Ukrainian Plant Trait Database: UkrTrait v. 1.0

• Authors: VYNOKUROV Denys; BOROVYK Dariia; CHUSOVA Olha; DAVYDOVA Anastasia; DAVYDOV Denys; DANIHELKA Jiří; DEMBICZ Iwona; IEMELIANOVA Svitlana; KOLOMIIETS Ganna; MOYSIYENKO Ivan; SHAPOVAL Viktor; SHYNDER Oleksandr; SKOBEL Nadiia; BUZHDYGAN Oksana; KUZEMKO Anna
• Year of publication: 2024
• Type: Article in Periodical
• Magazine / Source: Biodiversity Data Journal
• MU Faculty or unit: Faculty of Science
• Web: https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.12.e118128
• Doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.12.e118128
• Keywords: vascular plants; Eastern Europe; Ukrainian flora
• Description: Considering the growing demand for plant trait data and taking into account the lack of trait data from Eastern Europe, especially from its steppic region, we launched a new Ukrainian Plant Trait Database (UkrTrait v. 1.0) aiming at collecting all the available plant trait data from Ukraine. To facilitate further use of this database, we linked the trait terminology to the TRY Plant Trait Database, Thesaurus of Plant Characteristics (TOP) and Plant Trait Ontology (TO). For taxa names, we provide the crosswalks between the Ukrainian checklist and international sources, i.e. GBIF Backbone Taxonomy, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (World Checklist of Vascular Plants (World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP), World Flora Online (WFO) and Euro+Med PlantBase. We aim to integrate our data into the relevant global (TRY Plant Trait Database) and pan-European (FloraVeg.EU) databases. The current version of the database is freely available at the Zenodo repository and will be updated in the future.