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| Title: | Monitoring records of plant species in the Hakone region of Fuji-Hakone-Izu National Park, Japan, 2001-2010 |
| Identifier: | ERDP-2013-01.1.1 |
| Abstract: |
The monitoring of species occurrences is a crucial aspect of biodiversity conservation, and regional volunteerism can serve as a powerful tool in such endeavors. The Fuji-Hakone-Izu National Park in the Hakone region of Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, boasts a volunteer association of approximately 100 members. These volunteers have monitored plant species occurrences from 2001 to the present along several hiking trails in the region. In this paper, I present the annual observation records of plant occurrences in Hakone from 2001 to 2010. This data set includes 1071 species of plants from 151 families. Scientific names follow the Y List. And this data set includes several threatened plant species. Data files are formatted based on the Darwin Core and Darwin Core Archives, which are defined by the Biodiversity Information Standards (BIS) or Biodiversity Information Standards Taxonomic Databases Working Group (TDWG). Data files filled on required and some additional item on Darwin Core. The data set can download from author’s personal Web site as of July 2012. These data will soon be published for the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) through GBIF Japan. All users can then access the data from the GBIF portal site.
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| Keywords: |
- Civil scientist
- Darwin Core
- GBIF
- Hakone
- Monitoring
- Observation records
- Occurrences
- Threatened plant species
- Park volunteer
- Vascular plants
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Involved Parties
| Data Set Owners: |
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Organization: | Hakone Park Volunteer |
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| 164, kyu-fudaba, moto-hakone, |
| Hakone town, Kanagawa pref. Japan |
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Individual: | OSAWA Takeshi |
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Organization: | National Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences / Hakone Park Volunteer |
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| 3-1-3, Kannondai, |
| Tsukuba city, Ibaraki pref. Japan |
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Data Set Characteristics
| Geographic Region: |
| Geographic Description: | Hakone town |
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Bounding Coordinates:
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| West: | 138.98 degrees
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| East: | 139.1 degrees
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| North: | 35.27 degrees
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| South: | 35.19 degrees
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Sampling, Processing and Quality Control Methods
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Step by Step Procedures
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Description:
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Monitoring methods
Species occurrences were observed along eight hiking trails within the regions “Hakone-1,” “Hakone-2,” and “Hakone-4” in the town of Hakone (Fig. 1b). Observers walked along the hiking trails and recorded the plant species that they found, with particular focus on flowering species. Thus, not all plant species were always recorded. Observations were conducted at each hiking trail once or twice per month every year by at least two individual volunteers. Observations occasionally did not occur due to the lack of participants or to closure of the hiking trails. Typically, several volunteers were in charge of each hiking trail, and these members rarely changed.
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Publication data content
In this data paper, I have published the family, species name, observed region, and observation year for each species. These data are described in the “ScientificName,” “Family,” “Locality,” and “EarliestDateCollected” data sheets, respectively. In addition, I present local (Japanese) family and species names in the “Wamei” and “Wa_kamei” data sheets, respectively. The specific locations of the observed species are not disclosed to avoid unnecessary collections, which are often a problem in Hakone, especially for threatened plant species (Osawa and Inohara 2008). Thus, new records were accumulations of records in each region. More detailed records that include, for example, the specific hiking courses of observed species and years can be requested from the contact person.
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Data verification
All raw data were recorded using only Japanese names. Family and scientific names were ascertained as described using the Y List (http://bean.bio.chiba-u.jp/bgplants/ylist_main.html; accessed 15 February 2013). If the Japanese standard name could not be found in the Y List, the data were removed from the analysis. Family names were according to the Engler family described in the Y list.
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Taxonomy and systematics
All species were identified using references based on morphological forms by members of the Hakone Park Volunteer Association.
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Data format
All data sets were formatted according to Darwin Core and Darwin Core Archives, which are defined by the Biodiversity Information Standards (BIS) or Taxonomic Databases Working Group (TDWG); these are the data standards for publishing and integrating biodiversity information (Wieczorek et al. 2012). Darwin Core allows users to record the occurrence of various organisms worldwide, e.g., specimen records or observational records with environmental associations. Darwin Core is one de facto standard for describing species occurrence records (Osawa et al. 2011). The philosophy for the development of Darwin Core is to maintain a standard that is as simple and open as possible and to develop terms only in cases of a shared demand (Wieczorek et al. 2012). Darwin Core has a relatively long history of community development and is widely used in the field of biodiversity informatics (Canhos et al. 2004).
The published data are provided in two types, Darwin Core and Darwin Core Archives. Darwin Core data have only species occurrence records with both English and Japanese names, while Darwin Core Archives data have both species occurrence records and basic metadata using English only. Darwin Core occurrence records are provided as Unicode text files, and occurrence records within the Darwin Core Archives are provided as UTF-8 text files.
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Data Set Usage Rights
| All published data can be used freely with reference to the data paper. In no event shall the authors or the data set owners be liable for any loss of profits or for any indirect, incidental, or consequential damages arising from the use of the data set. Data sets can be downloaded from the author’s personal Web site (http://osawa.nomaki.jp/; accessed 9 April 2013). Detailed information about the specific locations of observed species can be obtained from the contact person. |
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