The demise of caterpillar fungus in the Himalayan region due to climate change and overharvesting: Dataset

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Abstract: Himalayan caterpillar fungus (Ophiocordyceps sinensis) has become one of the world’s most valuable biological commodities due to its use as an ingredient in traditional medicine. Here we provide a dataset of caterpillar fungus locations used in the publication "The demise of caterpillar fungus in the Himalayan region due to climate change and overharvesting." It includes coordinates for 400 caterpillar fungus locations that we compiled from a systematic literature review and supplemented with new GPS records collected in the field. We used these data to map the current suitable habitat for O. sinensis in order to assess how environmental conditions relate to its production, and how these are affected by climate change.

Type of resource	software, multimedia
Date created	January 2016 - December 2017

Subject	local ecological knowledge
Subject	niche commodities
Subject	species distribution modeling
Subject	Ophiocordyceps sinensis
Subject	Tibetan Plateau
Subject	Nepal
Subject	Bhutan
Subject	India
Subject	Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment
Subject	Stanford School of Earth Energy and Environmental Sciences
Genre	Dataset

Related Publication	Hopping, Kelly A., Chignell, Stephen M., and Lambin, Eric F. (2018). The demise of caterpillar fungus in the Himalayan region due to climate change and overharvesting. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115(45):11489-11494. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1811591115
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Preferred Citation: Hopping, Kelly A., Chignell, Stephen M., and Lambin, Eric F. (2018). The demise of caterpillar fungus in the Himalayan region due to climate change and overharvesting: Dataset. Stanford Digital Repository. Available at: https://purl.stanford.edu/ww909xk7776

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