Description
Steppe vegetation is very rare in the forest zone of Ukraine. Steppe communities occur mainly on steep natural slopes of southern exposure on river terraces or hills. Steppe vegetation is also well represented on cultural heritage sites. Given the extremely high level of anthropogenic transformation of the flora the role of small sites, including cultural heritage sites, in the conservation of flora diversity is growing. and cultural heritage sites (Moyisiyenko et al. 2024). Cultural heritage sites, such as ancient defensive earhtworks, could also be preserved as places for biodiversity conservation (Kuchera, 1987). Recently, studies in various countries have recognized the natural value of ancient defensive earhtworks and other cultural heritage sites (Kuchera, 1987). The research expedition is a survey in 2024 aimed at collecting high-quality data on the biodiversity of cultural heritage sites – kurhans, ancient earhtworks, ancient settlements . This dataset 399 contains occurrences of 150 vascular plants species recorded in 18 releves. The nomenclature of the dataset is as follows: “Ukrainian Plant Trait Database: UkrTrait v. 1.0” - (Vynokurov et al. 2024).
Data Records
The data in this sampling event 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 18 records.
2 extension data tables also exist. An extension record supplies extra information about a core record. The number of records in each extension data table is illustrated below.
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:
Moysiyenko I, Skobel N, Hrad Y, Dyrenko N, Shapoval V, Heinzel E, Panchenko S (2024). Records of vascular plants during the study of steppe vegetation in the forest zone (Ukraine). Version 1.0. Kherson State University. Samplingevent dataset. https://ukraine.ipt.gbif.no/resource?r=fsin&v=1.0
Rights
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The publisher and rights holder of this work is Kherson State University. 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: 5cea688b-a54b-40af-9dc9-5c441cf8ece8. Kherson State University publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Participant Node Managers Committee.
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Samplingevent
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Geographic Coverage
Kyiv Region, North Central Ukraine.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [46.175, 27.07], North East [52.803, 35.156] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
All vascular plants were identified to species
| Kingdom | Plantae, Tracheophyta |
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Temporal Coverage
| Start Date | 2024-05-16 |
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| Start Date | 2024-05-17 |
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| Start Date | 2024-09-06 |
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Project Data
Field research supported by projects "The project 'Creation of Protected Areas in Ukraine (2024–2025),' implemented by the Ukrainian Nature Conservation Group with the support of the Fondation de France." and Ukraine Future Leaders Program.
| Title | Creation of Protected Areas in Ukraine (2024–2025) |
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Sampling Methods
To obtain this data set, we collected 18 at the cultural heritage sites (kurgans, settlements, earthworks) and native slope of terrases of river Irpin of 10 m2. Sampling sites were selected to cover different types of natural and semi-natural open grasslands within the study area. In each plot, we recorded the presence of vascular plants (presence of shoots). Several ecological and structural parameters were recorded: cover Herbs In Percentage, cover Litter In Percentage, cover Shrubs In Percentage, cover Total In Percentage, cover Trees In Percentage, cover Shrubs In Percentage, inclination In Degrees, Aspect. The complete 10 relevés following the EDGG methodology (Dengler et al. 2021) will available in the GrassPlot database (Dengler et al. 2021).
| Study Extent | The dataset contains the co-distribution of vascular plants. The study area is located in the Kyiv Region, North-Central Ukraine. This area is located in the southern part of the Forest zone and northern part of Fores-Steppe zone. |
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| Quality Control | 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 "Ukrainian Plant Trait Database: UkrTrait v. 1.0" - (Vynokurov et al. 2024): for vascular plants, 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. 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. |
Method step description:
- Site selection, field research.
- Identification of herbarium specimens of vascular plants.
- Digitization of field data forms.
- Data validation and cleaning.
- Data set transformation according to Darwin Core standards.
- Taxonomic validation, final quality control
Bibliographic Citations
- Dengler, J., Biurrun, I. & Dembicz, I. 2021. Standardised EDGG methodology for sampling grassland diversity: second amendment. Palaearctic Grasslands 49: 22–26.
- Didukh, Ya.P. (ed.) 2009. Chervona knyha Ukrainy. Roslynnyi svit [Red Data Book of Ukraine. Plant Kingdom]. Globalkonsaltyng, Kyiv, 912 pp. [in Ukrainian]
- Kuchera M. Zmiyevy valy Sredne Podneprovia / M.P. Kuchera - Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, 1987. 208 p. Moysiyenko I., Vasyluk O., Shepeleva O. Snake ramparts: protecting society in the past and nature now. Before the future. 2024. С: 528.
- Red List of Kyiv Region (2012). On Approval of the List of Regionally Rare, Endangered Species of Plants and Fungi in Need of Protection in the Kyiv Region and Provisions on It.decision of the Kyiv Regional Council of the Sixth Convocation dated 7.02.2012. Kyiv, 6 pp. (in Ukrainian)
- Shchepeleva, O., Skobel, N., Velychko, N., Dyrenko, N., Grad, Y. & Moysiyenko, I. (2024). Rare plant species of ancient defensive earthworks of Kyiv region. In: Before the future: 543–552. Proceedings of the 15th Congress of the Ukrainian Botanical Society (30 September — 4 October, 2024, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine). Odesa : Publishing house “Helvetica”
- 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. https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.12.e118128
Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | https://ukraine.ipt.gbif.no/resource?r=fsin |
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