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The dataset, “Biodiversity of urban floras of the Urals and Volga region”, includes data on the composition of 19 urban floras located in the Sverdlovsk, Samara and Ulyanovsk regions, the Republic of Bashkortostan and the Udmurt Republic. The studied cities, according to the classification adopted in the Russian Federation, differ in population size into: small, with a population of less than 50,000 people (Kambarka, Krasnoufimsk, Mozhga, Novoulyanovsk, Sengiley, Turinsk), medium, with a population of 50,000-100,000 people (Votkinsk, Zhigulevsk, Ishimbai, Kumertau, Meleuz), large, with a population of 100,000-250,000 people (Dimitrovgrad, Kamensk-Uralsky, Salavat, Sterlitamak), very large, with a population of 250,000-1,000,000 people (Izhevsk, Tolyatti, Ulyanovsk) and a city with a population of over 1 million people – Yekaterinburg. In the urban flora 2050 plant species were recorded, and synonymy was aligned with The Plant List (http://www.theplantlist.org). The dataset provides information about the distribution of each species in studied urban floras as well as grouping of species into native plants, neophytes and archaeophytes. The general list of vascular plants of the analyzed urban flora is compiled on the basis of the authors' own field research. All types of habitats (natural, semi-natural and artificial) were examined. Our direct observations were supplemented with information from herbarium collections: the Museum of the Institute of Plant and Animal Ecology of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SVER), Ural Federal University (UFU), Kurgan State University, Udmurt State University (UDU), South Ural Botanical Garden-Institute, Institute of Ecology of the Volga River Basin of the Russian Academy of Sciences (PVB RAS). Published sources were also consulted (Ilminskikh et al., 1998; Rakov, 2003; Rakov, Saxonov, 2008; Kornilov et al., 2012; Mogutova Mountain., 2013; Rakov et al., 2013; Golovanov, Abramova, 2014a; 2014b; Baranova, Bralgina, 2015; Golovanov et al., 2015; Golovanov et al., ... |