Records of vascular plants, bryophytes and lichens from the 15th EDGG Field Workshop “Grasslands and coastal habitats of Southern Ukraine”
Citation
Moysiyenko I, Vynokurov D, Borovyk D, Skobel N, Babitskyi A, Bednarska I, Bezsmertna O, Chusova O, Dengler J, Guarino R, Kalashnik K, Khodosovtsev A, Kolomiychuk V, Kucher O, Kuzemko A, Shapoval V, Umanets O, Zagorodniuk N, Zakharova M, Dembicz I (2023). Records of vascular plants, bryophytes and lichens from the 15th EDGG Field Workshop “Grasslands and coastal habitats of Southern Ukraine”. Version 1.3. Kherson State University. Sampling event dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/2n5p55 accessed via GBIF.org on 2024-08-30.Description
Field Workshops of the Eurasian Dry Grassland Group (EDGG) are research expeditions aimed at collecting high-quality biodiversity data in different types of grasslands throughout the Palaearctic Region (Dengler et al. 2021). This dataset contains 5497 occurrences of 563 species (466 vascular plants, 51 bryophytes, 46 lichens) recorded in 239 vegetation plots during the 15th EDGG Field Workshop in Southern Ukraine (Moysiyenko et al. 2022). The sampled locations represent different types of grasslands, including steppes, inland sandy vegetation, coastal dunes, meadows and saline grasslands. The nomenclature of the dataset follows “Nomenclatural Checklist of vascular plants of Ukraine” (Mosyakin & Fedoronchuk 1999), “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.Sampling Description
Study Extent
The dataset contains co-occurrences of vascular plants, bryophytes and lichens recorded during the 15th EDGG Field Workshop 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 and Mykolaiv administrative regions. During the sampling, we surveyed the following protected areas: Black Sea Biosphere Reserve, Azov-Syvash National Nature Park, Dzharylgach National Nature Park, Biloberezhzhia Sviatoslava National Nature Park, Oleshkivski Pisky National Nature Park, Kamianska Sich National Nature Park.Sampling
To obtain this dataset, we sampled 239 plots which had an area of 10 m2 (175 plots), 100 m2 (49 plots) and 1000 m2 (15 plots). The plots of larger size (100 and 1000 m2) 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 several plots, epiphytic lichens on woody plants were also registered. 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 7-8 nested-plot biodiversity series collected during the 15th EDGG Field Workshop following the EDGG methodology (Dengler et al. 2021) are available in the GrassPlot database (Dengler et al. 2018).Quality Control
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 - Nomenclatural Checklist of vascular plants of Ukraine (Mosyakin & Fedoronchuk 1999), 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/), R (R Core Team 2022) and QGIS 3.22 (https://qgis.org) for quality control.Method steps
- 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.
Taxonomic Coverages
Vascular plants (Plantae, Tracheophyta - Polypodiopsida, Gnetopsida, Liliopsida, Magnoliopsida), Mosses (Plantae - Bryophyta, Marchantiophyta), Lichens (Fungi, Ascomycota).
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Plantaerank: kingdom
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Tracheophytarank: phylum
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Polypodiopsidarank: class
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Gnetopsidarank: class
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Liliopsidarank: class
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Magnoliopsidarank: class
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Bryophytarank: phylum
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Marchantiophytarank: phylum
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Fungirank: kingdom
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Ascomycotarank: phylum
Geographic Coverages
Kherson and Mykolaiv regions, Southern Ukraine.
Bibliographic Citations
- 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. - 10.1127/phyto/2018/0267
- Dengler I., Biurrun I., Dembicz I. 2021. Standardised EDGG methodology for sampling grassland diversity: second amendment. Palaearctic Grasslands 49: 22–26. - 10.21570/EDGG.PG.49.22-26
- 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. - 10.1080/03736687.2019.1694329
- Khodosovtsev A., Darmostuk V., Dembicz I., Dengler J., Moysiyenko I., Kuzemko A. 2022. Сircinaria drygrasslandii sp. nova, a new species from sand dunes of the Lower Dnipro valley (Ukraine). Lichenologist. In press. -
- 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. - 10.1556/034.63.2021.1-2.8
- Moysiyenko I.I., Umanets O.Yu., Dengler J., Guarino R., Dembicz I., Kucher O.O. 2022. Torilis pseudonodosa Bianca (Apiaceae) – new species for the flora of Ukraine. Chornomorski Botanical Journal 17 (4): 331–338. - 10.32999/ksu1990-553X/2021-17-4-3
- Moysiyenko I., Vynokurov D., Shyriaieva D., Skobel N., Babitskyi A., Bednarska I., Bezsmertna O., Chusova O., Dengler J., Ruarino R., Kalashnik K., Khodosovtsev A., Kolomiychuk V., Kucher O., Kuzemko A., Shapoval V., Umanets O., Zagorodniuk N., Zakharova M., Dembicz I. 2022. Grasslands and coastal habitats of Southern Ukraine: First results from the 15th EDGG Field Workshop. Palaearctic Grasslands 52: 44–83. - 10.21570/EDGG.PG.52.44-83
- Mosyakin S.L., & Fedoronchuk M.M. 1999. Vascular plants of Ukraine. A nomenclatural checklist. Specialized printing house of scientific journals of the NAS of Ukraine, Kyiv. -
- R Core Team. 2022. R: A language and environment for statistical computing. R Foundation for Statistical Computing, Vienna, Austria. URL: https://www.R-project.org/ -
Contacts
Ivan Moysiyenkooriginator
position: Leading Reserarcher
email: ivan.moysiyenko@gmail.com
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Denys Vynokurov
originator
position: Reserarcher
email: denys.vynokurov@gmail.com
userId: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7003-6680
Dariia Borovyk
originator
position: Data Quality Checker, Programmer
email: darshyr@gmail.com
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Nadiia Skobel
originator
position: Data Quality Checker, Programmer
email: skobel2015@gmail.com
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Andrii Babitskyi
originator
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Iryna Bednarska
originator
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Olesia Bezsmertna
originator
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Olha Chusova
originator
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Jürgen Dengler
originator
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Riccardo Guarino
originator
email: riccardo.guarino@unipa.it
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Kateryna Kalashnik
originator
email: kalashnik.eka@gmail.com
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Alexander Khodosovtsev
originator
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Vitalii Kolomiychuk
originator
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Oksana Kucher
originator
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Anna Kuzemko
originator
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Viktor Shapoval
originator
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Olha Umanets
originator
email: olg-umanets@ukr.net
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Natalia Zagorodniuk
originator
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Maryna Zakharova
originator
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Iwona Dembicz
originator
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Ivan Moysiyenko
metadata author
position: Leading Reserarcher
email: ivan.moysiyenko@gmail.com
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Denys Vynokurov
metadata author
email: denys.vynokurov@gmail.com
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Dariia Borovyk
metadata author
position: Data Quality Checker, Programmer
email: darshyr@gmail.com
userId: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7140-7201
Nadiia Skobel
metadata author
position: Data Quality Checker, Programmer
email: skobel2015@gmail.com
userId: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4354-2881
Ivan Moysiyenko
administrative point of contact
position: Leading Reserarcher
email: ivan.moysiyenko@gmail.com
userId: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0689-6392