国指定鳥獣保護区における「生息する鳥獣類」の種リスト

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 The purpose of this paper is to publish a dataset of species inventories of “birds and mammals inhabiting” for all national designated wildlife protection areas, which are compiled by the Ministry of the Environment for each area, to be available for widespread conservation research.

 The total number of species listed was 533 bird species and 100 mammal species.

 In order to show examples of how the data can be used, hierarchical cluster analysis was used to group birds and mammals by species composition and to detect indicator species. The species composition of both birds and animals varied depending on the area size of the protected area, and was characterized by landscape elements such as tidal flats, lakes and marshes, and islands, and regions such as Hokkaido, southern Honshu, Ogasawara and Okinawa. The number of indicator species detected was divided into groups with 20-40 species and groups with 0 to several species. In bird species representative species to be indicators for habitat were detected, while in mammal species many indicator species were detected in protected areas in Hokkaido and large protected areas in Honshu.