Records of vascular plants  at the site of the former Kakhovka reservoir in 2023 (Kamianska Sich National Nature Park, Kherson Region, Ukraine)

Ivan Moysiyenko1, Anna Kuzemko2, Liubov Borsukevych3, Nadiia Skobel4, Olga Chusova2, Alexander Khodosovtsev1, Yakiv Didukh2

1 Kherson State University, University Street 27, 73000, Kherson, Ukraine; 2 M.G. Kholodny Institute of Botany NAS of Ukraine, Tereshchenkivska Street 2, 01601, Kyiv, Ukraine; 3 otanical Garden of Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, Cheremshyny Street 44, 79000,  Lviv; 4 Kherson State University, 27 Universytetska Str, 73000, Kherson, Ukraine

Corresponding author(s): Ivan Moysiyenko (ivan.moysiyenko@gmail.com)Anna Kuzemko (anyameadow.ak@gmail.com)Liubov Borsukevych (lborsukiewicz@gmail.com)Nadiia Skobel (skobel2015@gmail.com)Olga Chusova (olgachusova28@gmail.com)Alexander Khodosovtsev ( khodosovtsev@gmail.com)Yakiv Didukh (ya.didukh@gmail.com)

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Resource Citation

Moysiyenko I, Kuzemko A, Borsukevych L, Skobel N, Chusova O, Khodosovtsev A, Didukh Y (2024). Records of vascular plants  at the site of the former Kakhovka reservoir in 2023 (Kamianska Sich National Nature Park, Kherson Region, Ukraine). Version 1.2. Kherson State University. Occurrence dataset. https://ukraine.ipt.gbif.no/resource?r=ksbottom&v=1.2

Abstract

The dataset include occurrences from the dry bottom of 2 ravines (Mylovska and Kamianska) at the territory of Kamianska Sich National Nature Park in the former Kakhovka reservoir after the Russian terrorist attack on the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant (HPP) (Kherson Region). This dataset contains 127 occurrences of 4 relevés (Biodiversity EDGG) and nearest territories of dry bottoms of 75 taxa names of vascular plants recorded in during June and October 2023.  We sampled cryptogams, but they were not recorded during sampling. The main information about the relevés submitted to GrassPlot (Dengler et al. 2018). The nomenclature of the dataset follows “POWO (POWO, 2024).

Keywords: Occurrence; viodiversity; steppes; southern Ukraine; sampling plots

Project details

Project title: Advocating for the environment and local communities of the future for the former Kakhovka Reservoir and Kakhovka HPP
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=ksbottom

Taxonomic coverage

General taxonomic coverage description: 75 taxa names of vascular plants (Plantae, Tracheophyta -  Liliopsida, Magnoliopsida).
Taxonomic ranks
Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Tracheophyta 
Class: Liliopsida, Magnoliopsida

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: Kamianska Sich NNP, Beryslav District, Kherson Region, southern Ukraine.
Coordinates: 46°59'13.2''N and 47°5'20.4''N Latitude; 33°33'21.6''E and 33°40'51.6''E Longitude 

Temporal coverage: June 30, 2023

Temporal coverage: October 19, 2023

Methods

Method step description: 
- . 	Site selection, field research.
- . 	Identification of herbarium specimens of vascular plants.
- . 	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 recorded during 2023 at the territory of Kamianska Sich National Nature Park after the Russian terrorist attack on the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant (HPP). The study area is situated in the Kherson Region.
Sampling description: The study of was conducted using route-field methods. Additionally, the complete relevés with 4 nested-plot biodiversity series collected during summer and autumn 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  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). 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 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  at the site of the former Kakhovka reservoir in 2023 (Kamianska Sich National Nature Park, 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=ksbottom
Publication date of data: 2024-03-18
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
Dengler, J., Wagner, V., Dembicz, I., García-Mijangos, I., Naqinezhad, A., Boch, S., Chiarucci, A., Conradi C., … & Biurrun, I. 2018. GrassPlot – a database of multi-scale plant diversity in Palaearctic grasslands. Phytocoenologia 48: 331–347.

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."