A dataset on the diversity of forest vascular epiphytes in China

doi:10.17520/biods.2022332

Abstract

Abstract:

Vascular epiphytes are abundant in tropical and subtropical forest ecosystems. Vascular epiphytes are often neglected in biodiversity surveys owing to the challenges they pose for investigators. There is no comprehensive national checklist of vascular epiphyte species in China so far. In this study, we reviewed the literature on Chinese vascular epiphytes from 1982 to 2022 and obtained the relevant information for epiphytes. We checked and corrected this information according to the data of Species 2000 China Node. Finally, we obtained the taxonomic and distribution information of 1,739 species of vascular epiphytes, belonging to 246 genera and 49 families. As the first national checklist of Chinese vascular epiphytes, this checklist can provide important data for forest biodiversity conservation, as well as the study of evolutionary biology, biogeography and macroecology, and other life science disciplines.

Database/Dataset Profile

Title	A dataset on the diversity of forest vascular epiphytes in China
Authors	Zixiao Dai, Guoke Chen, Naili Zhang, Keping Ma
Corresponding author	Naili Zhang (zhangnaili@bjfu.edu.cn)
Time range	1982-2022
Geographical scope	3°51ʹ-53°33ʹ N, 73°33ʹ-135°05ʹ E
Spatial resolution	District (province)
File size	396.86 KB
Data volume	2,007 records
Data format	*.xlsx
Data link	http://www.dataopen.info/home/datafile/index/id/274 http://doi.org/10.24899/do.202211004 https://www.biodiversity-science.net/fileup/1005-0094/DATA/2022332.zip
Database/Dataset composition	The dataset consists of two subsets in total. The subsets are recorded as (1) The checklist of forest vascular epiphytes in China.xlsx, and the data volume is 1,739; (2) Reference list.xlsx, and the data volume is 268.

Key words: Chinese forest, geographic distribution, vascular epiphytes, species diversity, species checklist

Zixiao Dai, Guoke Chen, Naili Zhang, Keping Ma. A dataset on the diversity of forest vascular epiphytes in China[J]. Biodiv Sci, 2022, 30(11): 22332.

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