Biodiversity surveys of grassland and coastal habitats in 2021 as a documentation of pre-war status in southern Ukraine.
Nadiia SkobelDariia BorovykDenys VynokurovIvan MoysiyenkoAndriy BabytskiyIryna BednarskaOlesia BezsmertnaOlha ChusovaPolina DaynekoJürgen DenglerRiccardo GuarinoKateryna KalashnikAlexander KhodosovtsevVitalii KolomiychukOksana KucherAnna KuzemkoViktor ShapovalOlha UmanetsNatalia ZagorodniukMaryna ZakharovaIwona DembiczPublished in: Biodiversity data journal (2023)
) were recorded for the first time for the Kherson Region. Additionally, these datasets contain occurrences of taxa with narrow distribution, specialists of rare habitat types and, therefore, represented by a low number of occurrences in relevant biodiversity databases and particularly in GBIF. This publication highlights the diversity of natural vegetation and its flora in southern Ukraine and raises conservation concerns.