A dataset of diversity and distribution of rodents and shrews in China.xls

The rodents and shrews are important reservoirs for a large number of
zoonotic pathogens. Here by performing literature review, we determined
the occurrence and distribution of rodents and shrews in China at three
scales including province, prefecture and county levels. The
peer-reviewed literatures published in both English and Chinese were
collected, standard procedures were applied in field surveys, websites
and reference books to remove duplicates, and the spatial and diversity
data of rodent and shrew species were extracted. The dataset contains
13,349 records of geo-referenced occurrences for 233 rodents and shrews
distributed over 1,566 locations distinguished. As pathogens continue to
emerge from rodents and shrews, this dataset could assist efforts to
put preliminary bounds around a variety of spatial analyses of rodents
and shrews, facilitate a better understanding of the transmission risk
of the pathogens they carry, and be helpful for assessing the risk of
future emergence of rodent-borne zoonoses.