Records of vascular plants, bryophytes and lichens from the Kamianska Sich National Nature Park and valley of river Inhulets in 2002 (Kherson and Mykolaiv Regions, Ukraine)

Ivan Moysiyenko1, Piotr Górski2, Alexander Khodosovtsev1, Mykhailo Boiko1, Nadiia Skobel3

1 Kherson State University, University Street 27, 73000, Kherson, Ukraine; 2 Poznan University of Life Sciences, Poznań, Poland; 3 Kherson State University, 27 Universytetska Str, 73000, Kherson, Ukraine

Corresponding author(s): Ivan Moysiyenko (ivan.moysiyenko@gmail.com)Piotr Górski (piotr.gorski@up.poznan.pl)Alexander Khodosovtsev ( khodosovtsev@gmail.com)Mykhailo Boiko

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Resource Citation

Moysiyenko I, Górski P, Khodosovtsev A, Boiko M (2024). Records of vascular plants, bryophytes and lichens from the Kamianska Sich National Nature Park and valley of river Inhulets in 2002 (Kherson and Mykolaiv Regions, Ukraine). Version 1.1. Kherson State University. Samplingevent dataset. https://ukraine.ipt.gbif.no/resource?r=ks2022&v=1.1

Abstract

The dataset include 49 plots of different  sizes 4-60 (square meters) of natural types of vegetation Festuco-Brometea in Southern Ukraine (Mykolaiv and Kherson Regions).This dataset contains 1415 occurrences of 563 taxa names (210 vascular plants, 16 bryophytes, 16 lichens) recorded in 49 relevés during field season 2002.
The sampled locations represent grasslands. 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=ks2022

Taxonomic coverage

General taxonomic coverage description: Vascular plants (Plantae, Tracheophyta - Gnetopsida, Liliopsida, Magnoliopsida), Mosses (Plantae - Bryophyta, Briopsida), Lichens (Fungi - Ascomycota).
Taxonomic ranks
Kingdom: Plantae, Fungi
Phylum: Tracheophyta, Bryophyta
Class: Gnetopsida, Magnoliopsida, Liliopsida, Briopsida, Ascomycota

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: Kherson and Mykolaiv Regions, southern Ukraine.
Coordinates: 46°42'54''N and 47°21'14.4''N Latitude; 32°37'44.4''E and 33°41'2.4''E Longitude 

Temporal coverage: May 21, 2002 - June 8, 2002

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 2002 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 the Mykolaiv and Kherson regions.
Sampling description: To obtain this dataset, we sampled 49 plots of different  sizes 4-60 (square meters) of natural types of vegetation Festuco-Brometea. 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 m2 plot, several environmental and structural parameters were recorded: cover of vegetation layers and of litter, rocks, slope, aspect, inclination and managment.
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 and valley of river Inhulets in 2002 (Kherson and Mykolaiv Regions, Ukraine)
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: https://ukraine.ipt.gbif.no/archive.do?r=ks2022
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."