Endemic vascular plants in the Ukrainian Carpathians

Biodivers Data J. 2022 Dec 13:10:e95910. doi: 10.3897/BDJ.10.e95910. eCollection 2022.

Abstract

Background: This dynamic dataset aims to gather all available data, extracted mostly from the preserved material deposited at the leading Ukrainian herbaria on the distribution of the endemic vascular plants in the Ukrainian Carpathians and adjacent territories. This dataset is created in the framework of mapping the distribution of the endemic plants and is aimed to unveil the patterns of their spatial distribution, ecological preferences and temporal trends in the flora of the Ukrainian Carpathians. A total of 76 species and subspecies of vascular plants belonging to 49 genera and 27 families are reported herein to occur in the Ukrainian Carpathians and close regions. Amongst the total number of reported 6,427 occurrence records, 1,961 records are georeferenced and supported with a translation of Cyrillic information into English. The remaining occurrence records will be georeferenced and translated into English in the near future, as well as the dataset being completed with new records obtained from the new sources.

New information: In total, 6,427 occurrence records of the endemic vascular plants distributed in the Ukrainian Carpathians were published.

Keywords: chorology; herbarium material; mountain flora; occurrence.

Grants and funding

This project is self-funded by Andriy Novikov. However, it was also partly financially supported by Shpyg Foundation and Marcin Skubiszewski Foundation in 2021-2022.