Vascular plants of old cemeteries in the Lower Dnipro region (Southern Ukraine)

By

Skobel, Nadiia
Moysiyenko, Ivan
Sudnik-Wójcikowska, Barbara
Dembicz, Iwona
Zachwatowicz, Maria
Zakharova, Maryna
Marushchak, Oleksii
Dzerkal, Vikroria

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2023-02-01

Original Publication

Biodiversity data journal

Volume

11

Pages

1--32

Subjects

floristic richness , grass steppe , Kherson Region , occurrence , refuge of steppe flora , Ukraine.

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia Pensoft Publishers [2013]-

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.11.e99004
eLocator: e99004

 

Abstract

The dataset contains the records of vascular plant species occurrences and distribution in old cemeteries (OC) of the Lower Dnipro region (Southern Ukraine). The analysed cemeteries were located in different types of landscapes (agricultural, rural and urban) and represent various ways of using their area (currently used, closed, abandoned). The floristic list includes 440 species of vascular plants (437 in situ, 3 ex situ). The dataset demonstrates a sozological (Red-lists species) value of old cemeteries in Southern Ukraine. The cemeteries constitute refuges of native, rare and steppe flora and play a role of steppe habitat islands in a landscape almost completely transformed to arable land or urbanised.<br> This is the first dataset which contains information about flora of old cemeteries in Lower Dnipro region (Southern Ukraine). The dataset comprises 2118 occurrences of vascular plants (440 species) recorded in the years 2008-2021 in 13 old cemeteries of the Lower Dnipro region. The dataset includes information about 85 occurrences of rare species (23 species in situ, 3 ex situ) and 652 occurrences of 117 steppe species.