Monitoring of the ground-dwelling beetle community and forest floor environment in 22 temperate forests across Japan |
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| Authors: | Shigeru Niwa Ayu Toyota Toshio Kishimoto Kôji Sasakawa Shin Abe Takeshi Chishima Motoki Higa Tsutom Hiura Kosuke Homma Daisuke Hoshino Hideyuki Ida Naoto Kamata Yohei Kaneko Motohiro Kawanishi Kazutaka Kobayashi Kaname Kubota Koichiro Kuraji Takashi Masaki Kaoru Niiyama Mahoko Noguchi Haruto Nomiya Satoshi Saito Michinori Sakimoto Hitoshi Sakio Shigeho Sato Mitsue Shibata Atsushi Takashima Hiroshi Tanaka Naoaki Tashiro Naoko Tokuchi Hisahiro Torikai Toshiya Yoshida |
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| Institution: | 1.Network Center of the Forest and Grassland Survey of the Monitoring Sites 1000 Project, Japan Wildlife Research Center, c/o Tomakomai Experimental Forest,Hokkaido University,Tomakomai,Japan;2.Japan Wildlife Research Center,Tokyo,Japan;3.Department of General Systems Studies, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences,The University of Tokyo,Tokyo,Japan;4.Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Research Council,Tokyo,Japan;5.The University of Tokyo Chichibu Forest, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences,The University of Tokyo,Chichibu,Japan;6.Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute,Tsukuba,Japan;7.Tomakomai Research Station, Field Science Center for Northern Biosphere,Hokkaido University,Tomakomai,Japan;8.Field Center for Sustainable Agriculture and Forestry, Faculty of Agriculture,Niigata University,Sado,Japan;9.Tohoku Research Center,Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute,Morioka,Japan;10.Faculty of Education,Shinshu University,Nagano,Japan;11.Faculty of Education,Kagoshima University,Kagoshima,Japan;12.Botanical Gardens,Tohoku University,Sendai,Japan;13.Faculty of Agriculture,University of Miyazaki,Miyazaki,Japan;14.Ecohydrology Research Institute,The University of Tokyo Forests, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo,Seto,Japan;15.Kyushu Research Center,Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute,Kumamoto,Japan;16.Field Science Education and Research Center,Kyoto University,Kyoto,Japan;17.Shikoku Research Center,Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute,Kochi,Japan;18.Yona Field, Subtropical Field Science Center, Faculty of Agriculture,University of the Ryukyus,Kunigami,Japan;19.Ashoro Research Forest,Kyushu University,Ashoro,Japan;20.Amami Ecosystem Research Group,Amami,Japan;21.Uryu Experimental Forest, Field Science Center for Northern Biosphere,Hokkaido University,Horokanai,Japan;22.Faculty of Agriculture,Kagawa University,Miki,Japan;23.Museum of Natural and Environmental History,Shizuoka,Japan;24.Faculty of Education,Chiba University,Chiba,Japan;25.Faculty of Science,Kochi University,Kochi,Japan;26.Japan International Research Center for Agricultural Sciences,Tsukuba,Japan;27.Fukuoka Institute of Health and Environmental Sciences,Dazaifu,Japan;28.The University of Tokyo Chiba Forest, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences,The University of Tokyo,Kamogawa,Japan;29.Hokkaido Research Center,Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute,Sapporo,Japan;30.Shiiba Research Forest,Kyushu University,Shiiba,Japan |
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| Abstract: | This data paper reports census data of ground-dwelling beetle and other fauna of the forest floor environment; collections were made from a network of 22 forest sites in Japan. To our knowledge, this represents the largest dataset for long-term monitoring of a ground-dwelling beetle community and other taxa in a ground environment in forests, which covers a broad climatic range in the temperate zone and is freely available. The network forms part of the Monitoring Sites 1000 Project launched by the Ministry of the Environment, Japan. It covers subalpine, cool- and warm-temperate and subtropical climatic zones and the four major forest types of Japan. Thirty-three permanent plots usually 1 ha in size were established in old-growth, secondary natural and a few plantation forests. Censuses of the ground-dwelling beetle community were conducted using pitfall trapping and forest floor environment monitoring every year from 2004 to the present. During the initial 9 years of the census (2004–2012), 59,762 beetle individuals (including 3182 larvae) of more than 314 species were recorded. This dataset includes taxonomy and biomass of each beetle individual and each taxonomic group of other invertebrates coincidently captured in pitfall trapping. The dataset also includes data related to ground coverage by forest floor vegetation, dry mass of the accumulated organic litter layer, and carbon and nitrogen contents and cellulose decomposition rate in organic layer and surface mineral soil. The data could be used to investigate geographical patterns and intra- and inter-annual dynamics of individual body mass, populations and community structures of ground-dwelling beetles, and their relationships with the forest floor environment. Furthermore, the data could be analyzed with other open datasets related to tree community dynamics and litter fall continuously measured in the same study plots. This dataset also provides information related to the distribution and average body mass of each beetle species. |
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