Japan Initiative for Biodiversity Information

The new data paper is published in the journal “Biodiversity Data Journal” online version.

This is the result of three years of spider monitoring in natural and artificial forests on Yakushima Island, where specimens were organized and label information was made available as open data.

Specimen records of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) by monthly census for 3 years in forest areas of Yakushima Island, Japan

Authors: Takeshi Osawa (Institute for Agro-environmental Sciences, Tsukuba, Japan) et al.

Data is available on GBIF portal.