We describe the wildlife road kill data set collected by citizen scientists from the Taiwan Road Observation Network (TaiRON). This data set includes 46,416 geospatially referenced occurrence points of wildlife found on road networks in Taiwan starting in 2011 and until Dec. 2017. These road kill occurrence points come from Taiwan and the main islands that belong Taiwan, an 35,000 km2 island off the Eastern coast of China with high biodiversity and endemism. Each observation includes at least one photo, species name, and date and time of collection, Project managers and group experts identify each photograph and label them with vernacular and scientific names. The labelled observations are collected via an on-line platform, and compiled into a continuously growing dataset of structured records. The data set is still growing as the membership of TaiRON is very active and increasing, with over 14,000 current members. TaiRON and its data set will provide important conservation information about the impacts of human activity and pressures associated with roads on wildlife biodiversity in Taiwan and provides an example of framework that can be replicated elsewhere.
GBIF url: https://www.gbif.org/dataset/db09684b-0fd1-431e-b5fa-4c1532fbdb14
Homepage: https://roadkill.tw/en/openapi
Citation: Lin T (2023). The Taiwan Roadkill Observation Network Data Set.. Version 1.8. Taiwan Biodiversity Research Institute. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/cidkqi accessed via GBIF.org on 2024-04-08.