ARPHA Preprints, doi: 10.3897/arphapreprints.e99064

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

Nadiia Skobel^‡§, Ivan Moysiyenko^|, Barbara Sudnik-Wójcikowska^¶, Iwona Dembicz^¶, Maria Zachwatowicz^#, Maryna Zakharova^|, Oleksii Marushchak^¤, Vikroria Dzerkal^«

‡ Kherson State University, Kherson, Ukraine§ University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland| Kherson State University, Faculty of Biology, Geography and Ecology, Department of Botany, Kherson, Ukraine¶ University of Warsaw, Faculty of Biology & Biological and Chemical Research Centre, Warsaw, Poland# University of Warsaw, Faculty of Geography and Regional Studies, Warsaw, Poland¤ I. I. Schmalhauzen Institute of Zoology, NAS of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine« Nyzhnodniprovskyi NPP, Kherson, Ukraine

Corresponding author: Nadiia Skobel ( skobel2015@gmail.com )

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Citation: Skobel N, Moysiyenko I, Sudnik-Wójcikowska B, Dembicz I, Zachwatowicz M, Zakharova M, Marushchak O, Dzerkal V (2022) Vascular plants of old cemeteries in Lower Dnipro Region (Southern Ukraine). ARPHA Preprints. https://doi.org/10.3897/arphapreprints.e99064

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 are 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. The dataset demonstrates a sozological value of old cemeteries in Southern Ukraine. The cemeteries constitute refuges of native and steppe flora, and play a role of steppe habitat islands in a landscape almost completely transformed to arable land or urbanized.

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.

Keywords

Occurrence, old cemeteries, refuge of steppe flora, floristic richness, grass steppe, Kherson region, Ukraine