Description
Ground beetles of suborder Adephaga are often considered bioindicators of natural environments because their habitats and abundances strongly depend upon environmental factors. Although their importance and usefulness are already known, there are limited data regarding voucher specimens in Japan. Biodiversity data based on voucher specimens are of high quality and reliability. In this data paper, we compile the records of Caraboidea collected mainly by Dr. Kazuo Tanaka. We also detail the time and locality of collection based on the labels of specimens deposited in the Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences, National Agriculture and Food Research Organization, Japan. This collection facility contains 15,675 records of 673 species collected from 1947 to 1997. The complete data set for this abstract published in the Data Paper section of the journal is available in electronic format in Ecological Research Data Paper Archives at http://db.cger.nies.go.jp/JaLTER/ER_DataPapers/archives/2020/ERDP-2020-17.
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 15,675 records.
This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.
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How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Ecological Research Data Paper Archives at http://db.cger.nies.go.jp/JaLTER/ER_DataPapers/archives/2020/ERDP-2020-17.
Rights
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The publisher and rights holder of this work is National Institute of Genetics, ROIS. 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: 4407f212-7285-4d59-b3c8-cda206bb4657. National Institute of Genetics, ROIS publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF Japan.
Keywords
Adephaga; bio-indicator; GBIF; ground beetles; identified specimen; voucher specimen
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Geographic Coverage
This specimen collections were conducted in whole places of Japan, Hokkaido, Honsyu, Shikoku, Kyusyu and the other island regions including Ryukyu, Ogasawara, Izu, Goto etc.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [29.535, 129.023], North East [46.438, 152.578] |
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Temporal Coverage
| Formation Period | 1947-1997 |
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Project Data
Dr. Kazuo Tanaka donated his entire collection of carabid beetles to the Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences, NARO, Japan. He collected the specimens primarily for his research across Japan. Some specimens were collected from other countries, and their data were thus not included in a previously published specimen list (Yoshimatsu et al. 2018).
| Title | Dr. Kazuo Tanaka collection |
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Sampling Methods
Dr. Kazuo Tanaka donated his entire collection of carabid beetles to the Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences, NARO, Japan. He collected the specimens primarily for his research across Japan. Some specimens were collected from other countries, and their data were thus not included in a previously published specimen list (Yoshimatsu et al. 2018).
| Study Extent | This specimen collections were conducted in whole places of Japan, Hokkaido, Honsyu, Shikoku, Kyusyu and the other island regions including Ryukyu, Ogasawara, Izu, Goto etc. |
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| Quality Control | Dr. Kazuo Tanaka identified all species using references based on morphological characters. Mr. Noboru Ito identified some specimens when the list was compiled (Yoshimatsu et al. 2018). |
Method step description:
- Scientific names follow Löbl and Smetana (2003). Location information based on the labels of each specimen was verified using maps created by the Geospatial Information Authority of Japan (http://www.gsi.go.jp/ accessed at July 31, 2019).
Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | 4407f212-7285-4d59-b3c8-cda206bb4657 |
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| https://www.gbif.jp/ipt/resource?r=tanaka_col |