Author(s): Kondratyuk, S. Y., Popova, L. P., Kondratiuk, A. S. & Lőkös, L.
Title: ‘Hot’ and ‘white’ spots of lichen diversity of the Ukrainian plains (after geobotanical subprovinces and administrative oblasts)
Year: 2022
Volume: 53
Pages: 59-82.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17110/StudBot.2022.53.1.59
Abstract: Podolian-Middle-Dnieper geobotanical subprovince of Forest-Steppe zone and the belts
of Artemisia-Gramineae Steppes and grass-Stipeta-Festuca Steppes of Priazov Black Sea Steppe subprovince
of Steppe zone are the most well studied among twelve geobotanical subprovinces of the
Ukrainian plains, while the lack of information on lichen species diversity found to be in Middle
Russian subprovince of Forest zone and belt of grass-Stipeta-Festuca Steppes of Middle-Don Steppe
subprovince of Steppe zone of this territory. Among twenty three administrative oblasts of the
Ukrainian plains situated in twelve geobotanic subprovinces of three zones the highest lichen species
diversity is found in Kherson oblast of the belt of Artemisia-Gramineae Steppes (464 species),
Mykolaiv oblasts of the belt of grass-Stipeta-Festuca Steppes of Priazov Black Sea Steppe subprovince
(389 species) of Steppe zone, as well as in Kharkiv oblast of Middle Russian subprovince (332 species)
of Forest-Steppe zone of the Ukrainian plains on the basis of the Fourth checklist of lichen-forming
and lichenicolous fungi including 2,106 of the total Ukrainian lichens. The lower lichen
diversity is hitherto recorded from Rightbank Polessian subprovince (the highest species diversity
296 species in Zhytomyr oblast) and Baltic Forest subprovince (281 species in Lviv oblast) in Forest
zone of the Ukrainian plains as well as Podolian-Middle-Dnieper subprovince (287 species in
Khmelnytsk oblast) of the Forest-Steppe zone of territory mentioned. Insufficient level of data on
lichen diversity is recorded for Middle Russian and Podolian-Bessarabian Forest subprovinces of the
Forest zone, as well as the belt of grass-Stipeta-Festuca Steppes of Middle-Don Steppe subprovince
and the belt of Stipeta-Festuca Steppes of Priazov Black Sea Steppe subprovince of Steppe zone. The
same rather lower level of data on lichen diversity is found in Ivano-Frankivsk, Chernivtsi, Chernihiv,
Vinnytsia and Sumy of Forest and Forest-Steppe zones; in Poltava and Kharkiv, as well as Cherkasy,
Kirovograd, Mykolaiv and Donetsk oblasts in Forest-Steppe and Steppe zones; in Odessa, Kherson
and Dnipropetrovsk oblasts of Steppe zone, as well as Zhytomyr oblasts in Podolian-Middle-Dnieper
subprovince of Forest-Steppe zone. List of the rarest taxa of the regionally unique group (hitherto
known from single or a few localities) proposed as candidates for including to Red Regional lists of
22 oblasts of the Ukrainian plains as far the whole nature protection activity in Ukraine is provided.Keywords: Ukraine, forest, nature protection, administrative oblast, forest-steppe, Kharkiv, Kherson, Mykolaiv, steppe zone
Subject: botany
Journal: Studia botanica hungaricaJournal abbreviation: Studia bot. hung.ISSN: 0301-7001Publisher: Hungarian Natural History Museum, BudapestEditor(s): Lőkös, L.