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Title: | Fine-scale distribution of tropical seagrass beds in Southeast Asia |
Identifier: | ERDP-2020-13.1.1 |
Abstract: |
Southeast Asia is a hotspot of global seagrass diversity, offering valuable ecosystem services for human life. However, historically there have been large gaps in the scientific knowledge of the distribution of seagrass beds in this region. Information on the distribution has not been updated in global databases since the publication of the World Seagrass Atlas in 2003, which was based on data mostly obtained up until the late 1990s. We collected more recent data on seagrass bed distribution from 9 ASEAN countries plus southern China and southern Japan, and integrated these data into a GIS-database. A total of 1064 polygon data and 937 points data were uploaded in this paper, which were obtained from 107 scientific articles and reports published after 2000, including those written in local languages. Among them, 7.3 % of the data have associated information on seagrass bed size and 35.3 % have associated information on seagrass species composition. Data obtained from Vietnam, Cambodia, Singapore, Timor-Leste and Southern China cover almost all the coastlines of each country, whereas data for the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia Myanmar, Thailand still have large gaps in areal coverage. The data set has a few points from Brunei Darussalam, the Paracel Islands, Spratly Islands and Pratas Islands, which are areas that we lacked information on for a long time. The obtained data will be useful to understand the current status of seagrass beds and to help facilitate better conservation and management of coastal areas in this region.
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Keywords: |
- ASEAN countries
- Geographic information system (GIS)
- Coastal ecosystem
- Seagrass bed area
- Literature survey
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Involved Parties
Data Set Owners: |
Individual: | Kenji Sudo |
Organization: | Graduate School of Environmental Science, Hokkaido University. |
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Akkeshi Marine Station, Aikappu, |
Akkeshi-town, Hokkaido 088-1113 Japan |
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Data Set Contacts: |
Individual: | Kenji Sudo |
Organization: | Graduate School of Environmental Science, Hokkaido University. |
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Akkeshi Marine Station, Aikappu, Akkeshi-town, Hokkaido, |
088-1113 Japan |
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Associated Parties: |
Individual: | Kenji Sudo |
Organization: | Graduate School of Environmental Science, Hokkaido University. |
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Aikappu 1, Akkeshi,, |
Hokkaido 088-1113 Japan |
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Individual: | Masahiro Nakaoka |
Organization: | Akkeshi Marine Station, Field Science Center for Northern Biosphere, Hokkaido University |
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Aikappu 1, Akkeshi,, |
Hokkaido 088-1113 Japan |
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Data Set Characteristics
Geographic Region: |
Geographic Description: | The geographic scope of this study covers from S 11.010o to N 30.424o in latitude and from E 94.229 o to 140.702 o in longitude (geodetic system: WGS84). The area includes all the coastlines of Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Vietnam, and the southern coasts of China and Japan. The northern boundary is set so that it covers the northern limit of tropical seagrass species; i.e., Fujian province in China (Zheng et al 2013) and the southern part of Kagoshima prefecture in Japan (Nature Conservation Bureau, Environment Agency and Marine Parks Center of Japan, 1994). |
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West: | 94.229 degrees
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East: | 140.702 degrees
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North: | 30.424 degrees
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South: | 11.01 degrees
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Sampling, Processing and Quality Control Methods
Step by Step Procedures
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Methods
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Data Set Usage Rights
This data set is provided under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC-BY 4.0) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Cite this data paper as appropriate credit. |
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