Eastern Asia (WGSRPD)

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Eastern Asia, as defined in the WGSRPD

Eastern Asia is one of the regions of

Marcus Island (Minami-Tori-shima), have greater floristic affinity with similar Pacific islands and are placed in the botanical continent of the Pacific.[2]

WGSRPD system

The WGSRPD is a

Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) organization.[3] The system provides clear definitions and codes for recording plant distributions at four scales or levels, from "botanical continents" down to parts of large countries.[4] The top two levels are given numerical codes. The botanical continent 3 Asia-Temperate has nine regions, one of which is 38 Eastern Asia.[5]

Organizations and works using the scheme include the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN),[6] the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN), and the World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (WCSP).[7] For example, the entry for Lilium concolor in the WCSP includes the numerical codes "30 31 36 37 38",[8] the initial "3" showing these are all regions of Asia-Temperate, with "38" being Eastern Asia.

Eastern Asia subdivisions

The Eastern Asia region is subdivided into areas and "basic recording units", which are given letter codes:[1]

Divisions of 38 Eastern Asia
Level 3 area Level 4 unit
JAP Japan JAP-HK Hokkaido
JAP-HN Honshu
JAP-KY Kyushu
JAP-SH Shikoku
KZN Kazan-retto KZN-OO Kazan-retto (Volcano Islands)
NNS Nansei-shoto NNS-OO Nansei-shoto (Ryukyu Islands)
OGA Ogasawara-shoto OGA-OO Ogasawara-shoto (Bonin Islands)
KOR Korea KOR-NK North Korea
KOR-SK South Korea
TAI Taiwan TAI-OO Taiwan

Changes

Some small changes were made to the Eastern Asia region between the first and second editions of the WGSRPD. The Volcano Islands (Kazan-retto) and the Bonin Islands (Ogasawara-shoto) were moved from the Pacific botanical continent to Eastern Asia within Asia-Temperate as they have many endemic plants in common with Eastern Asia.[2]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Brummitt (2001), p. 42.
  2. ^ a b Brummitt (2001), p. 5.
  3. ^ Brummitt (2001), p. ix.
  4. ^ Brummitt (2001), pp. xi, 19.
  5. ^ Brummitt (2001), p. 19.
  6. ^ "Who Is Using This Standard". Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG). Archived from the original on 2015-07-13. Retrieved 2015-08-02.
  7. ^ "About the Checklist". World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 2008-01-01.
  8. ^ "Lilium concolor", World Checklist of Selected Plant Families, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, retrieved 2015-08-02

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