Checklist of vascular plants of the projected landscape reserve «Lesovyi Kanyon» (Kherson region, Ukraine)

Study Extent

In this area there are 3 groups of beams, which differ in age and are obviously at different stages of development. The oldest ravines (Tomina and Shyroka ravines) have slope (up to 15°). These ravines are highly anthropogenically transformed, at the bottom of them are the villages, and the other part of the ravines is almost completely ploughed. The middle-aged ravines (Sofiyivska, or Chervona and Oleksandrivska) are of medium size, the slopes (a significant part of them has a slope of 20-40°). The third group - four youngest ravines are located of the territory in the vicinity of the villages of Shyroka Balka and Stanislav.

Sampling

Recording and identification of vascular plants with using road-field methods.

Quality Control

The identification of vascular plant species was held with morphological methods at the field and in the Kherson State University Laboratory of Plant Ecology and Environmental Protection. Coordinates of records were checked using Google Earth service. Data cleaning using OpenRefine.

Method steps

1. Field sampling
2. Recording and identification of vascular plants
3. Completing of cheklist of vascular plant
4. Data post-processing according to the Darwin Core standards
5. Data checking and cleaning in OpenRefine

Vascular plants (Plantae, Tracheophyta - Polypodiopsida, Gnetopsida, Liliopsida, Magnoliopsida)

1. Plantae
   rank: kingdom
2. Tracheophyta
   rank: phylum
3. Gnetopsida
   rank: class
4. Liliopsida
   rank: class
5. Magnoliopsida
   rank: class
6. Polypodiopsida
   rank: class

Projected landscape reserve «Lesovyi Kanyon» (Kherson Region, Ukraine)