Endemic species in Taiwan

Kun-Chi Lai1, Jack Lin1, Jack Lin2

1 Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica, 128 Sec 2, Academia Rd., Nangang Dist., 115, Taipei, Chinese Taipei; 2 Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica, 128 Sec 2, Academia Rd., Nangang Dist., 115, Taipei, Chinese Taipei

Corresponding author(s): Kun-Chi Lai (east0122@gate.sinica.edu.tw), Jack Lin (jacklin@gate.sinica.edu.tw)

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Abstract

Taiwan is a continental island, located between the southeastern coastline of mainland China and Japan's Ryukyu Islands. With diverse terrain and wide range of vertical elevations, Taiwan has tropical, subtropical, temperate, and frigid climate zones. These unique geographical conditions, coupled with the effect of habitat isolation, gave Taiwan its high biodiversity.

The endemic species of Taiwan denotes the native plants and animals of Taiwan and its offshore islands such as Penghu Archipelago, Orchid Island, Green Island, etc. Even though the areas are small, the Checklist of Taiwan (TaiBNET) lists around 50,000 valid species scientific names. Among them, 8,000 are endemic species (including endemic subspecies and varietas), showing the abundance of Taiwan’s endemic Species. TaiBNET also provides information on these species, such as their scientific names (including authors and years), common names, and synonyms. Through Taiwan Biodiversity Information Facility (TaiBIF), the information on these endemic species are published and then shared and exchanged with other GBIF participants. Users can use keywords to link to other websites with relevant information. All these efforts will result in the circulation and utilization of information in the areas of research, education and conservation.

Keywords: Checklist, Inventoryregional

Data published through GBIF: http://taibif.tw/ipt/resource.do?r=taibnet_endemic

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: Taiwan island and adjacent islets.
Coordinates: 20°26'24''N and 26°55'48''N Latitude; 116°12'36''E and 124°36'36''E Longitude 

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive Endemic species in Taiwan
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: http://taibif.tw/ipt/archive.do?r=taibnet_endemic
Publication date of data: 2014-03-25
Language: English

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2011-08-11
Hierarchy level: Dataset