Spiders of the National Nature Park Dvorichanskyi (Northeastern Ukraine)

Nina Polchaninova

doi:10.15468/vxq39h

Spiders of the National Nature Park Dvorichanskyi (Northeastern Ukraine)

Citation

Polchaninova N (2023). Spiders of the National Nature Park Dvorichanskyi (Northeastern Ukraine). Version 1.8. Ukrainian Nature Conservation Group (NGO). Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/vxq39h accessed via GBIF.org on 2024-12-15.

Description

The database includes records of 211 spider species in 25 families collected in the "Dvorichanskyi" National Nature Park and its vicinity. The park was created for the conservation of chalk grasslands and the landscape complexity of northeastern Ukraine. It hosts chalky hills at various stages of grassland succession, gullies with shrubs and steppe-like meadows, floodplain meadows, and an oak forest on the right high riverbank; a floodplain forest and a narrow strip of wetlands neighbor the park. The sandy river terrace is planted with pine trees. Chalky hills stretch along the Oskil river making a mosaic of specific calcareous vegetation. Natural habitats are surrounded by agricultural lands. Additional records representing new species of spiders registered in the study area was added on 17 January 2023.

Sampling Description

Study Extent

Spiders were collected by hand, by pitfall trapping, and by sweep netting. The main material was obtained in 2014-2016 from a monitoring site representing typical grassland habitats of the study area. I cooperated with Volodymyr Kletionkin (Dvorichanskyi NNP) and Viktoria Terekhova (V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, Dvorichanskyi NNP), Ukraine, who contributed to collection of the material.
This dataset was prepared and published with the help of the Olin gGmbH foundation to preserve data on the biodiversity of Ukraine obtained by the Ukrainian scientists, who were forced to leave their homeland due to the war (Russia's invasion of Ukraine). Olin gGmbH is a funding organization for environmental protection and conservation that supports environmental and sociopolitical organizations.

Sampling

A line of ten traps at a distance of 10 m was established at each study plot: top of slope covered with forb-fescue-feather grass steppe, bare chalky slope with sparse calcareous vegetation, bottom of slope, bordering a floodplain meadow, gully bottom with shrubs and dry/mesic steppe-like meadow, and a floodplain meadow on the edge of riverside arboreal vegetation. Traps were checked monthly from May to October. Similar sampling protocol was used in 2021 for investigating an oak forest and adjacent habitats (old abandoned field with steppe vegetation, chalky slope and gullies). Sweep netting was conducted in the same habitats, tree samples of 25 double sweeps per plot. Since chalk grasslands are patched communities, we sampled chalky hills along the river to determine their specificity and conservation value. Hand collecting during the study period contributed to the fauna inventory of the area in hand. Geographical locations were indicated by GPS-navigator in decimal degrees according to the WGS 84 system. The nomenclature follows the World Spider Catalogue (WSC, 2022).

Quality Control

The author is fully responsible for the quality of data provided within the dataset.

Method steps

Field expeditions to the study sites.
Establishing a line of ten traps at a distance of 10 m at each study plot.
Regular checking of the traps.
Sweep netting conducted in the same habitats, tree samples of 25 double sweeps per plot; hand collecting.
Georeferencing with the help of GPS-navigator.
Species identification in the laboratory.
Organizing of a dataset according to Darwin Core standards.

Taxonomic Coverages

The data base consists of the finds of spiders.

Animalia
rank: kingdom
Arthropoda
rank: phylum
Arachnida
rank: class
Araneae
rank: order

Geographic Coverages

Study area is locted in the Kupyansk District of the Kharkiv Region, Ukraine.

Bibliographic Citations

Polchaninova N.Yu. 2009. [A checklist of the spiders (Araneae) of Kharkov Area (Ukraine)]. Visnyk Kharkivskoho Natsionalnoho Unversitytu imeni V.N. Karazina. Ser. Biology. Vyp. 9. No 856. 121–135 [in Russian, with English summary]. -
Polchaninova N.Yu. 2013a. [Black Eresus (Eresus kollari Rossi, 1846)]. Chervona knyha Kharkivskoi oblasti. Tvarynnyi svit / Ed. H.О. Shandikov, Т.А. Atemasova. Chief Ed. V.А. Tokarsky. Kharkiv: KhNU im. V.N. Kаrazina. 49 [in Ukrainian]. -
Polchaninova N.Yu. 2013b. [Crimean Gnaphosa (Gnaphosa taurica Thorell, 1875)] Chervona knyha Kharkivskoi oblasti. Tvarynnyi svit / Ed. H.О. Shandikov, Т.А. Atemasova. Chief Ed. V.А. Tokarsky. Kharkiv: KhNU im. V.N. Kаrazina. 51 [in Ukrainian]. -
Polchaninova N.Yu. 2013c. [Mournful Gnaphosa (Gnaphosa lugubris (C. L. Koch, 1839))] Chervona knyha Kharkivskoi oblasti. Tvarynnyi svit / Ed. H.О. Shandikov, Т.А. Atemasova. Chief Ed. V.А. Tokarsky. Kharkiv: KhNU im. V.N. Kаrazina. 52 [in Ukrainian]. -
Polchaninova N.Yu. 2014. [To the study of the spider fauna (Araneae) of the National Nature Park “Dvorichanskyi”]. Visnyk Kharkivskoho Natsionalnoho Unversitytu imeni V.N. Karazina. Ser. Biology. Vyp. 19. No 1097. 36–40 [in Russian, with English summary]. -
Polchaninova N. 2019. Rare spider species (Araneae) of protected steppe areas of the Kharkiv Region (Ukraine). Bulletin of V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University. Series “Biology”, issue 32. 99‒106. -
Polchaninova, N., Gnelitsa V., Terekhova V., Iosypchuk A. 2021. New and rare spider species (Arachnida: Araneae) from Ukraine. Zoodiversity. 55(2). 95‒112. -
Polchaninova N.Yu., Prokopenko E.V. 2013. Catalogue of the spiders (Arachnida, Aranei) of Left-Bank Ukraine. Arthropoda Selecta. Supplement No 2. Moscow, KMK Scientific Press. 268 p. -
Polchaninova N.Yu., Prokopenko E.V. 2017. Catalogue of the spiders (Arachnida, Aranei) of Left-Bank Ukraine. Addendum 1. 2013–2016. / (Ed. K.G. Mikhailov). Arthropoda Selecta. Supplement No 4. Moscow, KMK Scientific Press. 115 p. -
Polchaninova N.Yu., Slutsky A.I. 2013. [Addition to the annotated checklist of spiders (Araneae) of Kharkov Region (Ukraine)]. isnyk Kharkivskoho Natsionalnoho Unversitytu imeni V.N. Karazina. Ser. Biology. Vyp. 17. No 1056. P.120–128 [in Russian, with English summary]. -
World Spider Catalog (WOS). 2022. version 23.0 Bern: Natural History Museum. http://wsc.nmbe.ch (accessed 28.04.2022) -

Contacts

Nina Polchaninova
originator
position: Assistant professor
V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University
Svobody Sq. 4
Kharkiv
61027
Kharkiv
UA
email: n.polchaninova@karazin.ua

Nina Polchaninova
metadata author
position: Assistant professor
V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University
Svobody Sq. 4
Kharkiv
61027
Kharkiv
UA
email: n.polchaninova@karazin.ua

Oleksii Marushchak
programmer
position: junior researcher
I. I. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology NAS of Ukraine
Vul. B. Khmelnytskogo, 15
Kyiv
01030
UA
Telephone: +380964882670
email: ecopelobates@gmail.com
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Nina Polchaninova
administrative point of contact
position: Assistant professor
V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University
Svobody Sq. 4
Kharkiv
61027
Kharkiv
UA
email: n.polchaninova@karazin.ua