Data files associated with: Phillips, L. M., Leihy, R. I, & S. L. Chown. Improving Species-Based Area Protection in Antarctica. In preparation.

Area protection is crucial to the conservation of the Antarctic environment. Antarctic Specially Protected Areas (ASPAs) were introduced by the Antarctic Treaty Consultative Parties as a conservation tool to protect regions based on certain values and criteria. One of the criteria for area protection is the type locality (the place from which a species was first described) of any species (Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty, Annex V, Article 3, 2d). Yet, there is currently no list of type localities for Antarctic species, so determining whether this target is being fulfilled or not has not been possible. <br>We compiled a comprehensive inventory of all Antarctic terrestrial and freshwater animals, lichens, bryophytes and vascular plants that occur south of 60°S (for rationale on which taxa were included in the database, please refer to the paper methods). Species with type localities south of 60°S (i.e. the Antarctic Treaty Area) that could be identified to a high resolution (≤ 25 km^2) area were used to evaluate Antarctic type locality representation in the current ASPA network, and to propose a series of 105 candidate protected areas that would be required to protect the type localities that are currently unprotected. <br>Here, we publish the Antarctic Type Localities dataset (xml), code (.R), and shape files (.shp) for the proposed candidate ASPAs that could be established to protect the remaining type localities not captured within the current ASPA network.<br>Temporal coverage: 1753 - July 2021<br>Spatial coverage: Latitude: -60° (Northernmost) to -90° (Southernmost); Longitude: -180° (Westernmost) to 180° (Easternmost)

区域保护对于南极生态系统的保护至关重要。南极特别保护区（Antarctic Specially Protected Areas, ASPAs）由南极条约协商方设立，作为基于特定价值与判定标准开展保护的工具。区域保护的核心标准之一为任一物种的模式产地（type locality，即某物种首次被正式描述的地理位点），该标准出自《南极条约环境保护议定书》附件五第三条第2d款。然而目前尚无南极物种模式产地的官方名录，因此无法评估该保护目标是否得以实现。
我们编制了南纬60°以南所有南极陆生与淡水动物、地衣、苔藓植物以及维管植物的全面名录（关于数据库纳入类群的具体依据，请参阅论文方法部分）。针对可被精确定位至≤25平方千米高精度区域的、分布于南纬60°以南（即南极条约管辖区域）的模式产地物种，我们用以评估当前南极特别保护区网络对南极模式产地的覆盖情况，并提出105处候选保护区，以填补当前未受保护的模式产地的保护空白。
在此，我们发布南极模式产地数据集（xml）、代码文件（.R）以及拟设立的候选南极特别保护区的形状文件（.shp），旨在保护当前南极特别保护区网络尚未覆盖的剩余未受保护模式产地。
时间覆盖范围：1753年 — 2021年7月
空间覆盖范围：纬度：最北端-60°至最南端-90°；经度：最西端-180°至最东端180°