154947b6-0e29-40da-962f-a0d6e3f12a07 https://cloud.gbif.org/asia/resource?r=siflora_2012_nmns_tw siflora_occurrence_2012_nmns_tw Chihjen Ko

Taitung City 950 TW

cko@oab.tw 0000-0001-5912-1761 Aleck Yang National Museum of Natural Science

Taichung City TW

0000-0002-4630-4822 Jing-Fu Tsai National Museum of Natural Science

Taichung City TW

0000-0003-3076-3976 curator 2026-04-05 eng The Solomon Islands is a country in Oceania, consisting of nearly 1,000 islands and covering a land area of 28,400 square kilometres. It is located in the southwest Pacific at the northeast end of Australia and east of Papua New Guinea. Its geographical location, tropical climate, and mountainous topography provide it with a rich and diverse flora, harbouring over 7,000 vascular plant species. However, in recent decades, the coverage of primary forests has declined rapidly due to logging and the increasing coverage of economic plantations. The situation has seriously threatened the country's biodiversity. Since 2012, The “Census and Classification of Plant Resources in the Solomon Islands” project has been conducting collaboratively by Solomon Islands (Ministry of Forestry and Honiara Botanical Gardens), Taiwan (International Cooperation and Development Fund, National Museum of Natural Science, Taiwan Forestry Research Institute, National Tsing Hua University, and Koo Botanical Conservation Center), and Japan (Makino Botanical Garden). This project aims to bring awareness to the abundant plant resources and comprehensive flora of the country and to facilitate plant conservation. During the expedition in 2012 and 2013, over 15,000 sheets of specimens representing about 700 species of vascular plants were collected. The results provide an insight into the spectacular floral diversity of the Solomon Islands.This dataset is currently being worked on to enrich its metadata. Any comments and suggestions are welcome. Please reach out to the resource creator. Thanks. Occurrence GBIF Dataset Type Vocabulary: http://rs.gbif.org/vocabulary/gbif/dataset_type_2015-07-10.xml Specimen GBIF Dataset Subtype Vocabulary: http://rs.gbif.org/vocabulary/gbif/dataset_subtype.xml Coordinate values are as originally recorded and may be of low precision. Due to the narrow land area of many Solomon Islands, rounded coordinates frequently fall offshore, triggering GBIF's continent and country coordinate mismatch flags. However, the coordinates still need further investigation to decide whether updates are needed. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License. Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International https://spdx.org/licenses/CC-BY-4.0.html CC-BY-4.0 https://cloud.gbif.org/asia/archive.do?r=siflora_2012_nmns_tw The expedition was conducted in the Solomon Islands. 156 164.007667 -6 -12.010944 1945-10-15 2015-08-26 (Copied from Chen CW, Perrie L, Glenny D, Chiou WL. 2017. Sol amazing: lycophytes and ferns of the Solomon Islands. National Museum of Natural Science, Taichung, 550 pp.)This project was initiated and carried out by the team at Taiwan National Museum of Natural Science. Special thanks to Tsung-Yu Aleck Yang and Hsiu-Chun Huang for their administrative assistance. Financial supports from Taiwan International Cooperation and Development Fund (ICDF) and Dr. Cecilia Koo Botanic Conservation Center (KBCC) for field works and equipments are also deeply acknowledged.Generous supports are provided by many people and organizations in the Solomon Islands and the following persons require special mention: Sheun-Pyng Shiue, Ho-Chang Cheng, and Li-Chu Chien of Taiwan Technical Mission (TTM), Yu-Chau Lin of Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Tsung-Hsien Lo of Kolombangara Forestry Product Limited (KFPL), Chia-Hong Wei of Taisen International Enterprise Ltd., Fred Pitisopa, Myknee Sirikolo, and Peter Kosui of the Solomon Islands Ministry of Forestry & Research.We are grateful for the constant company of Tian-Chuan Hsu and Moffat Farnerii during the field work. Together we enjoyed many tough and fruitful trips all around the country. The field work would not have been possible without the help of various landowners and communities. We thank them for kindly providing the access permission and assistance during our expeditions. Bigfala tenkiu tumus lo iufala everiwan.We thank several botanists who provided valuable taxonomic assistance on various groups: Alan Smith (Thelypteridaceae), Ashley Field (Lycopodiaceae), Atsushi Ebihara (Hymenophyllaceae), Barbara Parris (grammitids), Ho-Ming Chang (Lycopodiaceae and Selaginellaceae), Joel Nitta (Hymenophyllaceae), John Thomson (Pteridium), Marcus Lehnert (Cyatheaceae and Dicksoniaceae), Peter Hovenkamp (Nephrolepidaceae), Samuli Lehtonen (Lindsaeaceae), Shi-Yong Dong (bird's nest ferns and Tectariaceae), and Thien Tam Luong (Saccolomataceae). We also thank Michael Hassler for sharing the data for ferns in Papua New Guinea. Two reviewers, Barbara Parris and Ralf Knapp, provided invaluable feedback which is deeply appreciated.Assistance and permissions were also provided by the curators and staff of the following herbaria: BISH, BO, BSIP, K, NSW, TAIF, TNM, WELT, and USP. We especially thank Barbara Kennedy of Bishop Museum, Matt Renner of National Herbarium of New South Wales, Wita Wardani of Herbarium Bogoriense, and Ruei-Fen Pan, Te-Yen Tang, and Zi-Cheng Du of Taiwan Forestry Research Institute for their kind help.Lastly, the first author would like to thank his family, especially his mother Su-Ching Cheng who taught him to appreciate and respect nature, his cousin Tzu-Yuan Lin who inspired his interest in ferns, and his wife Viet Dai Dang who always gives him the warmest support. asNeeded Chihjen Ko

TW

cko@oab.tw 0000-0001-5912-1761 2026-03-26T13:43:11.317+00:00 dataset 154947b6-0e29-40da-962f-a0d6e3f12a07/v1.4.xml