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. 2015 Dec 8:2:150071.
doi: 10.1038/sdata.2015.71.

Long-term monitoring dataset of fish assemblages impinged at nuclear power plants in northern Taiwan

Hungyen Chen  1 , Yun-Chih Liao  2 , Ching-Yi Chen  3 , Jeng-I Tsai  3 , Lee-Sea Chen  3 , Kwang-Tsao Shao  3
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Long-term monitoring dataset of fish assemblages impinged at nuclear power plants in northern Taiwan

Hungyen Chen et al. Sci Data. .

Abstract

The long-term species diversity patterns in marine fish communities are garnering increasing attention from ecologists and conservation biologists. However, current databases on quantitative abundance information lack consistent long-term time series, which are particularly important in exploring the possible underlying mechanism of community changes and evaluating the effectiveness of biodiversity conservation measures. Here we describe an impinged fish assemblage dataset containing 1, 283, 707 individuals from 439 taxa. Once a month over 19 years (1987-1990 and 2000-2014), we systematically collected the fish killed by impingement upon cooling water intake screens at two nuclear power plants on the northern coast of Taiwan. Because impingement surveys have low sampling errors and can be carried out over many years, they serve as an ideal sampling tool for monitoring how fish diversity and community structure vary over an extended period of time.

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Figures

Figure 1
Figure 1. Map of sampling localities: 1st and 2nd Nuclear Power Plants.
Figure 2
Figure 2. Temporal variation of number of species of impinged fish collected at the 1st and 2nd Nuclear Power Plants in Taiwan during the periods 1987–1990 and 2000–2014.
(a) Monthly fluctuation. (b) Yearly fluctuation.
Figure 3
Figure 3. Cumulative curve of species count of impinged fish collected at the 1st and 2nd Nuclear Power Plants in Taiwan during the periods 1987–1990 and 2000–2014 (a total of 206 months).
Figure 4
Figure 4. Monthly fluctuations of number of impinged fish collected at the 1st and 2nd Nuclear Power Plants in Taiwan during the period 2000–2014.
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