Світлій пам’яті Василя Васильовича Капустяна

The article represents the scientific achievements and work of a Ukrainian botanist, candidate of agricultural sciences, director of the O.V. Fomin Botanical Garden (1987–2006, 2008–2012), Vasyl Kapustyan, who died on August 19, 2020, after a long illness.Vasyl Kapustyan was born on July 24, 1942. In 1965 he graduated from the Ukrainian Agricultural Academy, and in 1972 received the degree of candidate of agricultural sciences. Since 1974, the work of Vasyl Kapustyan was associated with the O.V. Fomin Botanical Garden, where he served in 1975–1987 as deputy director and head of the sector of tropical and subtropical plants, in 1987–1997 – as director and head of the sector of tropical and subtropical plants, and from 1997 – exclusively as director of the Botanical Garden.The scientific work of Vasyl Kapustyan was related to the introduction of tropical and subtropical plants, their conservation, and rational use. He was the author of over 80 scientific articles and monographs, the last of which was dedicated to the 180th anniversary of the botanical garden. Since the founding of the series “Introduction and Conservation of Plant Diversity” of the “Bulletin of the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv”, Vasyl Kapustyan was its editor-in-chief. He was also a member of the Academic Councils of Kyiv University and Faculty of Biology, chairman of the Academic Council of the Botanical Garden, a member of the Bureau of the Council of Botanical Gardens of Ukraine, and a member of the editorial board of the international scientific journal “Plant Introduction”. He was the founder and scientific director of the Museum of the Botanical Garden History, which opened in 2004.У статті висвітлено науковий доробок і трудову діяльність Василя Васильовича Капустяна – ботаніка, кандидата сільськогосподарських наук, директора Ботанічного саду ім. акад. О.В. Фоміна (1987–2006, 2008–2012), який помер 19 серпня 2020 року після тривалої хвороби.Народився В.В. Капустян 24 липня 1942 р. 1965 року закінчив Українську сільськогосподарську академію, 1972 отримав ступінь кандидата сільськогосподарських наук. З 1974 р. трудова діяльність В.В. Капустяна була пов’язана з Ботанічним садом ім. акад. О.В. Фоміна, де у 1975–1987 рр. він виконував обов’язки заступника директора з наукової роботи та керівника сектору тропічних і субтропічних рослин, у 1987–1997 рр. – директора Ботанічного саду та завідувача сектору тропічних та субтропічних рослин, а з 1997 р. – виключно директора Ботанічного саду.Наукова робота В.В. Капустяна була пов’язана з інтродукцією тропічних і субтропічних рослин, їхнім збереженням та раціональним використанням. В.В. Капустян був автором понад 80 наукових праць, монографічних робіт, остання з яких присвячена 180-річчю з дня заснування Ботанічного саду. В.В. Капустян був головним редактором Вісника Київського національного університету імені Тараса Шевченка “Інтродукція та збереження рослинного різноманіття” з часу його заснування. Також багато років він був членом Вченої Ради Київського університету та біологічного факультету, головою Вченої Ради Ботанічного саду, членом бюро Ради ботанічних садів України і членом редколегії міжнародного наукового журналу “Інтродукція рослин”. В.В. Капустян був організатором та науковим керівником Музею історії Ботанічного саду, відкритого 2004 року

Vegetation changes within the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone, Ukraine

The article presents data from the study of vegetation dynamics in the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone 30 years after the nuclear disaster and the resettlement of its local people. The 1993 prognostic data on the further development of grass and forest community groups in this area was only partially correct. The new prognosis for demutation successions reflects deviations from the linear development with a possible horizontal "shift", depending on climatic conditions, bio-ecological features of plants, as well as the impact of fires. Based on the analysis of recent data from geobotanical studies of the vegetation, the values of ecofactors that determine the course of demutation of communities were calculated. In particular, the classic course of succession is now inherent in the former settlements of the exclusion zone where the formation of forests takes place. In the old fallow lands, the previously prevailing Elytrigia repens has lost its dominant position, and has been replaced by Calamagrostis epigejos, which we associate with a certain deficiency of nitrogen compounds in the soil. The allelopathic properties of cereals inhibit the process of replacing grass communities with forest ones, which affects the course of succession. The issues of demutation of residential areas of the Exclusion Zone are considered and the sequence of changes in different habitats is described. Post-pyrogenic changes in the forest vegetation are noted and the capacity of invasive plant species to invade natural ecosystems are characterized. It is emphasized that frequent and large-scale fires cause a significant imbalance in forest ecosystems, and result in the appearance of a largenumber of alien species

European vegetation archive (EVA). An integrated database of European vegetation plots

The European Vegetation Archive (EVA) is a centralized database of European vegetation plots developed by the IAVS Working Group European Vegetation Survey. It has been in development since 2012 and first made available for use in research projects in 2014. It stores copies of national and regional vegetation- plot databases on a single software platform. Data storage in EVA does not affect on-going independent development of the contributing databases, which remain the property of the data contributors. EVA uses a prototype of the database management software TURBOVEG 3 developed for joint management of multiple databases that use different species lists. This is facilitated by the SynBioSys Taxon Database, a system of taxon names and concepts used in the individual European databases and their corresponding names on a unified list of European flora. TURBOVEG 3 also includes procedures for handling data requests, selections and provisions according to the approved EVA Data Property and Governance Rules. By 30 June 2015, 61 databases from all European regions have joined EVA, contributing in total 1 027 376 vegetation plots, 82% of them with geographic coordinates, from 57 countries. EVA provides a unique data source for large-scale analyses of European vegetation diversity both for fundamental research and nature conservation applications. Updated information on EVA is available online at http://euroveg.org/eva-database

sPlot - A new tool for global vegetation analyses

Dengler, Jurgen/0000-0003-3221-660X; Chytry, Milan/0000-0002-8122-3075; de Gasper, Andre Luis/0000-0002-1940-9581; Marceno, Corrado/0000-0003-4361-5200; Swacha, Grzegorz/0000-0002-6380-2954; He, Tianhua/0000-0002-0924-3637; Haider, Sylvia/0000-0002-2966-0534; Kuhn, Ingolf/0000-0003-1691-8249; Svenning, Jens-Christian/0000-0002-3415-0862; Jansen, Florian/0000-0002-0331-5185; Casella, Laura/0000-0003-2550-3010; Schmidt, Marco/0000-0001-6087-6117; Chepinoga, Victor/0000-0003-3809-7453; Petrik, Petr/0000-0001-8518-6737; Willner, Wolfgang/0000-0003-1591-8386; Jansen, Steven/0000-0002-4476-5334; De Sanctis, Michele/0000-0002-7280-6199; Niinemets, Ulo/0000-0002-3078-2192; Pauchard, Anibal/0000-0003-1284-3163; Vibrans, Alexander C./0000-0002-8789-5833; Biurrun, Idoia/0000-0002-1454-0433; De Patta Pillar, Valerio/0000-0001-6408-2891; Phillips, Oliver L/0000-0002-8993-6168; Sibik, Jozef/0000-0002-5949-862X; Lenoir, Jonathan/0000-0003-0638-9582; Venanzoni, Roberto/0000-0002-7768-0468; Gutierrez, Alvaro G./0000-0001-8928-3198; Cayuela, Luis/0000-0003-3562-2662; Nobis, Marcin/0000-0002-1594-2418; Agrillo, Emiliano/0000-0003-2346-8346; Manning, Peter/0000-0002-7940-2023; Venanzoni, Roberto/0000-0002-7768-0468; Virtanen, Risto/0000-0002-8295-8217; Higuchi, Pedro/0000-0002-3855-555X; Sopotlieva, Desislava/0000-0002-9281-7039; Kuzemko, Anna/0000-0002-9425-2756; Hatim, Mohamed/0000-0002-0872-5108; Mencuccini, Maurizio/0000-0003-0840-1477; Enquist, Brian J./0000-0002-6124-7096; De Bie, Els/0000-0001-7679-743X; Samimi, Cyrus/0000-0001-7001-7893; Nowak, Arkadiusz/0000-0001-8638-0208; Jimenez-Alfaro, Borja/0000-0001-6601-9597; Font, Xavier/0000-0002-7253-8905; Levesley, Aurora/0000-0002-7999-5519; Acic, Svetlana/0000-0001-6553-3797; Kattge, Jens/0000-0002-1022-8469; Silc, Urban/0000-0002-3052-699X; Arnst, Elise/0000-0003-2388-7428; Moretti, Marco/0000-0002-5845-3198; Kozub, Lukasz/0000-0002-6591-8045; Kacki, Zygmunt/0000-0002-2241-1631; Fagundez, Jaime/0000-0001-6605-7278; Purschke, Oliver/0000-0003-0444-0882; Martynenko, Vasiliy/0000-0002-9071-3789; Jandt, Ute/0000-0002-3177-3669; Peyre, Gwendolyn/0000-0002-1977-7181; SABATINI, FRANCESCO MARIA/0000-0002-7202-7697; Bruelheide, Helge/0000-0003-3135-0356; Wohlgemuth, Thomas/0000-0002-4623-0894; Onyshchenko, Viktor/0000-0001-9079-7241; Kuzmic, Filip/0000-0002-3894-7115; Ejrnaes, Rasmus/0000-0003-2538-8606; Jirousek, Martin/0000-0002-4293-478X; Noroozi, Jalil/0000-0003-4124-2359; Curran, Michael/0000-0002-1858-5612; Baraloto, Christopher/0000-0001-7322-8581; Ozinga, Wim/0000-0002-6369-7859WOS: 000466421500001Aims Vegetation-plot records provide information on the presence and cover or abundance of plants co-occurring in the same community. Vegetation-plot data are spread across research groups, environmental agencies and biodiversity research centers and, thus, are rarely accessible at continental or global scales. Here we present the sPlot database, which collates vegetation plots worldwide to allow for the exploration of global patterns in taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic diversity at the plant community level. Results sPlot version 2.1 contains records from 1,121,244 vegetation plots, which comprise 23,586,216 records of plant species and their relative cover or abundance in plots collected worldwide between 1885 and 2015. We complemented the information for each plot by retrieving climate and soil conditions and the biogeographic context (e.g., biomes) from external sources, and by calculating community-weighted means and variances of traits using gap-filled data from the global plant trait database TRY. Moreover, we created a phylogenetic tree for 50,167 out of the 54,519 species identified in the plots. We present the first maps of global patterns of community richness and community-weighted means of key traits. Conclusions The availability of vegetation plot data in sPlot offers new avenues for vegetation analysis at the global scale.German Research FoundationGerman Research Foundation (DFG) [DFG FZT 118]; TRY initiative on plant traitsWe are grateful to thousands of vegetation scientists who sampled vegetation plots in the field or digitized them into regional, national or international databases. We also appreciate the support of the German Research Foundation for funding sPlot as one of the iDiv (DFG FZT 118) research platforms, and the organization of three workshops through the sDiv calls. We acknowledge this support with naming the database "sPlot", where the "s" refers to the sDiv synthesis workshops. The study was supported by the TRY initiative on plant traits (http://www.try-db.org). For all further acknowledgements see Appendix S10. We thank Meelis Partel for his very fast and constructive feedback on an earlier version of this manuscript

sPlot:a new tool for global vegetation analyses

Abstract Aims: Vegetation‐plot records provide information on the presence and cover or abundance of plants co‐occurring in the same community. Vegetation‐plot data are spread across research groups, environmental agencies and biodiversity research centers and, thus, are rarely accessible at continental or global scales. Here we present the sPlot database, which collates vegetation plots worldwide to allow for the exploration of global patterns in taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic diversity at the plant community level. Results: sPlot version 2.1 contains records from 1,121,244 vegetation plots, which comprise 23,586,216 records of plant species and their relative cover or abundance in plots collected worldwide between 1885 and 2015. We complemented the information for each plot by retrieving climate and soil conditions and the biogeographic context (e.g., biomes) from external sources, and by calculating community‐weighted means and variances of traits using gap‐filled data from the global plant trait database TRY. Moreover, we created a phylogenetic tree for 50,167 out of the 54,519 species identified in the plots. We present the first maps of global patterns of community richness and community‐weighted means of key traits. Conclusions: The availability of vegetation plot data in sPlot offers new avenues for vegetation analysis at the global scale