title: Long-term monitoring dataset of fish assemblages impinged at nuclear power plants in northern Taiwan.
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.
authors.affiliation: National Research Institute of Fisheries Science, Fisheries Research Agency, Kanagawa 236-8648, Japan.
authors.forename: Hungyen
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.affiliation: National Museum of Marine Science and Technology, Keelung 20248, Taiwan, R.O.C.
authors.forename: Yun-Chih
authors.initials: YC
authors.lastname: Liao
authors.affiliation: Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei 11529, Taiwan, R.O.C.
authors.forename: Ching-Yi
authors.initials: CY
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.affiliation: Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei 11529, Taiwan, R.O.C.
authors.forename: Jeng-I
authors.initials: JI
authors.lastname: Tsai
authors.affiliation: Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei 11529, Taiwan, R.O.C.
authors.forename: Lee-Sea
authors.initials: LS
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.affiliation: Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei 11529, Taiwan, R.O.C.
authors.forename: Kwang-Tsao
authors.initials: KT
authors.lastname: Shao
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D044822:Biodiversity; D005399:Fishes; D055848:Nuclear Power Plants; D013624:Taiwan; D013997:Time Factors