Improving knowledge of Asian pteridophytes through DNA sampling of specimens in regional collections

Occurrence Specimen
Latest version published by Taiwan Forestry Research Institute on Nov 4, 2024 Taiwan Forestry Research Institute
Publication date:
4 November 2024
License:
CC-BY 4.0

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Description

The ferns, lycophytes and seed-free vascular plants commonly described as pteridophytes exhibit hyperdiversity in the insular vegetation that often characterizes Asian floras. Despite harboring biodiversity hotspots, these plants and their georegions have been poorly surveyed, particularly in Southeast Asia, where one third of the world's pteridophyte species are concentrated. More than 60 per cent of the approximately 4,500 species lack georeferenced records in GBIF and only 6 per cent have been DNA barcoded.This project aims to increase the available knowledge on Asian pteridophytes by compiling a georeferenced occurrence dataset that includes images, DNA barcodes and other vouchering information from thousands of recent collections, building on the efforts of the Taiwan Pteridophyte Research Group and its Southeast Asian collaborators. The project team will set up a workflow incorporating next-generation sequencing for 1,500 Asian pteridophyte specimens from selected collections in Taiwan, Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia and other Southeast Asian countries that can fill in taxonomic and geographic gaps and represent Asian pteridophyte diversity.Mobilization of and access to these vouchered and georeferenced DNA-derived records will advance further research into the biogeography of pteridophytes and other terrestrial vegetation and support the development of novel approaches to monitor biodiversity along the spatiotemporal scale, including metabarcoding of the invisible diversity held in soil and spore banks.

Data Records

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Occurrence (core)
1494
dnaDerivedData 
2834

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The publisher and rights holder of this work is Taiwan Forestry Research Institute. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 6b9f8685-e080-4330-a211-e61ad6bdbe64.  Taiwan Forestry Research Institute publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Taiwan Biodiversity Information Facility.

Keywords

ferns; lycophytes; Southeast Asia; DNA barcode; next-generation sequencing; Taiwan; Vietnam; Philippines; Malaysia; Specimen

Contacts

Chien-Wen Chen
  • Publisher
  • Data provider
Taiwan Forestry Research Institute
  • No.53, Nanhai Rd.
10066 Taipei City
TW
  • +886-2-23039978
Li-Yaung Kuo
  • Principal Investigator
  • Data provider
Institute of Molecular & Cellular Biology, National Tsing Hua University
  • Room 327, 3F, Life Science Building One No.101, Sec. 2, Guangfu Rd., East Dist.
30013 Hsinchu City
TW
Li-Yaung Kuo
  • Principal Investigator
Institute of Molecular & Cellular Biology, National Tsing Hua University
  • Room 327, 3F, Life Science Building One No.101, Sec. 2, Guangfu Rd., East Dist.
30013 Hsinchu City
30013
TW
Chien-Wen Chen
  • Publisher
  • Contracted assistant researcher
Taiwan Forestry Research Institute
  • No.53, Nanhai Rd.
10066 Taipei City
TW
  • +886-2-23039978

Geographic Coverage

Certain areas among South East Asia.

Bounding Coordinates South West [-9.102, 94.922], North East [25.324, 125.156]

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 2021-09-01 / 2023-02-28

Project Data

No Description available

Title BIFA: Biodiversity Information Fund for Asia
Identifier BIFA6_010
Funding Funded by Ministry of the Environment, Government of Japan.

The personnel involved in the project:

Li-Yaung Kuo
  • Principal Investigator

Sampling Methods

TBC

Study Extent TBC

Method step description:

  1. TBC

Additional Metadata

Alternative Identifiers 6b9f8685-e080-4330-a211-e61ad6bdbe64
https://ipt.taibif.tw/resource?r=bifa-taif-2022