Database Report

Halophytic and coastal vegetation database of Ukraine

Tetiana Dziuba & Dmytro Dubyna

GIVD Database ID: EU-UA-005	Last update: 2025-01-17
Halophytic and coastal vegetation database of Ukraine	Web address:
Database manager(s): Tetiana Dziuba (tdziuba2014@gmail.com); Dmytro Dubyna (ddub@ukr.net)
Owner: Tetiana Dziuba
Scope: The database contains geobotanical releves of halophytic vegetation of Ukraine (Therosalicornietea, Kalidietea foliati, Juncetea maritimi, Festuco-Puccinellietea, Crypsietea aculeatae, Bolboschoenetea maritimi), and also of the Black and Azov Sea coasts vegetation including the mouth regions of large rivers (Cakiletea maritimae, Ammophiletea, Crithmo-Staticetea, Festucetea vaginatae, Helichryso-Crucianelletea maritimae, Salicetea purpureae, Alnetea glutinosae, Ruppietea maritimae, Zosteretea etc.).
Abstract: In the M.G. Kholodny Institute of Botany the database of geobotanical releves of halophytic vegetation of Ukraine territory was developed. It encloses the Therosalicornietea, Kalidietea foliati, Juncetea maritimi, Festuco-Puccinellietea, Crypsietea aculeatae, Bolboschoenetea maritimi classes and of the Black and Azov Sea coast vegetation in Ukraine including the mouth regions of large rivers (the Danube, Dnieper) (Cakiletea maritimae, Ammophiletea, Crithmo-Staticetea, Festucetea vaginatae, Helichryso-Crucianelletea maritimae, Salicetea purpureae, Alnetea glutinosae, Ruppietea maritimae, Zosteretea classes and others) as well. It contains 5310 releves of Ukrainian authors published in deposit issues, monographs and articles, and unpublished releves as well. The database has information about releve date, releve area, projective cover (of total and layers), locality, authors, references. The characters of ecotopes described, seldom – exposition and tilt angle of slopes, human impact degree, soil properties were given here. Information is mainly used for plant cover classification, coenoflora analysis and study of vegetation dynamics.
Availability: according to a specific agreement	Online upload: no	Online search: no
Database format(s): TURBOVEG	Export format(s): TURBOVEG, CSV file
Plot type(s): normal plots	Plot-size range (m²): 4 to 400
Non-overlapping plots: 6515	Estimate of existing plots: 6515	Completeness: 100%	Status: completed and continuing
Total no. of plot observations: 6515	Number of sources (biblioreferences, data collectors): 41	Valid taxa: 1477
Countries (%): UA: 100
Formations: Forest: 3% = Semi-aquatic: 2%; Terrestrial: 1% // Non Forest: 97% = Aquatic: 1% (Haline water: 1%); Semi-aquatic: 18% (Haline water: 16%; Fresh water: 2%); Terrestrial: 78% (Non arctic-alpin: 78% [Natural: 17%; Semi-natural: 59%; Anthropogenic: 3%])
Guilds: all vascular plants: 100%; lichens (terricolous or aquatic): 1%
Plot size categories (%): < 1 m2: 0%; 1-10 m2: 2.17%; 10-100 m2: 39.3%; 100-1000 m2: 32.1%; 1000-10000 m2: 0%; >= 10000 m2: 0%; unknowmn: 26.3%;
Environmental data (%): altitude: 1.3; slope aspect: 0; slope inclination: 1.3; microrelief: 61.9; surface cover other than plants (open soil, litter, bare rock etc.): 0; other soil attributes: 30.4; soil pH: 0.07; land use categories: 0; soil depth: 0; other attributes: type of soil
Performance measure(s): presence/absence only: 0%; cover: 100%; number of individuals: 0%; measurements like diameter or height of trees: 3.93%; biomass: 0%; other: 0%
Geographic localisation: GPS coordinates (precision 25 m or less): 10.25%; point coordinates less precise than GPS, up to 1 km: 0%; small grid (not coarser than 10 km): 89.75%; political units or only on a coarser scale ( above 10 km): 0%
Sampling periods: before 1920: 0%; 1920-1929: 0%; 1930-1939: 4.64%; 1940-1949: 0%; 1950-1959: 4.36%; 1960-1969: 2.99%; 1970-1979: 0.48%; 1980-1989: 10.91%; 1990-1999: 22.59%; 2000-2009: 26.37%; 2010-2019: 15.01%; unknown: 12.65%
Information as of 2026-05-19; further details and future updates available from http://www.givd.info/ID/EU-UA-005

Tetiana Dziuba* (tdziuba2014@gmail.com)
Geobotany and Ecology Department, M.G. Kholodny Institute of Botany NAS of Ukraine, 2 Tereshchenkivska str., 01601 Kyiv, UKRAINE
Dmytro Dubyna (ddub@ukr.net)
Geobotany and Ecology Department, M.G. Kholodny Institute of Botany NAS of Ukraine, 2 Tereshchenkivska str., 01601 Kyiv, UKRAINE
* corresponding author