Database of Native Plants in Taiwan

Kuo-Fang Chung1, Tsui-Ya Liu1, Kun-Chi Lai2

1 Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica, No. 128, Sec. 2, Academia Rd., Nankang Dist., 11574, Taipei, Taiwan; 2 

Corresponding author(s): Kuo-Fang Chung (bochung@gate.sinica.edu.tw), Tsui-Ya Liu (boya@gate.sinica.edu.tw)

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Abstract

The Database of Native Plants in Taiwan is a comprehensive database of the vascular plants of Taiwan (including outlying islands) and eastern Asia. It consists of three databases: Specimen Database, Image Database and Distribution Database. The collection focuses on Asteraceae, Begoniaceae, Commelinaceae, Lysimachia (Primulaceae), Asarum (Aristolochiaceae), Amorphophallus (Araceae), Orchidaceae, Rubiaceae, Parthenocissus (Euphorbiaceae), Theaceae and ferns. The work is funded by Taiwan e-Learning and Digital Archives Program (TELDAP).

Keywords: Vascular plant, Specimen, Occurrence, TELDAP, Taiwan, Specimen

Project details

Project title: Digital Archives of Taiwan Native Plants Database
Personnel: Ching-I Peng
Funding: Academia Sinica
Taiwan e-Learning and Digital Archives Program(TELDAP)

Data published through GBIF: https://ipt.taibif.tw/resource?r=hast

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: Taiwan
Coordinates: 19°46'48''N and 26°37'12''N Latitude; 118°19'12''E and 124°36'36''E Longitude 

Temporal coverage: 1900 - 2013

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive Database of Native Plants in Taiwan
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: https://ipt.taibif.tw/archive.do?r=hast
Publication date of data: 2020-11-13
Language: English
Licences of use: Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 License

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2014-02-21
Hierarchy level: Dataset