Grassland dataset

1. IDENTIFICATION INFORMATION

Name Grassland dataset
Metadata Identifier grassland20230727083109-en

2. CONTACT

2.1 CONTACT on DATASET

Name Katsuhisa Shimoda
Organization National Agriculture and Food Research Organization
Address 768 Senbonmatsu, Nasushiobara, Tochigi, 329-2793, Japan
TEL 0287-37-7225
E-mail shimoda@affrc.go.jp

2.2 CONTACT on PROJECT

3. DOCUMENT AUTHOR

Name Katsuhisa Shimoda

4. DATASET CREATOR

Name Katsuhisa Shimoda

5. DATE OF THIS DOCUMENT

2023-07-27

6. DATE OF DATASET

  • creation : 2016-01-20

7. DATASET OVERVIEW

7.1 Abstract

The research project “Dynamics of the grassland ecosystems in Japan” was begun in 1972 by Ministry of Agriculture, forestry, and Fisheries. The principal purpose of this project was to obtain basic data to enable utilization sustainability and ensure the conservation of grasslands in Japan. The investigation methods for vegetation, plant production were determined in detail at the start of this project.

7.2 Topic Category(ISO19139)

  • environment

7.3 Temporal Extent

Begin Date 1972-04-01
End Date 1981-03-31

7.4 Geographic Bounding Box

North bound latitude 43.3428
West bound longitude 129.7209
Eastbound longitude 144.8952
South bound latitude 32.8799

7.5 Grid

7.6 Geographic Description

7.7 Keywords

7.7.1 Keywords on Dataset

Keyword Type Keyword Keyword thesaurus Name
theme semi-natural grassland, pasture, vegetation, succession No_Dictionary

7.7.2 Keywords on Project

7.8 Online Resource

7.9 Data Environmental Information

7.10 Distribution Information

name version specification

8. DATA PROCESSING

9. DATA REMARKS

10. DATA POLICY

10.1 Data Policy by the Data Provider

10.2 Data Policy by the Project

11. LICENSE

12. DATA SOURCE ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

12.1 Acknowledge the Data Provider

12.2 Acknowledge the Project

13. REFERENCES