A dataset for vascular plant diversity monitoring for the natural World Heritage site on Amami-Oshima Island, Tokunoshima Island, and the northern Okinawa Island

This dataset presents the vascular plant biodiversity sampled from four plots on Amami-Oshima Island, three plots on Tokunoshima Island, and one plot on Okinawa Island within the natural World Heritage site, and an additional three plots in southern Kyushu using the standardized belt-transect survey method during July 2012 to October 2020. The dataset includes 99 families, 215 genera, and 380 species of vascular plants, and provides species occurrence among 10 subplots for all vascular plants, girth at breast height (GBH) and height of all trees and climbers with GBH ≥ 3.2 cm or height ≥ 4 m in each 5 × 100 m plot. This dataset serves as baseline data for subsequent plant diversity monitoring of the natural World Heritage site. This dataset is published as a data paper in Ecological Research (see https://doi.org/10.1111/1440-1703.12340).

本数据集收录了从世界自然遗产地阿玛米岛四个样地、冲绳岛三个样地以及琉球群岛一个样地，以及九州南部额外三个样地中采集的维管植物生物多样性样本，调查时间为2012年7月至2020年10月，采用标准化的带状样线法进行。数据集涵盖了99个科、215个属、380个维管植物物种，并为所有维管植物在10个子样地中的物种出现频率、树干胸高直径（GBH）以及GBH≥3.2厘米或高度≥4米的树木和藤本植物的高度提供了详细数据。该数据集作为自然世界遗产地后续植物多样性监测的基线数据。本数据集已作为数据论文发表在《生态研究》期刊上（详见https://doi.org/10.1111/1440-1703.12340）。