List of invasive flora and fauna species from the territory of Ukraine

Checklist
Latest version published by Ukrainian Nature Conservation Group (NGO) on Mar 5, 2024 Ukrainian Nature Conservation Group (NGO)

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Description

The checklist consists of species of animals and plants that are considered invasive on the territory of Ukraine. The checklist is regularly updated and new species can be added to it in future. A part of the list was implemented by the Order of the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources of Ukraine dated April 3, 2023 №184 "On Approval of the List of Invasive Tree Species with a Significant Ability to Uncontrolled Spread, Prohibited for Use in Forest Reproduction"

Data Records

The data in this checklist 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.

1 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.

Taxon (core)
18
VernacularName 
18

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:

Marushchak O, Vasyliuk O, Prylutskyi O (2024). List of invasive flora and fauna species from the territory of Ukraine. Version 1.0. Ukrainian Nature Conservation Group (NGO). Checklist dataset. https://ukraine.ipt.gbif.no/resource?r=invasivespeciesua&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). To the extent possible under law, the publisher has waived all rights to these data and has dedicated them to the Public Domain (CC0 1.0). Users may copy, modify, distribute and use the work, including for commercial purposes, without restriction.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: a927d1ae-0705-48f5-893c-989123d5a2bc.  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

Checklist; animals; plants; fauna; flora; invasive; alien species; Ukraine; biodiversity; Inventoryregional

Contacts

Oleksii Marushchak
  • Metadata Provider
  • Custodian Steward
  • Originator
  • Point Of Contact
junior researcher
I. I. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology NAS of Ukraine
Vul. B. Khmelnytskogo, 15
01030 Kyiv
UA
0964882670
Olexiy Vasyliuk
  • Originator
junior researcher
I. I. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology NAS of Ukraine
Vul. B. Khmelnytskogo, 15
01030 Kyiv
UA
Oleh Prylutskyi
  • Originator
Associate Professor
V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University
Svobody sq. 4
61022 Kharkiv
UA

Geographic Coverage

The Checklist covers the entire territory of Ukraine.

Bounding Coordinates South West [43.835, 22.061], North East [52.483, 40.342]

Taxonomic Coverage

The Checklist consists of species of plants and animals.

Kingdom Animalia, Plantae
Phylum Tracheophyta
Class Squamata, Testudines

Sampling Methods

Scientific names were manually extracted from the species list indicated on the web sites: https://zakon.rada.gov.ua/laws/show/z0641-23#Text

Study Extent The Checklist covers the entire territory of Ukraine.
Quality Control Scientific names, including authorship, are given using GBIF species matching tool.

Method step description:

  1. Manual data transcribing from the document to the spreadsheet.

Additional Metadata