National Meadow and Pasture Inventory (TUVA)

Occurrence
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Description

The Meadow and Pasture Inventory is a Swedish national inventory of biologically valuable meadows and pastures. The inventory collects information about a number of natural and cultural environments containing flora and other organisms that are highly dependent on hay-making or grazing animals. In the inventory only nature values connected to hay-making or grazing are assessed. The information from the inventory is open to all and collected in the Swedish Board of Agriculture database TUVA (www.jordbruksverket.se/tuva). The TUVA database contains information about: 1. Fully inventoried pastures and meadows (classified as mown meadow, open pasture, forest pasture and mountain pasture), 2. Meadows and pastures that are restorable, 3. Non-applicable meadows and pastures. A sub-classification of the types of meadows and pastures treated was also made using the Habitat Directive; Council Directive 92/43/EEC, or they were classified as developmental- or other types of fields. Inventories of indicator species (vascular plants), meadow fungi, trees and shrubs, cultural elements, water bodies and status of present management was also performed. The majority of the meadows and pastures in TUVA were inventoried between the years 2002 and 2004. Inventories have since then and up until 2012 been performed on a smaller scale. From 2016 and onwards, the national inventory has been reopened with a focus on performing repeated monitoring of already inventoried meadows and pastures. The information from the Meadow and Pasture Inventory is used for monitoring the environmental quality objective set up by the Swedish government; ‘a rich farming landscape’. It is also used for evaluating rural programs and for reporting to the EU Habitat Directive. The inventory is also used as a basis for national, regional and local strategies and programs for environmental management, spatial planning and case management. Data from the inventory have also been used for research.

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The publisher and rights holder of this work is GBIF-Sweden. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 59bc8df0-0c71-11dd-84d4-b8a03c50a862.  GBIF-Sweden publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF Sweden.

Keywords

Occurrence; Observation; Occurrence

Contacts

Anna Nordberg
  • Metadata Provider
  • Originator
Curator
Swedish Board of Agriculture
Jönköping
SE
Anna Blomquist
  • Point Of Contact
Head of TUVA
Swedish Board of Agriculture
Jönköping
SE
Veronika Johansson
Data manager
The Swedish Museum of Natural History
Stockholm
SE

Geographic Coverage

Sweden

Bounding Coordinates South West [54.368, 8.438], North East [70.259, 26.719]

Taxonomic Coverage

Mainly vascular plants and fungi, but also bryophytes, lichens and some fauna.

Kingdom Plantae, Fungi
Phylum Bryophyta

Additional Metadata

Alternative Identifiers 59bc8df0-0c71-11dd-84d4-b8a03c50a862
https://www.gbif.se/ipt/resource?r=sjv-tuva