Records of vascular plants, bryophytes and lichens from the Kamianska Sich National Nature Park in 2020 (Kherson Region, Ukraine)

Denys Vinokurov1, Ivan Moysiyenko2, Alexander Khodosovtsev2, Natalia Zagorodniuk3, Nadiia Skobel3

1 M.G. Kholodny Institute of Botany NAS of Ukraine, Tereshchenkivska Street 2, 01601, Kyiv, Ukraine; 2 Kherson State University, University Street 27, 73000, Kherson, Ukraine; 3 Kherson State University, 27 Universytetska Str, 73000, Kherson, Ukraine

Corresponding author(s): Denys Vinokurov (denys.vynokurov@gmail.com)Ivan Moysiyenko (ivan.moysiyenko@gmail.com)Alexander Khodosovtsev ( khodosovtsev@gmail.com)Natalia Zagorodniuk (natalybriolog@gmail.com )

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Resource Citation

Vinokurov D, Moysiyenko I, Khodosovtsev A, Zagorodniuk N (2024). Records of vascular plants, bryophytes and lichens from the Kamianska Sich National Nature Park in 2020 (Kherson Region, Ukraine). Version 1.2. Kherson State University. Samplingevent dataset. https://ukraine.ipt.gbif.no/resource?r=ks2020&v=1.2

Abstract

This dataset contains 1020 occurrences of 282 taxa names (241 vascular plants, 36 bryophytes, 6 lichens) recorded in 35 vegetation plots during 2020 in Southern Ukraine. The sampled locations represent grasslands of natural types of vegetation Festuco-Brometea. The nomenclature of the dataset follows “POWO (POWO, 2024), “An annotated checklist of bryophytes of Europe, Macaronesia and Cyprus” (Hodgetts et al. 2020), and “The fourth checklist of Ukrainian Lichen-forming and lichenicolous fungi with analysis of current additions” (Kondratyuk et al. 2021), with minor edits.

Keywords: Samplingevent; biodiversity; steppes; southern Ukraine; sampling plots

Project details

Project title: FONDATION DE FRANCE
Funding: Funded by Advocating for the environment and local communities of the future for the former Kakhovka Reservoir and Kakhovka HPP (2023-2024, FONDATION DE FRANCE)

Data published through GBIF: https://ukraine.ipt.gbif.no/resource?r=ks2020

Taxonomic coverage

General taxonomic coverage description: 282 taxa names (241 vascular plants, 36 bryophytes, 6 lichens)
Vascular plants (Plantae, Tracheophyta - Gnetopsida, Liliopsida, Magnoliopsida), Mosses (Plantae - Bryophyta, Briopsida), Lichens (Fungi, Ascomycota).
Taxonomic ranks
Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Tracheophyta, Bryophyta, Fungi
Class: Gnetopsida, Magnoliopsida, Liliopsida, Briopsida, Ascomycota

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: Kamianska Sich NNP, Beryslav District, Kherson Region, southern Ukraine.
Coordinates: 46°58'37.2''N and 47°5'45.6''N Latitude; 33°31'8.4''E and 33°42'43.2''E Longitude 

Temporal coverage: June 15, 2020

Temporal coverage: June 16, 2020

Temporal coverage: June 17, 2020

Temporal coverage: June 18, 2020

Methods

Method step description: 
- . 	Site selection, field research.
- . 	Identification of herbarium specimens of vascular plants, lichens, bryophytes.
- . 	Digitizing the field data forms.
- . 	Data checking and cleaning.
- . 	Transformation of the dataset according to the Darwin Core standards.

- . 	Taxonomic check, final quality control.
Study extent description: The dataset contains co-occurrences of vascular plants, bryophytes and lichens recorded during 2020 in Southern Ukraine. The study area is situated in the central-southern part of the Black Sea Lowland in the southern part of the steppe zone of Ukraine, Kamianska Sich National Nature Park in Kherson administrative region.
Sampling description: The dataset contains co-occurrences of vascular plants, bryophytes and lichens recorded during the 2020. in Southern Ukraine. The study area is situated in the central-southern part of the Black Sea Lowland in the southern part of the steppe zone of Ukraine, in Kherson .administrative region in Kamianska Sich National Nature Park.
To obtain this dataset, we sampled 35 plots which had an area of 10 m2 (17 plots), 100 m2 (6 plots). The plots of larger size (100m2) which include smaller plots are marked as parent events in the Event Core. Sampling locations were chosen to cover different types of natural and seminatural open grassland habitats within the study area. In each plot, we recorded occurrences of vascular plants (shoot presence), all terricolous soil-growing bryophytes and lichens. For each 10-m2 plot, several environmental and structural parameters were recorded: cover of vegetation layers and of litter, rocks, slope, aspect, inclination, shrub layer height and herb layer height. Additionally, the complete relevés with  following the EDGG methodology (Dengler et al. 2021) are available in the GrassPlot database (Dengler et al. 2018).
Quality control description: Some specimens of the vascular plants and almost all lichens and mosses 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: for vascular plants - POWO (2024), for bryophytes - An annotated checklist of bryophytes of Europe, Macaronesia and Cyprus (Hodgetts et al. 2020), and for lichens – The fourth checklist of Ukrainian Lichen-forming and lichenicolous fungi with analysis of current additions (Kondratyuk et al. 2021). 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 3.22 (https://qgis.org) for quality control.

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive Records of vascular plants, bryophytes and lichens from the Kamianska Sich National Nature Park in 2020 (Kherson Region, Ukraine)
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: https://ukraine.ipt.gbif.no/archive.do?r=ks2020
Publication date of data: 2024-03-17
Language: English
Licences of use: Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2024-03-17
Hierarchy level: Dataset

References
Hodgetts N., Söderström L., Blockeel T., Caspari S., Ignatov N., Konstantinova N., Lockhart B., Papp C., Schröck M., Sim-Sim D., Bell N., Bell H., Blom M., Bruggeman-Nannenga M., Brugués J., Enroth K., Flatberg R., Garilleti L., Hedenäs D., Roseggergasse U. 2020. An annotated checklist of bryophytes of Europe, Macaronesia and Cyprus. Journal of Bryology 42: 1–116.
Kondratyuk S.Ya., Popova L.P., Khodosovtsev O.Y., Lőkös L., Fedorenko N.M., Kapets N.V. 2021. The fourth checklist of Ukrainian Lichen-forming and lichenicolous fungi with analysis of current additions. Acta Botanica Hungarica 63 (1–2): 97–163.
POWO (2024). "Plants of the World Online. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet; http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org/ Retrieved 07 March 2024."