Records of vascular plants of the News Biosphere Reserve "Askania Nova"

Sampling event
Latest version published by Kherson State University on May 9, 2025 Kherson State University
Publication date:
9 May 2025
Published by:
Kherson State University
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CC-BY 4.0

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Description

The News Biosphere Reserve "Askania Nova" is a scientific, peer-reviewed journal specialized in biology and ecology. Thematic scope: the journal publishes articles on nature conservation, conservation of natural diversity, biology, ecology, protection of rare species of plants and animals in nature and artificial conditions, steppe nature management, soil science, introduction, reintroduction. Issues: protected area, bioecology; genetics, plant physiology and applied botany; hydrobiology; zoology. Periodicity: 1 time a year. The dataset contains an records of all species occurrences that have been published in 2-25 issues of the News Biosphere Reserve "Askania Nova" (2000-2024). To avoid data duplication, this dataset does not include the occurrences that are part of another dataset (https://doi.org/10.15468/4gzpkr, https://doi.org/10.15468/nhn2ae) published before. This dataset contains 4502 occurrences of 599 taxa names recorded. The nomenclature of the dataset follows original taxa names in articles. The materials in the News Biosphere Reserve "Askania Nova" are especially important in light of the events of 2022, when a Russian full scale invasion. The data from these Scientific readings actually document the historical state of biodiversity before the outbreak of a full-scale invasion war in the southern Ukraine.

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 230 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.

Event (core)
230
Occurrence 
4502
Releve 
230

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

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How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Skobel N (2025). Records of vascular plants of the News Biosphere Reserve "Askania Nova". Version 1.0. Kherson State University. Samplingevent dataset. https://ukraine.ipt.gbif.no/resource?r=releve_askaniia&v=1.0

Rights

Researchers should respect the following rights statement:

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: ef74d923-05e8-477a-9e99-528ab8fe8f5c.  Kherson State University publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Participant Node Managers Committee.

Keywords

Samplingevent; species; vascular plants

Contacts

Nadiia Skobel
  • Metadata Provider ●
  • Programmer ●
  • Originator ●
  • Point Of Contact
Kherson State University
UA
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4354-2881

Geographic Coverage

Ukraine

Bounding Coordinates South West [40.075, 26.016], North East [51.618, 37.266]

Taxonomic Coverage

The nomenclature of the dataset follows original taxa names in articles.

Kingdom Plantae

Project Data

The project is aimed at collecting, digitalization and preservation of data on biodiversity records in Ukraine. The project was implemented by the Ukrainian Nature Conservation Group with the support of the Goethe-Institut Ukraine, part of the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Ukraine.

Title Preservation of Scientific Heritage of Nature Reserves and National Parks Affected by the War

Sampling Methods

To obtain this dataset, we digitized 221 plots which had an area from unknown to 100m2 of Ukraine from the peer-reviewed journal News Biosphere Reserve "Askania Nova".

Study Extent Ukraine.
Quality Control Data was recorded according to the methodology used for the temporal scope, or the date of publication was used if it was not specified in the methodology of the source. 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/), R (R Core Team 2022) and QGIS 3.22 (https://qgis.org) for quality control.

Method step description:

  1. Digitizing the literature sources.
  2. Data checking and cleaning.
  3. Transformation of the dataset according to the Darwin Core standards.
  4. Taxonomic check, final quality control.

Bibliographic Citations

  1. Fitsailo, T.V. (2006). The syntaxonomy of shrubs vegetation (Class Rhamno-Prunetea Rivas Goday et Carb., 1961) in the section of the Ukrainian Steppe Nature Reserve "Kamyani Mogyly". News Biosphere Reserve "Askania Nova". Volume 8. pp.85-92 [in Russian].
  2. Fitsailo, T.V. (2008). The syntaxonomy of shrubs vegetation (Klass Rhamno-Prunetea Rivas Goday et Carb. 1961) in Provalski step of of the Luhansk Nature Reserve. News Biosphere Reserve "Askania Nova". Volume 10. pp. 74-85 [in Ukrainian].
  3. Iakushenko, D.M., Tokaryuk, A.I., Buchko,O.V., & Chorney, I.I. (2024). Vegetation syntaxonomy of the Center for Restoration and Conservation of Ecosystems "Kasova Hora". News Biosphere Reserve "Askania Nova". Volume 26. pp. 128-141 [in Ukrainian]. https://doi.org/10.53904/1682-2374/2024-26/9
  4. Karnatovskaya, M.Yu. (2008). A phytosociological characteristic of communities with domination of Quercus robur on arenas of the Lower Dnieper. News Biosphere Reserve "Askania Nova". Volume 10. pp. 86-89 [in Russian].
  5. Korzhenevsky, V. V., & Ryff, L. E. (2002). About the new syntaxa and the volume of the class Onosmo polyphyllae-Ptilostemonetea. News Biosphere Reserve "Askania Nova". Volume 4. pp. 20-29 [in Ukrainian].
  6. Korzhenevsky, V.V., & Ryff, L.E. (2002). About the new syntaxa and the volume of the class Onosmo polyphyllae-Ptilostemonetea. News Biosphere Reserve "Askania Nova". Volume 4. pp. 20-29 [in Ukrainian].
  7. Pashkevich, N.A., Gorobchyshyn, V.A., Kuzemko, I.V., Vyshnevsky, D.A., Khodosovtsev, O.Ye., Rabyk, I.V., Shapoval, V.V., & Kuzemko, A.A. (2024). Monitoring plots of grassland vegetation on the territory of the Chornobyl Radiation and Ecological Biosphere Reserve. News Biosphere Reserve "Askania Nova". Volume 26. pp. 151-179 [in Ukrainian]. https://doi.org/10.53904/1682-2374/2024-26/11

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