Aquatic vascular plants in Japanese lakes

作者：Nishihiro Jun^*; Akasaka Munemitsu; Ogawa Mifuyu; Takamura Noriko

来源：Ecological Research, 2014, 29(3): 369-369.

DOI：10.1007/s11284-014-1139-0

• Biodiversity
• Conservation
• Floating-leaved plant
• Free-floating plant
• Freshwater
• Long-term monitoring
• Macrophytes
• Species diversity
• Submerged plant
• Taxon richness

This data paper describes the native vascular aquatic plant floras of 268 Japanese lakes recorded from 1899-2011. The data were compiled from 201 literature sources, most of which were written in Japanese and published in local journals or individual reports rather than in major scientific journals. The literature was searched using web-based services (i.e., Google Scholar, http://scholar.google.com/; CiNii, http://ci.nii.ac.jp/en; JDreamII, http://pr.jst.go.jp/jdream2/; and ISI, http://apps.webofknowledge.com) and by private communication with experts or local governments. Scientific names were consolidated under currently-accepted nomenclature. Four datasets, FloraDB, LakeDB, SpeciesDB, and LiteratureDB, were created to include records of the flora of each lake in each year, the names and locations of the lakes, the scientific names and synonyms of the aquatic vascular plants, and a literature list, respectively. These data can be used to study long-term changes in the species composition and/or richness of aquatic plants in Japanese lakes.

• 出版日期2014-5