Data on macrophyte diversity in rivers and streams of the Vologda Region and several other regions of Russia

Data Records

The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 6,153 records.

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Geographic Coverage

The studies were carried out in various parts of European Russian and Western Siberia, mainly in the southern and middle taiga and a lesser number in the northern taiga and the forest-steppe. The analyzed watercourses belong to 5 drainage basins: the Azov Sea, the Baltic Sea, the White Sea, the Caspian Sea, and the Kara Sea. The coordinates of the northernmost site were 64.5729 N, 43.2959 E, the southernmost site 51.8139 N, 39.3836 E, the westernmost site 58.4353 N, 33.2828 E, and the easternmost site 60.8691 N, 76.4263 E.

Taxonomic Coverage

The dataset contains 292 taxa of Tracheophyta, Bryophyta, Marchantiophyta, Chlorophyta, Charophyta, Ochrophyta, Rhodophyta, including 280 lower-rank taxa (species, subspecies, varieties) and 12 taxa identified to the genus level.

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Sampling Methods

Field studies were carried out from May to October, mainly during the greatest development of macrophytes (July and August). The composition of the flora of rivers and streams was established during route field studies. We studied all available microhabitats in the channel and coastal parts of water bodies, including those differing in current velocity, sediments, depths, and macrophyte canopy development. When studying streams, the route, as a rule, ranged from 50 to 150 m; on rivers, usually from 100 to 1000 m. The studies of the macrophyte community composition were conducted both purposefully and along with the studies of other groups of aquatic organisms.

Method step description:

1. Research problem formulation.
2. Logistic issues resolution, including the choice of routes, water objects, time and duration of work.
3. Field stage: obtaining samples and other original materials on the flora of rivers and streams. In the field, pictures of plants and floristic lists were made, some species were collected in a herbarium; several hydrochemical parameters (water temperature, total dissolved solids, pH, and electrical conductivity) were measured using portable devices (Philippov et al., 2017).
4. Data collection: analysis of samples not identified in the field or verification of the identification data by the experts. The keys by Tsvelev (2000), Ignatov and Ignatova (2003, 2004), Lisitsyna et al. (2009), and Maevskii (2014) were used in the study. Herbarium materials were transferred for processing to the Herbarium of the Mire Research Group of Papanin Institute for Biology of Inland Waters Russian Academy of Sciences (MIRE).
5. Records list compilation. The dataset fields’ names were chosen according to Darwin Core (Wieczorek et al., 2012) and include the following: «occurrenceID», «basisOfRecord», «scientificName», «acceptedNameUsage», «eventDate», «taxonRank», «kingdom», «phylum», «class», «order», «family», «genus», «taxonomicStatus», «habitat», «decimalLatitude «, «decimalLongitude», «geodeticDatum», «coordinateUncertaintyInMeters», «coordinatePrecision», «countryCode», «country», «stateProvince», «county», «locality», «year», «month», «day», «recordedBy», «identifiedBy», «dateIdentified», «associatedReferences». Georeferencing was made by fixing the coordinates of the middle part of the studied river site using a GPS navigator or Google maps. Coordinates accuracy was set to the fourth digit. In all cases, the WGS-84 coordinate system was used.

Bibliographic Citations

1. Ignatov MS, Ignatova EA (2003) Moss flora of the Middle European Russia. Vol. 1: Sphagnaceae – Hedwigiaceae. Arctoa 11 (s1): 1–608. [In Russian].
2. Ignatov MS, Ignatova EA (2004) Moss flora of the Middle European Russia. Vol. 2: Fontinalaceae – Amblystegiaceae. Arctoa 11 (s2): 609–960. [In Russian].
3. Lisitsyna LI, Papchenkov VG, Artemenko VI (2009) Flora of water bodies of the Volga river basin. Identification guide of vascular plants. KMK Press, Moscow, 219 pp. [In Russian].
4. Maevskii PF (2014) Flora of Middle Part of European Russia. 11th edition. KMK Press, Moscow, 635 pp. [In Russian].
5. Papchenkov VG, Scherbakov AV, Lapirov AG (2003) Basic hydrobotanical concepts and associated terms. Servis Press, Ryazan, 21 pp. [In Russian].
6. Philippov DA, Prokin AA, Przhiboro AA (2017) Methods and methodology of hydrobiological study of mires: tutorial. University of Tyumen Publishing, Tyumen, 207 pp. [In Russian].
7. Tzvelev NN (2000) Manual of the vascular plants of North-West Russia (Leningrad, Pskov and Novgorod provinces). St.-Petersburg State Chemical-Pharmaceutical Academy Press, Saint Petersburg, 781 pp. [In Russian].
8. Wieczorek J, Bloom D, Guralnick R, Blum S, Döring M, Giovanni R, Robertson T, Vieglais D (2012) Darwin Core: An Evolving Community-Developed Biodiversity Data Standard. PLoS ONE 7(1): e29715. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0029715

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