Occurrence

Data on coral species occurrences in Japan since 1929

Latest version published by National Museum of Nature and Science, Japan on 09 April 2025 National Museum of Nature and Science, Japan

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Description

This dataset contains the species occurrence record of zooxanthellate reef‐building corals at 1059 sites on the Japanese coast, recorded from 1929 to 2020. We compiled coral occurrence data including 482 species from 162 literature sources, most of which were written in Japanese and published as gray literature in local journals or individual reports. This dataset is published as a data paper in Ecological Research (see https://doi.org/10.1111/1440-1703.12136).

Data Records

The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 29,864 records.

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How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

National Institute for Environmental Studies (2022) Data on coral species occurrences in Japan since 1929. Version 1. National Institute for Environmental Studies. Dataset/Species occurrences.

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The publisher and rights holder of this work is National Museum of Nature and Science, Japan. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC 4.0) License.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: efc206a7-eecd-4a9a-861e-23047ecada62.  National Museum of Nature and Science, Japan publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF Japan.

Keywords

Occurrence; Occurrence

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