Endemic vascular plants of the Ukrainian Carpathians

Andriy Novikov1, Mariia Sup-Novikova2

1 State Museum of Natural History of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Teatralna str. 18, 79008, Lviv, Ukraine; 2 Ukrainian Catholic University, Sventsitskoho str. 17, 79000, Lviv, Ukraine

Corresponding author(s): Andriy NovikovMariia Sup-Novikova

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Resource Citation

Novikov A, Sup-Novikova M (2023). Endemic vascular plants of the Ukrainian Carpathians. Version 1.7. State Museum of Natural History of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Occurrence dataset. https://ukraine.ipt.gbif.no/resource?r=ukrcarpendemicplants&v=1.7

Abstract

This dataset is created and maintained by Dr. Andriy Novikov from the State Museum of Natural History of the NAS of Ukraine. This dataset gathers all available data (mostly obtained from the preserved herbarium material) on the distribution of the endemic vascular plants in the Ukrainian Carpathians and adjacent territories. This dataset is created in frames of mapping the distribution of the endemic plants and will be compiled with coordinates and English locality translations during further updates. To avoid data duplication, this dataset does not include the endemic representatives of the genus Aconitum that are part of another dataset (https://doi.org/10.15468/n37j8x) published before.

Keywords: Ukrainian Carpathians, vascular plants, endemics, distribution, mapping, Specimen, herbarium

Project details

Project title: Bratislava Project
Personnel: Andriy Novikov
Funding: This project is mostly self-funded by Andriy Novikov. However, it was also partly financially supported by Shpyg Foundation and Marcin Skubiszewski Foundation.
Study area descriptions/descriptor: Ukrainian Carpthians
Design description: All available data, predominantly gathered from the Ukrainian herbarium collections, but also represented in the publications, card indexes, and other scientific sources, are used for the creation of this dataset.

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

Taxonomic coverage

General taxonomic coverage description: Endemic vascular plants collected, reported or recorded for the flora of the Ukrainian Carpathians and adjacent territories
Taxonomic ranks
Class: Magnoliopsida

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: Ukrainian Carpathians
Coordinates: 47°36'21.6''N and 49°44'20.4''N Latitude; 22°3'39.6''E and 26°19'22.8''E Longitude 

Natural collections description

Collection name: LWS herbarium
Living time period: 1852-2020
Specimen preservation method: Dried and pressed

Methods

Method step description: 1. Taking photos of herbarium labels;
2. Reidentification of taxa following recent taxonomy;
3. Extracting the locality, collector, date, and other relevant (e.g., identification history) information from the labels;
4. Translation of the primary label information from non-Romanian languages (i.e., Ukrainian and Russian) to English;
5. Georeferencing and verification of localities using recent and antique maps;
6. Quality check applying OpenRefine and QGIS (for outlets and coordinates mistakes).
Study extent description: All reports and specimens of the endemic vascular plants collected from the Ukrainian Carpathians in 1800-2000th are applied to create this dataset.
Sampling description: The data are extracted mostly from the herbarium labels and research publications. In certain cases, data were also gathered from the card indexes (e.g., Karel Domin's Card Index) and other related scientific sources.
Quality control description: The taxonomy, in general, corresponds to the POWO checklist but has minor corrections regarding problematic taxa. The quality of data is manually controlled and verified, taking into account the research expertise of Andriy Novikov, and also controlled through automatic procedures (e.g., OpenRefine).

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive Endemic vascular plants of the Ukrainian Carpathians
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: https://ukraine.ipt.gbif.no/archive.do?r=ukrcarpendemicplants
Publication date of data: 2023-11-30
Language: English
Licences of use: Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2022-09-09
Hierarchy level: Dataset