plant species that are included in the Regional Lists of rare plants of Sumy Region of Ukraine. We are sincerely grateful to the NGO “Ukrainian Nature Conservation Group” for help placing data in the GBIF system |
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| Quality Control | The author bears full responsibility for the quality of the data provided in the dataset. |
Method step description:
- Conducting studies and collecting samples within the Botanical Garden.
- Cameral data processing: identification of biota species using photographs, identification of fixed collected organisms using a stereomicroscope.
- Geodata processing using the QGis geographic information system.
- Compilation data into a dataset.
- Organizing of the dataset according to Darwin Core standards.
Bibliographic Citations
- Vakal, A. P., Budnik, S. A., Suyrova, I. O. (2017). Vydove riznomanittia roslyn nyzhnoho parku Botanichnoho sadu SumDPU imeni A. S. Makarenka [Species diversity of plants of the lower Park Botanical garden Sum SPU named after A. S. Makarenko]. Prirodničì nauki, Issue 14. pp. 6–14 [in Ukrainian].
- Vakal, A. P., Mironets, L. P., Budnik, S. A., Lytvynenko, Yu. I. (2021). Rol navchalno-naukovoho tsentru «Botanichnyi sad SumDPU imeni A.S. Makarenka» v ekolohichnomu vykhovanni uchnivskoi molodi [The role of Educational and Scientific Center «Botanical Garden of SSPU named after A. S. Makarenko» in ecological of pupils' youth]. Topical Issues of Natural Science and Mathematics Education, Issue 1(17), pp. 5–12 [in Ukrainian]. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5295649
- Lytvynenko, Yu.I., Soroka, V.V. (2013). Fitopatohenni hryby botanichnoho sadu Sumskoho derzhavnoho pedahohichnoho universytetu im. A.S. Makarenka [Phytopathogenic fungi of the botanical garden of the Sumy State Pedagogical University named after A.S. Makarenko]. Current problems of environmental research: Proceedings of the 5th International scientific conference, May 23-25, 2013, Sumy / Ed. by A. Kornus, L. Mironets, Yu. Lytvynenko et al. Sumy: SSPU named after A.S. Makarenko, pp. 282–285. [in Ukrainian].
- Lytvynenko Yu., Vakal A., Stepanets I. Phytopathogenic micromycetes of the Botanical Garden of Sumy State Pedagogical University named after A. S. Makarenka. Sloboda Scientific Journal. Natural Sciences. 2024. Issue 2. pp. 16–23. [in Ukrainian]. https://doi.org/10.32782/naturalspu/2024.2.2
Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | https://ukraine.ipt.gbif.no/resource?r=botanicalgardersumyvascularplants1 |
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