Eastern European Steppe Database

By

Vynokurov, Denys
Didukh, Yakiv
Krasova, Olga
Lysenko, Hennadiy
Goncharenko, Igor
Dmytrash-Vatseba, Iryna
Chusova, Olga
Shyriaieva, Dariia
Kolomiychuk, Vitalii
Moysiyenko, Ivan

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2020-12-21

Original Publication

Vegetation classification and survey

Volume

1

Pages

149--150

Subjects

dry grassland , eastern Europe , forest-steppe zone , steppe , steppe zone

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia Pensoft Publishers 2020-

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/VCS/2020/60520

 

Abstract

The Eastern European Steppe Database (GIVD ID EU-00-030) includes 6961 vegetation plots of dry grassland vegetation from Eastern Europe (Steppe and Forest-Steppe zones, mountain regions), mainly from Ukraine (4579 relevés), Russia (2403 relevés) and Moldova (203 relevés). 3912 vegetation plots are from different literature sources (66 sources), 219 are from the phytosociological card-index of the M.G. Kholodny Institute of Botany, NAS of Ukraine, 2830 relevés are authors’ relevés. They were established in 1935-2019 years. The database comprises mainly the vegetation of the class Festuco-Brometea (around 95% of the dataset), and a small proportion of Koelerio-Corynephoretea canescentis, Artemisietea vulgaris, Crataego-Prunetea. The taxonomy of vascular species is given according to Cherepanov (1995) for vascular plants, Ignatov and Afonina (1992) for bryophytes and identification guides of the USSR (1971–1978) and Russia (1996, 1998) for lichens. The database is part of the European Vegetation Archive.<br>