Integrating the fungal database in Japan

Ref ID: 19318

Author:

Tsuyoshi Hosoya, Kentaro Hosaka

Author address:

Department of Botany, National Museum of Nature and Science, 4-1-1, Amakubo, Tsukuba, Ibaraki
305-0005, Japan

Full conference title:

Asian Mycological Congress 2013 and the 13th International Marine and Freshwater Mycology Symposium

Date: 19 August 2014

Abstract:

Due to its long longitudinal distance, Japan embraces a wide diversity of organisms. In spite of
a relatively long history of mycobiota inventories in Japan, begun by Shirai, (1905), much information still
remains to be added. The most comprehensive information was recently compiled by Katumoto (2010),
revising the previous inventory by Hara (1954). This historical publication covers all fungal taxa ever
documented in Japan until 2008. The subsequent records are cumulated by the database committee of
the Mycological Society of Japan (MSJ), which are available at the MSJ webpage
(http://www.mycology-jp.org/~msj7/WL_information_J/List-Japan.html). Inventories require the mass
accumulation of information, and advances in information technology and database software have
contributed greatly to progress in this regard. The National Museum of Nature and Science is providing
the specimen information of its own (http://science-net.kahaku.go.jp/specimen_en/collection/), but also
helping in publication of information from other institutes, universities, and museums in Japan. The data
are also being provided to the GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility) and available from its
webpage (http://data.gbif.org/welcome.htm). Geocoded records are becoming more important to discuss
the distribution and biogeography of fungal taxa. Because the GIS information is available only from
recently collected specimens, more attention should be drawn to geocoding of the data. More data
should be incorporated for taxa with special interest, such as endangered and alien species. The
cumulated information will greatly contribute to our understanding of fungal biodiversity in Asia.

Abstract Number: s5-07

Conference Year: 2013

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