Alien plant species of the Middle Volga Region (South-East of the European part of Russia)

Stepan Senator

doi:10.15468/gv7hxs

Alien plant species of the Middle Volga Region (South-East of the European part of Russia)

Citation

Senator S (2022). Alien plant species of the Middle Volga Region (South-East of the European part of Russia). Version 1.8. Institute of Ecology of the Volga river basin of Russian Academie of Sciences. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/gv7hxs accessed via GBIF.org on 2024-12-14.

Description

The presented dataset contains information about alien vascular plant species found in the Middle Volga Region (South-East of the European part of Russia). In total, this dataset includes 413 species belonging to 248 genera and 67 families. The study is based on data published during floristic studies from 1852 to 2019. At the same time, the study does not include alien vascular plant species that have now disappeared from the territory of the region. In total, the dataset contains 7782 occurrence records which were extracted from the Salix information and analytical system developed at the Institute of Ecology of the Volga River Basin of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Senator et al., 2018).

Sampling Description

Study Extent

The presented dataset is based on the published synopsis of alien plants of the Middle Volga Region (Senator, Vasjukov, 2019) and materials contained in the Salix information and analytical system developed at the Institute of Ecology of the Volga River Basin of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Senator et al., 2018). The study does not include alien vascular plant species that have now disappeared from the territory of the region, as well as species that are native in one part of the study region, while in another they are found exclusively in disturbed habitats. The terms "alien species" and "invasive species" are considered according to D.M. Richardson et al. (2011) and also according to the system of terms used in Russian-language scientific literature (Baranova et al., 2018).

Sampling

The basis for the compilation of the dataset was published data on the flora of the Middle Volga Region, the author's own field research, as well as the staff of the laboratory of problems of phytodiversity of the Institute of Ecology of the Volga River Basin of the Russian Academy of Sciences, materials of herbariums of the Lomonosov Moscow State University (MW), V.L. Komarov Botanical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (LE), Institute of Ecology of the Volga River Basin of the Russian Academy of Sciences (PVB), Penza State University (PKM), Ulyanovsk State Pedagogical University named after I.N. Ulyanov (UPSU), Main Botanical Garden of the Russian Academy of Sciences (MHA), Papanin Institute for Biology of Inland Waters Russian Academy of Sciences (IBIW) and Zhiguli State Natural Reserve (ZHR).

Quality Control

The data was collected and identified by scientists from the Institute of Ecology of the Volga River Basin of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The accuracy of the determination of some samples was confirmed by systematics from the Lomonosov Moscow State University and the V.L. Komarov Botanical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Method steps

1. The source data for this standardized checklist is the information contained in the Salix information-analytical system (Senator et al., 2018), available at https://саликс.рф/Salix/. This information is updated regularly. 2. The Salix information and analytical system allows you to generate a report in the form of an Excel table with the necessary dataset. When creating the report, the fields «Species name», «Family», «Administrative Oblast», «District», «Location», «Geographical coordinates», unique identifiers for each taxon, and bibliographic citation were generated. In cases where there is no reference to the literary source, a herbarium sample collector is specified. 3. The nomenclature of species was determined mainly according to The Plant List (2013). The dataset fields’ names were chosen according to Darwin Core (Wieczorek et al., 2012) and include the following: «scientificName», «verbatimScientificName», «kingdom», «phylum», «class», «family», «StateProvince», «municipality», «locality», «eventDate», «DecimalLatitude», «DecimalLongitude», «establishmentMeans», «year», «Recordedby», «GeodeticDatum», «BasisOfRecord», «CountryCode», «country», «occurrenceID», «InstitutionCode», «language», «bibliographicCitation».

Taxonomic Coverages

Geographic Coverages

The Middle Volga Region is a region located in the South-East of the European part of Russia. In botanical and geographical terms it is located on the border of the European broad-leaved forest area and the Eurasian steppe area. The area of the region is 90.9 thousand square km, the population density is 48.6 people per square km. Administratively, it is Samara and Ulyanovsk Oblasts of the Russian Federation. The coordinates of the northernmost point are 54.887903 N, 49.289177 E, the southernmost point are 51.774088 N, 50.766883 E, the Western point are 53.988244 N, 45.797979 E, and the Eastern point are 54.340690 N, 52.566412 E.

Bibliographic Citations

Baranova O.G., Shcherbakov A.V., Senator S.A., Panasenko N.N., Sagalaev V.A., and Saksonov S.V. 2018. The main terms and concepts used in the study of alien and synanthropic flora. Phytodiversity of Eastern Europe. XII (4): 4–22. (In Russ.) - DOI: 10.24411/2072-8816-2018-10031
Lambdon Ph.W., Pyšek P., Basnou C., Hejda M., Arianoutsou M., Ess F., Jarošík V., Perg J., Winter M., Anastasiu P., Andriopoulos P., Bazos I., Brundu G., CelestiGrapow L., Chassot Ph., Delipetrou P., Josefsson M., Kark S., Klotz S., Kokkoris Y., Kühn I., Marchante H., Perglová I., Pino J., Vilà M., Zikos A., Roy1 D., and Hulme Ph.E. 2008. Alien flora of Europe: species diversity, temporal trends, geographical patterns and research needs. Preslia. 80: 101–149. -
Richardson D.M., Pyšek P. and Carlton J.T. 2011. A compendium of essential concepts and terminology in biological invasions. In: Richardson D.M. (ed.). Fifty years of invasion ecology: the legacy of Charles Elton. Blackwell Publishing, Oxford. Pp. 409–420. -
Senator S., Klenin A., and Saksonov S. 2018. Informational and analytical support of floristic diversity researches in the Middle Volga region – SALIX system. In: Abstracts of the conference “Information Technologies in the Research of Biodiversity” (BIT - 2018). Irkutsk: ISDCT SB RAS. Pp. 76–77. -
Senator S.A., Vasjukov V.M. 2019. Synopsis of alien plants of the Middle Volga Region. Phytodiversity of Eastern Europe. XIII (4): 353–396. (In Russ.) - doi: 10.24411/2072-8816-2019-10057
The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Published on the Internet; http://www.theplantlist.org/ (accessed 1st January). -
Wieczorek J., Bloom D., Guralnick R., Blum S., Doring M., De Giovanni R., Robertson T., and Vieglais D. 2012. Darwin Core: An Evolving Community-developed Biodiversity Data Standard. PLoS ONE. 7 (1). - doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0029715
Senator S, Tretyakova A, Vorontsov D (2020) Distribution of alien plant species of the Middle Volga Region (South-East of the European part of Russia): a dataset. Biodiversity Data Journal 8: e59125. - https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.8.e59125
Senator S, Tretyakova A, Vorontsov D (2020) Distribution of alien plant species of the Middle Volga Region (South-East of the European part of Russia): a dataset. Biodiversity Data Journal 8: e59125. - https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.8.e59125

Contacts

Stepan Senator
originator
position: Senior Researcher
Institute of Ecology of the Volga River Basin of the Russian Academy of Sciences
10, Komzina Str.
Togliatti
445003
RU
email: stsenator@yandex.ru
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1932-2475

Stepan Senator
metadata author
position: Senior Researcher
Institute of Ecology of the Volga River Basin of the Russian Academy of Sciences
10, Komzina Str.
Togliatti
445003
RU
email: stsenator@yandex.ru
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1932-2475

Natalya Ivanova
programmer
position: Reseacher
Institute of Mathematical Problems of Biology RAS
1, Vitkevicha str. Pushchino, Moscow Region
Pushchino
142290
RU
email: natalya.dryomys@gmail.com
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4199-5924

Stepan Senator
administrative point of contact
position: Senior Researcher
Institute of Ecology of the Volga River Basin of the Russian Academy of Sciences
10, Komzina Str.
Togliatti
445003
RU
email: stsenator@yandex.ru
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1932-2475