Records of vascular plants of the News Biosphere Reserve "Askania Nova"

Nadiia Skobel

doi:10.15468/xyt6hj

Records of vascular plants of the News Biosphere Reserve "Askania Nova"

Citation

Skobel N (2025). Records of vascular plants of the News Biosphere Reserve "Askania Nova". Kherson State University. Sampling event dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/xyt6hj accessed via GBIF.org on 2025-06-13.

Description

The News Biosphere Reserve "Askania Nova" is a scientific, peer-reviewed journal specialized in biology and ecology. Thematic scope: the journal publishes articles on nature conservation, conservation of natural diversity, biology, ecology, protection of rare species of plants and animals in nature and artificial conditions, steppe nature management, soil science, introduction, reintroduction. Issues: protected area, bioecology; genetics, plant physiology and applied botany; hydrobiology; zoology. Periodicity: 1 time a year. The dataset contains an records of all species occurrences that have been published in 2-25 issues of the News Biosphere Reserve "Askania Nova" (2000-2024). To avoid data duplication, this dataset does not include the occurrences that are part of another dataset (https://doi.org/10.15468/4gzpkr, https://doi.org/10.15468/nhn2ae) published before. This dataset contains 4502 occurrences of 599 taxa names recorded. The nomenclature of the dataset follows original taxa names in articles. The materials in the News Biosphere Reserve "Askania Nova" are especially important in light of the events of 2022, when a Russian full scale invasion. The data from these Scientific readings actually document the historical state of biodiversity before the outbreak of a full-scale invasion war in the southern Ukraine.

Sampling Description

Study Extent

Ukraine.

Sampling

To obtain this dataset, we digitized 221 plots which had an area from unknown to 100m2 of Ukraine from the peer-reviewed journal News Biosphere Reserve "Askania Nova".

Quality Control

Data was recorded according to the methodology used for the temporal scope, or the date of publication was used if it was not specified in the methodology of the source. 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

Digitizing the literature sources.
Data checking and cleaning.
Transformation of the dataset according to the Darwin Core standards.
Taxonomic check, final quality control.

Taxonomic Coverages

The nomenclature of the dataset follows original taxa names in articles.

Plantae
rank: kingdom

Geographic Coverages

Ukraine

Bibliographic Citations

Fitsailo, T.V. (2006). The syntaxonomy of shrubs vegetation (Class Rhamno-Prunetea Rivas Goday et Carb., 1961) in the section of the Ukrainian Steppe Nature Reserve "Kamyani Mogyly". News Biosphere Reserve "Askania Nova". Volume 8. pp.85-92 [in Russian]. -
Fitsailo, T.V. (2008). The syntaxonomy of shrubs vegetation (Klass Rhamno-Prunetea Rivas Goday et Carb. 1961) in Provalski step of of the Luhansk Nature Reserve. News Biosphere Reserve "Askania Nova". Volume 10. pp. 74-85 [in Ukrainian]. -
Iakushenko, D.M., Tokaryuk, A.I., Buchko,O.V., & Chorney, I.I. (2024). Vegetation syntaxonomy of the Center for Restoration and Conservation of Ecosystems "Kasova Hora". News Biosphere Reserve "Askania Nova". Volume 26. pp. 128-141 [in Ukrainian]. - https://doi.org/10.53904/1682-2374/2024-26/9
Karnatovskaya, M.Yu. (2008). A phytosociological characteristic of communities with domination of Quercus robur on arenas of the Lower Dnieper. News Biosphere Reserve "Askania Nova". Volume 10. pp. 86-89 [in Russian]. -
Korzhenevsky, V. V., & Ryff, L. E. (2002). About the new syntaxa and the volume of the class Onosmo polyphyllae-Ptilostemonetea. News Biosphere Reserve "Askania Nova". Volume 4. pp. 20-29 [in Ukrainian]. -
Korzhenevsky, V.V., & Ryff, L.E. (2002). About the new syntaxa and the volume of the class Onosmo polyphyllae-Ptilostemonetea. News Biosphere Reserve "Askania Nova". Volume 4. pp. 20-29 [in Ukrainian]. -
Pashkevich, N.A., Gorobchyshyn, V.A., Kuzemko, I.V., Vyshnevsky, D.A., Khodosovtsev, O.Ye., Rabyk, I.V., Shapoval, V.V., & Kuzemko, A.A. (2024). Monitoring plots of grassland vegetation on the territory of the Chornobyl Radiation and Ecological Biosphere Reserve. News Biosphere Reserve "Askania Nova". Volume 26. pp. 151-179 [in Ukrainian]. - https://doi.org/10.53904/1682-2374/2024-26/11

Contacts

Nadiia Skobel
originator
Kherson State University
UA
email: skobel2015@gmail.com
userId: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4354-2881

Nadiia Skobel
metadata author
Kherson State University
UA
email: skobel2015@gmail.com
userId: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4354-2881

Nadiia Skobel
programmer
Kherson State University
UA
email: skobel2015@gmail.com
userId: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4354-2881

Nadiia Skobel
administrative point of contact
Kherson State University
UA
email: skobel2015@gmail.com
userId: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4354-2881