Grasslands and coastal habitats of southern Ukraine: A - steppe depression ("pody"); B - grey dune with Leymus racemosus subsp. sabulosus, Odontarrhena borzaeana and Carex colchica; C - sandy mesic grassland with Scirpoides holoschoenus and Anacamptis palustris; D - desert steppes with Artemisia taurica, A. lerchiana and Tanacetum millefolium agg.; E – pioneer halo-nitrophilous vegetation on the coastline of the Yahorlyk Bay with Cakile euxina and Crambe pontica; F – dry bunchgrass steppes on the Syvash shore with Stipa lessingiana and Festuca valesiaca aggr.; G – subsaline steppe, Potiivka site of the Black Sea Reserve with Pastinaca clausii, Agropyron pectinatum, Halimione verrucifera; H – sandy steppe with dominated Stipa borysthenica in the Black Sea Reserve; I – steppe gully landscape in the Kamianska Sich National Park; J – community with Stipa lessingiana and Salvia nutans in Kamianska Sich National Park (photos A, G, H - D. Vynokurov, B, I, J - D. Borovyk, C - O. Kucher, D-F Dengler).