Bats in the mountain areas of Taiwan

Hao Chih Kuo1, Stephen Rossiter2, Shiang Fan Chen3, Hao Chih Kuo4, Joe Chun-Chia Huang5, Tigga Kingston6, Gábor Csorba7

1 Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica, , Taiwan; 2 School of Biological & Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, , United Kingdom; 3 Center for General Education, National Taipei University, , Taiwan; 4 Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan; 5 School of Environmental and Natural Resource Sciences, Faculty of Science and Technology, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, ; 6 Southeast Asian Bat Conservation and Research Unit, , United States; 7 Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest, Hungary

Corresponding author(s): Hao Chih Kuo (gorfniar@mail2000.com.tw)Stephen Rossiter (s.j.rossiter@qmul.ac.uk)Shiang Fan Chen (shiangfan@gmail.com), Hao Chih Kuo (gorfniar@mail2000.com.tw)

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Resource Citation

Kuo H C, Rossiter S, Chen S F (2020): Bats in the mountain areas of Taiwan. v1.5. Southeast Asian Bat Conservation Research Unit. Dataset/Occurrence. https://cloud.gbif.org/bifa/resource?r=bifa04-24-18&v=1.5

Abstract

Bat diversity from the mountain areas in Taiwan

Keywords: Occurrence, Observation, Occurrence

Project details

Project title: Implementation of acoustics to fill the gaps of bat biodiversity information for Southeast Asia
Personnel: Joe Chun Chia Huang, Hao Chih Kuo
Funding: GBIF-BIFA
Study area descriptions/descriptor: This data set is one of data assembled through the BIFA04-24 Project, which covered primarily SE Asia and nearby countries, e.g. Taiwan. This particular data is focused on bats from the mountain areas in Taiwan

Data published through GBIF: https://cloud.gbif.org/bifa/resource?r=bifa04-24-18

Taxonomic coverage

General taxonomic coverage description: All bats were identified to species. at least 22 species belonging to 13 genera of 4 families of bats (Mammalia: order Chiroptera) are reported. However, there are a few with identification uncertainty due to the restriction of taxonomy dilemma in the study area

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: Mountain areas in Taiwan with elevations range from 130-2800 m asl
Coordinates: 22°24'14.4''N and 25°11'6''N Latitude; 120°30'3.6''E and 121°46'44.4''E Longitude 

Formation period: 2009-2010

Methods

Method step description: Species data were extracted from capture records in the field note.
Study extent description: This data set is one of data assembled through the BIFA04_24 Project, which covered primarily SE Asia and nearby countries, e.g. Taiwan. This particular data is focused on bats from the mountain areas in Taiwan
Sampling description: Bats were captured using  harp traps along available trials and streams in the mountains
Quality control description: The data were first assembled in a standard form designed for the Asian Bat Call Database (ABCD).The contributor(s) has been trained via a workshop fund by a GBIF-BIFA grant to use controlled language for data entry. The contents and format have been reviewed by the BIFA04-24 project investigator, Dr. Joe Chun-Chia Huang, and the ABCD manager, Dr. Tamas Golfol, under the supervision of Dr. Gabor Csorba from Hungarian Natural History Museum and Dr. Tigga Kingston from Southeast Asian Bat Conservation and Research Unit. The taxonomy of the species records has been carefully reviewed by Dr. Gabor Csorba which is very experienced of bat taxonomy in Asia. After all reviews and data cleaning, the data is migrated and reformatted using Darwin Core with support from the help desk (Miss Melissa Liu) of Taibif.

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive Bats in the mountain areas of Taiwan
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: https://cloud.gbif.org/bifa/archive.do?r=bifa04-24-18
Publication date of data: 2020-10-02
Language: English
Licences of use: Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 License

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2020-03-27
Hierarchy level: Dataset

References
Kuo, H.C., Chen, S.F., Fang, Y.P., Flanders, J. and Rossiter, S.J., 2014. Comparative rangewide phylogeography of four endemic Taiwanese bat species. Molecular Ecology, 23(14), pp.3566-3586. doi: 10.1111/mec.12838.