Phytogeographic regions of Ukraine according to the "Flora Fungorum Ucrainicae"

Origin of the data

This regionalization was originally published by Heluta (1989), to illustrate the distribution of powdery mildew fungi across Ukraine, and further was used in the series "Flora Fungorum Ucrainicae", as well as individual publications and thesis in Mycology. The regionalization was based mainly on the current at that time Geobotanical zonation of the URSR (Barbarych et. al, 1977).
Since both names and accepted abbreviations of regions originally were in Russian, we adopted the translation made by Akulov et al. (2003), with some additions from a later publication by Prylutskyi & Chvikov (2020):
CF – Carpathian Forests, DGMS – Donetsk Gramineous-Meadow Steppe, FSCr – Forest-Steppe Crimea, KFS – Kharkiv Forest-Steppe, LFS – Left Bank Forest-Steppe, LGS – Left Bank Gramineous Steppe, LGMS – Left Bank GramineousMeadow Steppe, LP – Left Bank Polissya, MRF – Middle-Russian Forests, MCr – Mountain Crimea, PF – Precarpathian Forests, RF – Roztocze Forests, RFS – Right Bank Forest-Steppe, RGS – Right Bank Gramineous Steppe, RGMS – Right Bank Gramineous-Meadow Steppe, RP – Right Bank Polissya, SP – Small Polissya, SSCr – South Seaside of Crimea, SGMS – Starobilsk Gramineous-Meadow Steppe, SCr – Steppe Crimea, TR – Transcarpathia, VFS – Volyn Forest-Steppe, WFS – Western Forest-Steppe, WP – Western Polissya, WUF – West-Ukrainian Forests, WS – Wormwood Steppe.

UPD: Ukrainian names and abbreviations, as well as English names of the regions, updated according to Heluta, 2023.

Dataset description

Dataset (zip-archive) contains GIS vector layers with the polygons of regions, in the following formats: Geopackage, KML, and Esri shapefile. Polygons have been drawn manually using QGIS software, following verbal descriptions of the borders of regions from Heluta (1989).
CRS: EPSG:3857 - WGS 84 / Pseudo-Mercator
Charset Encoding: UTF-8

Attribute table's fields descriptions

fid - Unique identifier for each polygon
Name - Accepted abbreviated name for the region in Ukrainian
NameEng - Abbreviated name for the region, translated into English
NameFullUA - Full name of a region, in Ukrainian
NameFul - Full name of a region translated into English
NatZone - Natural zone according to the source (Heluta, 1989), in Ukrainian
Ecoregions - Name of the Terrestrial Ecoregion (TEOW) (Olson et al., 2001), which covers most of the area of a given region
Note: KML file has additional system fields, not contain attribute information.

References

Heluta, V.P. (2023) A critical revision of the powdery mildew fungi (Erysiphaceae, Ascomycota) of Ukraine: Erysiphe sect. Microsphaera. Ukrainian Botanical Journal. 2023. 80 (3). https://doi.org/10.15407/ukrbotj80.03.199

Heluta, V.P. (1989) Powdery Mildews. Flora Fungorum Ucrainicae. Kyiv: Naukova dumka [In Russian: Гелюта, В.П. (1989) Флора грибов Украины: Мучнисторосяные грибы. Киев: Наукова думка]

Barbarych, A.I. (Ed.) (1977)Geobotanical zonation of the URSR. Kyiv: Naukova Dumka [in Ukrainian: Геоботанічне районування Української РСР. Київ: Наукова думка]

Akulov, O.Yu.; Usichenko, A.S.; Leontyev, D.V.; Yurchenko, E.O.; Prydiuk, M.P. (2003) Annotated checklist of aphyllophoroid fungi of Ukraine. Mycena 2:1–76.

Chvikov, V.; Prylutskyi, О. (2020) Annotated checklist of Hygrophoraceae (Agaricales, Basidiomycota) of Ukraine. Biodivers. Ecol. Exp. Biol. 22, 6–23. https://doi.org/10.34142/2708-5848.2020.22.2.01

Olson, D. M., Dinerstein, E., Wikramanayake, E. D., Burgess, N. D., Powell, G. V. N., Underwood, E. C., D'Amico, J. A., Itoua, I., Strand, H. E., Morrison, J. C., Loucks, C. J., Allnutt, T. F., Ricketts, T. H., Kura, Y., Lamoreux, J. F., Wettengel, W. W., Hedao, P., Kassem, K. R. 2001. Terrestrial ecoregions of the world: a new map of life on Earth. Bioscience 51(11):933-938.