Some botanical researches of the Faculty of Biology of Taras Shevchenko national university of Kyiv (1930s-2000s)

Olexiy Vasyliuk1, Oleksii Marushchak1, Artem Zinkovskyi2

1 I. I. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology NAS of Ukraine, Vul. B. Khmelnytskogo, 15, 01030, Kyiv, Ukraine; 2 Taras Shevchenko national university of Kyiv, , Ukraine

Corresponding author(s): Olexiy Vasyliuk (vasyliuk@gmail.com)Oleksii Marushchak (ecopelobates@gmail.com)Artem Zinkovskyi

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Resource Citation

Vasyliuk O, Marushchak O, Zinkovskyi A (2022): Some botanical researches of the Faculty of Biology of Taras Shevchenko national university of Kyiv (1930s-2000s). v1.2. Ukrainian Nature Conservation Group (NGO). Dataset/Occurrence. https://gbif.univer.kharkov.ua/resource?r=herbarium1&v=1.2

Abstract

The dataset consists of plants' registrations from Excel-organized herbarium collection of the Faculty of Biology of Taras Shevchenko national university of Kyiv (1930s-2000s). Using description provided within the original dataset, where it was possible to certail level of reliability, approximate coordinates were found.

Keywords: Occurrence, herbarium, collection, plants, Plantae, Tracheophyta, Ukraine, Faculty of Botany, Taras Shevchenko national university of Kyiv, Occurrence

Data published through GBIF: https://ukraine.ipt.gbif.no/resource?r=herbarium1

Taxonomic coverage

General taxonomic coverage description: Dataset concists of representatives of Plantae kingdom exclusively.
Taxonomic ranks
Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Tracheophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida, Pinopsida, Liliopsida, Polypodiopsida, Lycopodiopsida

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: The dataset consists of findings from the territory of Ukraine.
Coordinates: 44°20'24''N and 52°25'44.4''N Latitude; 21°58'22.8''E and 40°15'14.4''E Longitude 

Temporal coverage: July 17, 1935 - June 22, 2007

Methods

Method step description: 
- . 	Processing of the original dataset eliminating the records, for which defining coordinates to even som approximation was impossible.
- . 	Georeferencing.
- . 	Organizing of a new dataset.
Study extent description: We have developed a file of the herbarium of the Department of Botany of the Faculty of Biology of Taras Shevchenko national university of Kyiv, which existed before the closure of the department in 2016. Herbarium materials with a total volume of almost 60,000 herbarium sheets were collected and arranged by a large number of both students and employees of the department. Unfortunately, most of the labels of the herbarium are designed in such a way that it is impossible to establish the location where the collection took place. Only 11% of the card index records allowed to identify pre-localities, most of which were the outskirts of well-known settlements and place names from the territory of nature reserves, which is traditionally a place of botanical research in Ukraine. Many such toponyms are not official and are common only among teachers and students of the university. Therefore, on the one hand, such toponyms indicate very clear localities, and on the other hand establishing their exact meaning is a difficult task.
Among the localities we have identified, there are places of student internships in the 1950s, which are already flooded by the waters of the Kaniv Reservoir. These are for example the tracts "Tyrliv Island" and "Cossack Spire".
Analysis of the file of the herbarium also revealed a large number of options for writing the same localities. In addition, when designing herbarium labels (apparently after returning from practice), a large number of errors were made in toponyms and names of settlements, which did not allow us to reliably identify the locations of a significant number of meetings. As a result, we have identified only 11% of records that can be submitted as a reliable dataset.
Sampling description: For localities identified only with accuracy to the settlement, we have chosen an accuracy (radius) of 5 km (5000 m) or less, which eliminates the error in choosing the coordinates of the centroid of the described conditional locality. The indicator "5000 m" was chosen taking into account the density of settlement in the plains of Ukraine.
Quality control description: The authors are responsible for the quality of data provided within the dataset.

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive Some botanical researches of the Faculty of Biology of Taras Shevchenko national university of Kyiv (1930s-2000s)
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: https://ukraine.ipt.gbif.no/archive.do?r=herbarium1
Publication date of data: 2023-10-13
Language: English
Licences of use: Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2021-11-27
Hierarchy level: Dataset