biodiversity
Invasive Alien Species in Sweden (Regulation (EU) 1143/2014)
This checklist includes species from the Invasive Alien Species of Union concern (Union List), which is the core of the Invasive Alien Species Regulation (Regulation (EU) 1143/2014). This checklist consists of all species in Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2016/1141, 2017/1263 and 2019/1262, with additional information about occurrence status and establishment means in Sweden. Since the registration date on GBIF in June 2020, only the metadata but not the checklist itself has been updated. The last update of the Union List, Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/1203, is not included in this checklist. A consolidated version of the Union list can be found here: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:02016R1141-20220802&from=EN
Darwin Core Archive of Invasive Alien Species in Sweden (Regulation (EU) 1143/2014)
Invertebrates of the Gothenburg Natural History Museum (GNM)
This database contains specimens of invertebrates from the Gothenburg natural history museum, collected from the early 1800´s to the present. New specimens are added continuously. The main bulk of the collection consists of ethanol-preserved specimens of marine benthic invertebrates (notably L.A. Jägerskiölds marine survey 1921-1938 and the Swedish Taxonomy Initiative´s marine survey 2004-2009), parasitic worms from the Swedish west coast (notably collections from Peter Olsson and Orvar Nybelin) and dry mollusc shells. However, there are both wet and dry preserved specimens of a wide array of taxa from the entire world.
Darwin Core Archive of Invertebrates of the Gothenburg Natural History Museum (GNM)
Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Braconidae: Cheloninae: Adelius
Occurrences in this dataset on Swedish Insects have been identified from specimens collected from for the Swedish Malaise Project (SMTP), an inventory funded by the Swedish Species Information Centre (ArtDatabanken). These records comprise the foundation for recent estimates on the size and composition of the Swedish insect fauna, published herein as sample-based datasets.
Darwin Core Archive of Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Braconidae: Cheloninae: Adelius
Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Acartophthalmidae
Darwin Core Archive of Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Acartophthalmidae
SHARK - National marine environmental monitoring of Jellyfish in Sweden since 2007
The national monitoring program is financed by the Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management. Monitoring is performed by Gothenburg University. Data are stored in the Swedish Ocean Archive (SHARK) by the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI). Information about the program and the methods are available in Swedish at the website of Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management, https://www.havochvatten.se/vagledning-foreskrifter-och-lagar/vagledningar/ovriga-vagledningar/overvakningsmanualer-for-miljoovervakning/overvakningsmanualer/geleplankton.html
Darwin Core Archive of SHARK - National marine environmental monitoring of Jellyfish in Sweden since 2007
Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Asilidae
Darwin Core Archive of Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Asilidae
Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Anthomyzidae
Darwin Core Archive of Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Anthomyzidae
Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Anomaloninae
Darwin Core Archive of Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Anomaloninae
Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Adelognathinae
Darwin Core Archive of Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Adelognathinae
Ájtte Museum is one of the museums in Sweden that actively works with the collection and preservation of natural history material. The purpose of the collection is to build a special collection with the overall heading: "nature of the mountains". The collected material includes birds, mammals, fish, fungi, minerals, rocks and botanicals. The material constituting the Natural history collections are donated by private persons, the police (“state wildlife”) and other museums and institutions. In addition, the museum also conducts its own active collection activities. Currently, the museum holds over 19,000 natural history objects in its database /collection. The collections are searchable in the museum common database: http://collections.ajtte.com/ and thus accessible to researchers, students and other interested but also useful for educational purposes. The collections are stored in climate-controlled archives so that they can be preserved in a safe and secure way for the future. Our goal is that these unique collections will come to attention of the special interest researcher and be a resource to taxonomic and morphological studies on the species of Northern Sweden. The insect collections are the largest part of the natural history collections of Ájtte museum, with more than 14,500 specimens, mainly including beetles and butterflies with a northern provenance. The beetles (Coleoptera) of this collection were donated by Sven-Erik Nilsson’s estate (2003). The butterflies (Lepidoptera) are from the Jokkmokk area and consists of approximately 1 200 specimens belonging to 400 different species, and was donated by Roger Engelmark (Professor Emeritus, University of Umeå). The museum's collection of reindeers (Rangifer tarandus) is very extensive, perhaps the world's largest. The collection consists of osteological material with over 1 000 skulls, with antlers and jaws from both adult and young animals of both sexes. This well-documented material of reindeer has been collected from the whole Swedish range of distribution. The collection was previous held by the Swedish Museum of Natural History, but in 2010 it was taken over by Ájtte museum. The material was collected by the researcher Folke Skuncke during the middle of the 19th century.
Database of the botany collection of the Museum of Evolution in Uppsala.
Lund University Biological Museum - Botanical collection (LD)
The scientific collections of Lund Universty Botanical Museum (Herbarium LD) comprise 2.5 million specimens divided into algae & cyanobacteria (102 000), bryophytes (149 000), fungi (63 000), lichens (170 000) and vascular plants (2 000 000). The collections go back to the 18th century and represent more than 250 years of scientific research. Coverage is worldwide with particularly important collections from Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Greece, Turkey, North Africa, South Africa, Zimbabwe and Australia.
Darwin Core Archive of Lund University Biological Museum - Botanical collection (LD)
SHARK - National marine environmental monitoring of Epibenthos in Sweden since 1992
The monitoring program was initiated by the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency and later the Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management took over the responsibility and financing of the program. The monitoring is performed by Stockholm University, University of Gothenburg and Linnaeus University. The data is stored in the database SHARK, hosted and maintained by the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute. The epibenthos monitoring program studies hard and soft bottoms from the surface down to 10-20 meters. Data is collected in transects or squares with help of divers. Species abundances are determined directly by the divers or photographs are taken and analyzed later. Field notes are in Swedish. Information about the program and the methods are available in Swedish at the website of Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management, https://www.havochvatten.se/overvakning-och-uppfoljning/miljoovervakning/organisation-och-programomraden/miljoovervakningens-programomrade-kust-och-hav/delprogram-vegetationskladda-bottnar.html, https://www.havochvatten.se/vagledning-foreskrifter-och-lagar/vagledningar/ovriga-vagledningar/undersokningstyper-for-miljoovervakning/undersokningstyper/vegetationskladda-bottnar-ostkust.html, https://www.havochvatten.se/vagledning-foreskrifter-och-lagar/vagledningar/ovriga-vagledningar/undersokningstyper-for-miljoovervakning/undersokningstyper/vegetationskladda-bottnar-vastkust.html
Darwin Core Archive of SHARK - National marine environmental monitoring of Epibenthos in Sweden since 1992
CO1 Amplicon Sequence Variants of bulk arthropod samples (mild lysis) collected with Malaise traps from the Insect Biome Atlas project in Sweden
Amplicon Sequence Variants of 418bp of CO1 from mild lysed arthropod community samples collected with Malaise traps from the Insect Biome Atlas project in Sweden, as described in the IBA data paper . This dataset was published via the SBDI ASV portal , and has been updated from 'Metadata only' to 'Occurrence' type. Occurrence data were compiled from the following IBA Figshare items: Processed ASV data from the Insect Biome Atlas Project v3: cleaned_noise_filtered_cluster_taxonomy_SE.tsv.gz spikeins_tax_SE.tsv.gz Amplicon sequence variants from the Insect Biome Atlas project v6: co1_asv_counts_se.tsv.gz co1_asv_seqs_se.fasta.gz The following samples were excluded from this resource due to sequencing failure: P23412_1633, P23412_1638, P23412_1641, P23412_1647; or lack of non-zero counts for annotated ASVs: P20863_1580, P23412_1318, P25061_1224, P25061_1440, P25061_1463, P25061_1711, P25061_1734, P25259_1134, P25259_1250.
Darwin Core Archive of CO1 Amplicon Sequence Variants of bulk arthropod samples (mild lysis) collected with Malaise traps from the Insect Biome Atlas project in Sweden
This database contains information on the specimens that have been registered so far in the mammal collection of the Swedish Museum of Natural History. This dataset is based on extensive collections of mammals housed at the Swedish Museum of Natural History, having approximately 120,000 objects, mainly in the form of skeletons and skins, but also alcohol-preserved animals and tissue samples. Some of the specimens are mounted and displayed in museum exhibitions, the collection is, however, primarily used in research and for educational purposes. The collections include 18th century, even late 17th century, specimens covering a little more than 40% of the world's known mammals. The data set, and the collections it reflects, has a focus on Swedish and European species as well as substantial representation of South American, African, and Southeast Asian faunas. The mammals that are part of the state-owned wildlife ("statens vilt") are particularly well represented.
16S occurrence data from the Linnaeus Marine Observatory (LMO) 2011-2023. This dataset was published via the SBDI ASV portal .
Darwin Core Archive of LMO 16S rRNA metabarcoding dataset
Swedish Bird Survey: Winter point count routes (Vinterpunktrutterna)
The summer and winter point count routes (“punktrutterna”) are two of several schemes within the Swedish Bird Survey (see below), run by the Department of Biology at Lund University. The point count routes were initiated in 1975 as a standardized method for detecting and reporting changes in the abundance of birds and their distributions in Sweden over time. The point count routes can be surveyed in summer and/or winter.The surveys are initiated and carried out by volunteer ornithologists who use standardized methods to count birds along routes of their own choice. Nearly 3200 point count routes have been surveyed at least once up to and including the winter 2023/2024, and almost 2500 of these have been surveyed during the winter. The dataset presented here is for the winter point count routes.In this dataset, some information is placed in the table ExtendedMeasurementOrFacts (eMoF), which is part of the Source Archive available to download directly from the dataset’s page here on gbif.org. The Source Archive contains the data exactly as uploaded to gbif (verbatim). Should you choose to download the dataset as GBIF Annotated Archive instead, the data has been interpreted and quality controlled by gbif, but, the data in the eMoF will not be included as the eMoF extension is not yet supported by gbif.
Darwin Core Archive of Swedish Bird Survey: Winter point count routes (Vinterpunktrutterna)
SHARK - National environmental monitoring of Harbour seal in Sweden since 1988
The national monitoring program was initiated by the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency and is now financed by the Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management. The monitoring is performed by the Swedish Museum of Natural History. Data is stored in the database SHARK, hosted and maintained by the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute. Monitoring of seals is performed by counting seals from land, ship or airplane. More information is available in Swedish at https://www.havochvatten.se/hav/samordning--fakta/miljoovervakning/miljoovervakningens-programomrade-kust-och-hav/delprogram-sal-och-havsorn.html
Darwin Core Archive of SHARK - National environmental monitoring of Harbour seal in Sweden since 1988
18S data from: Diversity of Pico- to Mesoplankton along the 2000 km Salinity Gradient of the Baltic Sea (Hu et al. 2016)
18S rRNA gene metabarcoding data of surface water microbial communities from 21 off-shore stations following a transect from Kattegat to the Gulf of Bothnia in the Baltic Sea. The data was published in: Yue O O Hu, Bengt Karlson, Sophie Charvet, Anders F Andersson. Diversity of Pico- to Mesoplankton along the 2000 km Salinity Gradient of the Baltic Sea. Front Microbiol. 2016 May 12;7:679. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2016.00679. This dataset was published via the SBDI ASV portal.
Darwin Core Archive of 18S data from: Diversity of Pico- to Mesoplankton along the 2000 km Salinity Gradient of the Baltic Sea (Hu et al. 2016)
Kullenberg Archives - Historical Insect Inventories
These occurrence records have been extracted and mobilized from archival documents held by the Museum of Evolution at Uppsala University. The primary source material from which the dataset stems consist of standardized, typed insect inventories carried out by students and teachers at Uppsala University as part of entomology courses held over a period of nearly 50 years, from 1948 to 1996. The occurrence records are sorted by sampling events, each containing precise information on time and place of sampling. The current dataset covers insect inventories carried out at two of the thirty sampling locations (Botaniska Trädgården and Hässelby). As digitization and data extraction work progresses, further locations and sampling events will be added to the dataset.
Darwin Core Archive of Kullenberg Archives - Historical Insect Inventories
Database of the zoology collection of the Museum of Evolution in Uppsala.
Darwin Core Archive of Zoology (Museum of Evolution - Uppsala)
These data represent the current knowledge on the distribution (establishment) status of arthropod vectors at ‘regional’ administrative unit level NUTS3 or equivalent and NUTS2 in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, The Netherlands, England (UK), Scotland (UK) and Wales (UK), and GAUL outside EU/EEA and Western Balkans and Türkiye, as established by experts based on reports. The eventDate indicates when this status was attributed, and is valid on the date of publishing (October 2025). The NUTS system used is that of 2021 version.
Darwin Core Archive of VectorDistributionStatus_2025
Swedish Bird Survey: Swedish waterbird census (January)
The Swedish waterbird census in January (Svensk sjöfågelinventering (januari)) was started in 1967 as part of the international midwinter census of waterbirds coordinated by Wetlands International. The winter count of waterbirds is therefore one of the longest running surveys of Swedish birds. It is a valuable tool for monitoring the changes in the wintering populations of waterbirds in Sweden. It also provides good information of the wintering distribution of most of the species.The Swedish waterbird census (January) is one of several schemes within the Swedish Bird Survey, run by the Department of Biology at Lund University. The surveys are with a few exceptions carried out by volunteer ornithologists. The survey is mainly financed by the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency, but smaller contributions come from the county administrative boards and BirdLife Sverige. The results from the survey are reported to Wetlands International.In this dataset, some information is placed in the table ExtendedMeasurementOrFacts (eMoF), which is part of the Source Archive available to download directly from the dataset’s page on gbif.org. The Source Archive contains the data exactly as uploaded to gbif (verbatim). Should you choose to download the dataset as GBIF Annotated Archive instead, the data has been interpreted and quality controlled by gbif, but, the data in the eMoF will not be included, as the eMoF extension is not yet supported by gbif.
Darwin Core Archive of Swedish Bird Survey: Swedish waterbird census (January)
SHARK - National marine environmental monitoring of zooplankton in Sweden since 1979
The national monitoring program was initiated by the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency and is now financed by the Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management. Monitoring is performed by Stockholm University, Umeå University, Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute and Gothenburg University. Data are stored in the Swedish Ocean Archive (SHARK) by the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI). Data should be sampled and analyzed according to the HELCOM COMBINE Manual - Part C Annex C7 Mesozooplankton (https://helcom.fi/media/publications/Guidelines-for-monitoring-of-mesozooplankton.pdf). However, deviations from the manual might occur. Information about the program and the methods are available in Swedish at the website of Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management, https://www.havochvatten.se/vagledning-foreskrifter-och-lagar/vagledningar/ovriga-vagledningar/undersokningstyper-for-miljoovervakning/undersokningstyper/djurplankton-trend--och-omradesovervakning.html
Darwin Core Archive of SHARK - National marine environmental monitoring of zooplankton in Sweden since 1979
Fungal ITS2 data from Pyroleae and Monotropa hypopitys germination study
This dataset contains ITS metabarcoding data describing fungal communities associated with germinating seeds and early developmental stages of Pyroleae species and Monotropa hypopitys in Sweden. The data were generated using high-throughput sequencing of the ITS2 region to characterize ectomycorrhizal fungal diversity and its relationship to plant development and ecological conditions.DescriptionThe dataset originates from a field-based seed sowing experiment designed to investigate fungal associations during early ontogeny of mycoheterotrophic and partially mycoheterotrophic plants (Johansson et al. 2017). Seed bags were deployed across multiple forest sites and retrieved over multiple years to assess germination, seedling development, and associated fungal communities. DNA was extracted from germinated seedlings and analyzed using ITS metabarcoding of the ITS2 region. The resulting dataset includes operational taxonomic units (OTUs), taxonomic assignments, and sequence read abundances, providing a detailed characterization of fungal diversity associated with early plant life stages.PurposeThe purpose of this dataset is to document the diversity and composition of fungal communities associated with early developmental stages of selected plant species and to support research on plant-fungal interactions, mycoheterotrophy, and forest ecosystem processes, building on the findings presented in Johansson et al. 2017, Mol Ecol, 26: 2591-2604. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.14050 This dataset was published via the SBDI ASV portal .
Darwin Core Archive of Fungal ITS2 data from Pyroleae and Monotropa hypopitys germination study
This database contains information on the so far registered bryophyte specimens in the herbarium of the Swedish Museum of Natural History.
List of Restricted Access Species In Sweden
The list of restricted access species is the current list of species regarded as sensitive to and requiring protection from human interference for a variety of reasons. Determination of sensitivity and listing of species is intended to reduce the risk of threats associated with the publication of the locations of the most sensitive and vulnerable species at national level. The sensitivity of a species is determined based on current threats relating to risk and impact of harm. For each species a decision is made on the category of sensitivity, and the level of generalization for the release of the data. Access to records of the listed species is restricted i.e. details like exact location, date, name of observer etc. are hidden from public view. The exact geographical coordinates of the recorded location are obfuscated at a scale corresponding to the sensitivity category (5 km, 25 km or 50 km). The only open data is information on the obfuscated positions i.e. grid cells of a gridded map with grid size according to sensitivity category. Determination of species’ sensitivity and sensitivity category is updated approximately every 5 years. Last revision: year 2023. https://www.slu.se/artdatabanken/rapportering-och-fynd/fynduppgifter-och-skyddsklassade-arter/skyddsklassade-arter/
Darwin Core Archive of List of Restricted Access Species In Sweden
VectorNet started in May 2014, and is now in its third iteration (2024–2028). VectorNet supports the collection of data on vectors and pathogens in vectors related to both animal and human health. ECDC and EFSA are developing a network of medical and veterinary experts and organisations to maintain a common database on the presence and distribution of vectors and pathogens in vectors across Europe and the Mediterranean basin. The network of medical entomologists and public health professionals, already established during the preceding VBORNET project, is being extended to include veterinary entomologists and veterinarians working in the field of vector-borne diseases in Europe and the countries surrounding the Mediterranean Basin. The project also provides ad-hoc scientific advice to support ECDC and EFSA with technical questions on vector surveillance and vector-borne diseases in humans and animals. Through the EFSA/ECDC collaboration on the VectorNet project, communication and collaboration between experts and organisations from the medical and veterinary domains will be improved. The project will contribute to improving preparedness and response for vector-borne diseases in the European Union.
Darwin Core Archive of VectorNet observations
The Botanical Garden, Uppsala University
The Botanical Garden of Uppsala University consists of a Baroque garden, the oldest orangery in Sweden still and continuously used for its original purpose, a tropical greenhose, an arboretum, a kitchen garden, various systematically or geographically arranged plantations of trees, shrubs, perennials, and annuals - together these collections enable the garden to represent plants from most regions of the world, diverse habitats as well as great biological diversity. Among the garden's "celebrities" are Linnaeus's own bay laurel trees and unique collections of African taxa (african violets, Cyclamen somalense, Aloe nugalense).
Darwin Core Archive of The Botanical Garden, Uppsala University
This data set contains observations of dead or alive harbor porpoises made by the public, mostly around the Swedish coast. A few observations are from Norwegian, Danish, Finish and German waters. Each observation of harbor porpoise is verified at the Swedish Museum of Natural History before it is approved and published on the web. The verification consists of controlling the accuracy of number of animals sighted, if the coordinates are correct and if pictures are attached that they really show a porpoise and not another species. If any of these three seem unlikely, the reporter is contacted and asked more detailed questions. The report is approved or denied depending on the answers given. Pictures and movies that can’t be uploaded to the database due to size problems are saved at the museum server and marked with the identification number given by the database. By the end of the year the data is submitted to HELCOM who then summarize all the member state’s data from the Baltic proper to the Kattegat basin. The porpoise is one of the smallest tooth whales in the world and the only whale species that breeds in Swedish waters. They are to be found in temperate water in the northern hemisphere where they live in small groups of 1-3 individuals. The females give birth to a calf in the summer months which then suckles for about 10 months before it is left on its own and she has a new calf. The porpoises around Sweden are divided in to three groups that don’t mix very often. The North Sea population is found on the west coast in Skagerrak down to the Falkenberg area. The Belt Sea population is to be found a bit north of Falkenberg down to Blekinge archipelago in the Baltic. The Baltic proper population is the smallest population and consists only of a few hundred animals and is considered as an endangered sub species. They are most commonly found from the Blekinge archipelago up to Åland Sea with a hot spot area south of Gotland at Hoburg’s bank and the Mid-Sea bank. The Porpoise Observation Database was started in 2005 at the request of the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency to get a better understanding of where to find porpoises with the idea to use the public to expand the “survey area”. The first year 26 sightings were reported, where 4 was from the Baltic Sea. The museum is particularly interested in sightings from the Baltic Sea due to the low numbers of animals and lack of data and knowledge about this group. In the beginning only live sightings were reported but later also found dead animals were added. Some of the animals that are reported dead are collected. Depending on where it is found and its state of decay, the animal can be subsampled in the field. A piece of blubber and some teeth are then send in by mail and stored in the Environmental Specimen Bank at the Swedish Museum of Natural History in Stockholm. If the whole animal is collected an autopsy is performed at the National Veterinary Institute in Uppsala to try and determine cause of death. Organs, teeth and parasites are sampled and saved at the Environmental Specimen Bank as well. Information about the animal i.e. location, founding date, sex, age, length, weight, blubber thickness as well as type of organ and the amount that is sampled is then added to the Specimen Bank database. If there is an interest in getting samples or data from the Specimen Bank, one have to send in an application to the Department of Environmental research and monitoring and state the purpose of the study and the amount of samples needed.
Darwin Core Archive of Porpoise Observation Database (NRM)
Swedish Bird Survey: Fixed routes (Standardrutterna)
The fixed routes (standardrutterna) are one of several schemes within the Swedish Bird Survey (see below), run by the Department of Biology at Lund University, on behalf of the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency. The fixed routes were initiated in 1996 as a standardized method for detecting and reporting changes in the abundance of birds (since 1996) and mammals (since 2011), and their distributions in Sweden over time. This is possible due to the routes being distributed across Sweden in such a way that all main habitats are surveyed in a representative manner, and by counting birds and mammals using the same methods, in the same locations, year after year. The surveys are carried out by volunteer ornithologists. In this dataset, some information is placed in the table ExtendedMeasurementOrFacts (eMoF), which is part of the Source Archive available to download directly from the dataset’s page here on gbif.org. The Source Archive contains the data exactly as uploaded to gbif (verbatim). Should you choose to download the dataset as GBIF Annotated Archive instead, the data has been interpreted and quality controlled by gbif, but, the data in the eMoF will not be included as the eMoF extension is not yet supported by gbif.
Darwin Core Archive of Swedish Bird Survey: Fixed routes (Standardrutterna)
Axel W. Erikssons African Bird Collection at Vänersborg Museum
Birds in Axel W. Eriksson collection was collected in South-Western Africa during 1867-1887. The birds are mainly collected by Axel W. Eriksson himself, with the exception of a few specimens collected by Charles John Andersson. The geographical range of the collection includes present-day Namibia, Angola, South Africa and Botswana. Eriksson's operations took place at the Omaruru trading station in central Namibia, which he established in 1869. From Omaruru, a large number of trade expeditions took place in the 1870s and 80s, a trade that mainly comprised of weapons, ivory, ostrich feathers and cattle. Most of the zoological collections were carried out during these trade expeditions. The collected material was stored in Omaruru in special magazines designed to withstand damage from e.g. insects before being transferred to Vänersborg's museum. Although birds dominate Eriksson's zoological collections, they also include bird eggs, mammals and insects. The collection presented in this dataset contains around 1000 birds. During the time of collection, Axel W Eriksson labeled each bird with its Latin name, the color of the bird's eyes, sex, location and date of collection. The extensive bird collection, of great importance for the founding and establishment of Vänersborg museum, was donated to the city of Vänersborg in 1883 by Axel Eriksson. It was mounted by the renowned taxidermist Gustav Kolthoff (1845-1913). Zoological collections from Eriksson have also been donated to the South African Museum in Cape Town, the British Museum of Natural History in London, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Gothenburg Museum of Natural History and the Universities of Lund and Uppsala.
Darwin Core Archive of Axel W. Erikssons African Bird Collection at Vänersborg Museum
SHARK - National marine environmental monitoring of Ringed seal in Sweden since 1995
Data from the Swedish environmental monitoring program for Ringed seal. The monitoring program was initiated in 1995 by the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency and later the Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management took over the responsibility and financing of the program. The monitoring is performed by the Swedish Museum of Natural History. Data is stored in the database SHARK, hosted and maintained by the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute. Monitoring of Ringed seal is performed by counting seals in transects from airplane. Information about the program and the methods are available in Swedish at the website of Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management, https://www.havochvatten.se/hav/samordning--fakta/miljoovervakning/miljoovervakningens-programomrade-kust-och-hav/delprogram-sal-och-havsorn.html,https://www.havochvatten.se/vagledning-foreskrifter-och-lagar/vagledningar/ovriga-vagledningar/undersokningstyper-for-miljoovervakning/undersokningstyper/bestand-av-knubbsal-och-vikaresal.html
Darwin Core Archive of SHARK - National marine environmental monitoring of Ringed seal in Sweden since 1995
Invertebrates (Type Specimens) of the Swedish Museum of Natural History
The invertebrate type collection at the Swedish Museum of Natural History houses over 8 000 lots of which about 6 600 have been verified (2015). Mollusca constitute about 20% of the type collection. Other well represented groups are Polychaeta, Oligochaeta, Anthozoa, Amphipoda and Echinodermata. The collection houses a large proportion of the type specimens by Ch. Erséus, A. J. Malmgren, A. Warén, O. Carlgren, S. Lovén, S. Boström, U. Jondelius, S. Stöhr, A. V. Ljungman, H. Théel, and S. Bock. More information can be found at http://www.nrm.se/english/researchandcollections/zoology/collections/invertebrates.305_en.html
Darwin Core Archive of Invertebrates (Type Specimens) of the Swedish Museum of Natural History
This database contains information from Gothenburg herbarium, Herbarium GB. It is a university-wide research infrastructure at the University of Gothenburg in the Department of Biology and Environmental Science. The collections include about 1 million dried specimens from all corners of the world. The vascular plant collection is dominant and comprises about 750,000 specimens, while the other 250,000 specimens are mosses, algae, fungi, lichens and slime fungi. The vascular plants contain a rich Nordic material, but also large collections from the Middle East, the Mediterranean and tropical South America. The latter collection reflects the department's more than 50 years of research activities in the region, especially within the Flora of Ecuador project, and which has resulted in the following families being particularly richly represented: Asteraceae, Cyclanthaceae, Heliconiaceae, Marantaceae, Rubiaceae and Scrophulariaceae. Among the non-vascular plant collections, the mushroom collection is the largest and comprises about 100,000 specimens. This mainly consists of base fungi from Northern Europe, a large part of which are wood-degrading crust and bracket fungi. The herbarium also has collections of Psathyrellaceae, Hygrophoraceae, Lycoperdaceae, Inocybeaceae, Russulales and Boletales. Assignments of coordinates to many localities are primarily generated through Sweden's Virtual Herbarium workflow (http://herbarium.emg.umu.se/), which includes transformations from Swedish coordinate systems as well as coordinates for centroids representing geographic or political units. The GBIF dataset is harvested from Sweden's Virtual Herbarium after these georeferencing protocols have been applied, indicated for each record in dwc:georeferenceRemarks where the relevant protocol has been documented.
Darwin Core Archive of Herbarium GB, University of Gothenburg
Herbarium UME is a public research herbarium encompassing approximately 300 000 specimens of vascular plants, mosses, algae, fungi and lichens from all parts of the world, but mainly from northern Sweden. Herbarium UME is run by the Department of Ecology and Environmental Sciences (EMG) at the University of Umeå, Sweden, and is a member of NAMSA (Co-operation Forum for Swedish Natural History Museums). The herbarium was founded in 1968 at the former Department for Ecological Botany. Originally, most material came from donations and exchange. Since then much material has been added from researchers collections, schools, private collections, inventories, local flora projects etc. The collections are still growing, and we are happy to recieve material from any part of Northern Fennoscandia. The aim of Herbarium UME is to preserve plant collections from northern Sweden, to give active support to the botanical exploration of the region and to encourage a proper documentation of the flora in connection with inventories, flora projects and research work. The dataset currently holds about 50000 bryophytes, 22000 lichens, 15000 fungi, 10000 vascular plants, and some algae. About a third of the collection at the herbarium is currently registered in the database.
Darwin Core Archive of Herbarium of Umeå University (UME)
Risk assessment of alien taxa in Sweden 2024
List of risk assessed taxa known to have been introduced to Sweden, or taxa that could be introduced, and for which the risk for invasiveness was assessed as ‘Very high risk’, ‘High risk’ or ‘Potentially high risk’ according to the analyses made 2023-2024 through the risk assessment method GEIAA (Generic Ecological Impact Assessment of Alien species), developed by the Norwegian Biodiversity Information Centre. The results presented are estimates of ecological impact and invasion potential, as well as risk class and outcome criteria. This list replaces the previous results published in the Risk assessment of alien taxa in Sweden 2018 (https://doi.org/10.15468/yrayvw). SLU Artdatabanken (Swedish Species Information Centre) has led the work on risk assessment and producing a new risk list on behalf of the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency and the Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management. A total of 5589 species were assessed, of these, 1968 proceeded to an in-depth assessment, and of these, 1622 have been risk-classified.
Darwin Core Archive of Risk assessment of alien taxa in Sweden 2024
This dataset consists of data on living organism from the Bergius Botanical Garden, Stockholm. The living collections of the Bergius Botanical Garden - that is, the plants in the garden and in the conservatories, consist of thousands of publicly displayed species. The major sections are the herb garden, the botanic park with its various flower beds, the plantations of fruits and berries, the Edvard Anderson Conservatory with plants from the Mediterranean climate and the tropics, and the Victoria House with tropical and aquatic plants.
Palaeoentomological data in SEAD – The Strategic Environmental Archaeology Database
This dataset includes the Quaternary fossil record of arthropods (mainly insects and especially beetles) from the Strategic Environmental Archaeology Database (SEAD; www.sead.se). Data are from BugsCEP (www.bugscep.com), a constituent database of SEAD, and have been gathered from published studies in both scientific journals and consultancy reports. References to the source publications are available in the dataset. The database is global but includes data mostly from northwestern Europe. Sites are classified as either archaeological sites or stratigraphic sequences, with each site containing data from one or more sediment samples. Archaeological sites are locations on or near archaeological excavations. Stratigraphic sequences are mainly from peatbogs or lake sediments, but include mixed sediments which may have human impact. Sample dates are expressed as a range of years BP and derived through a wide variety of dating methods ranging in precision and accuracy from calendar dates and modern radiocarbon dating to stratigraphic association of undated samples with dated layers. Many dates are also interpolated between radiometric dates using age-depth models. Datings ranges from ca 500000 yrs BP until present.
Darwin Core Archive of Palaeoentomological data in SEAD – The Strategic Environmental Archaeology Database
SHARK - National marine environmental monitoring of Seal pathology in Sweden
The national monitoring program was initiated by the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency and is now financed by the Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management. Monitoring is performed by the Swedish Museum of Natural History. Data is stored in the Swedish archive for oceanographic data (SHARK) database, curated by SMHI. Information about the program and the methods are available in Swedish at the website of the Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management https://www.havochvatten.se/vagledning-foreskrifter-och-lagar/vagledningar/ovriga-vagledningar/overvakningsmanualer-for-miljoovervakning/overvakningsmanualer/patologi-hos-grasal-vikaresal-och-knubbsal.html
Darwin Core Archive of SHARK - National marine environmental monitoring of Seal pathology in Sweden
Spatiotemporal Baltic Sea area 16S metabarcoding from three projects performed in 2015-2017 (+storage test 2019)
The 16S (V3–V4) metabarcoding results presented here are described in detail in our manuscript and originate from the following sampling efforts: 1. Bi-weekly sampling along the Swedish marine monitoring program across twelve locations in Baltic Proper, Kattegat, and Skagerrak. For all the locations, sampling was performed between February 2016 and March 2017. Additionally, one station (Släggö, Skagerrak) was sampled from August 2015.2. Weekly sampling at multiple depths (5, 10, and 15 meters in most cases) at Tångesund, Sweden (Skagerrak), performed in 2016 between August 22nd and October 10th.3. Three longitudinal transects in Skagerrak, performed in 2016 on August 18th, 4. Replicate samples collected at Släggö marine station (Skagerrak) on the same date (August 20th 2019) and stored as filters before DNA extraction for 1 week, 1 month, 3 months, or 6 months, in either -20⁰C or -80⁰C.The extracted DNA was stored at -20⁰C until mid-2023 when the amplicon sequencing was performed. All the contextual data has been obtained from the SharkWeb portal maintained by the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute. This dataset was published via the SBDI ASV portal , and has been updated from 'Metadata only' to 'Occurrence' type.
Darwin Core Archive of Spatiotemporal Baltic Sea area 16S metabarcoding from three projects performed in 2015-2017 (+storage test 2019)
Coastal birds in the Gulf of Bothnia (Kustfåglar i Bottniska Viken)
Coastal birds in the Gulf of Bothnia (Kustfåglar i Bottniska Viken) is a joint subprogramme (gemensamt delprogram) within the regional environmental monitoring in Sweden. The programme is run by the four County Administrative Boards (Länsstyrelsen) of Norrbotten, Västerbotten, Västernorrland and Gävleborg. The programme was developed in 2009-2010, and its purpose is to register the presence and population sizes of breeding bird species characteristic of coastal and archipelagic areas in the Gulf of Bothnia, thus enabling changes of these to be monitored. The work is carried out in collaboration with, and is supported by, the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency. The surveys are carried out by employees at the County Administrative Boards as well as hired consultants and experienced ornithologists. In this dataset, some information is placed in the table ExtendedMeasurementOrFacts (eMoF), which is part of the Source Archive available to download directly from the dataset’s page here on gbif.org. The Source Archive contains the data exactly as uploaded to gbif (verbatim). Should you choose to download the dataset as GBIF Annotated Archive instead, the data has been interpreted and quality controlled by gbif, but, the data in the eMoF will not be included as the eMoF extension is not yet supported by gbif.
Darwin Core Archive of Coastal birds in the Gulf of Bothnia (Kustfåglar i Bottniska Viken)
SLU Aqua Institute of Coastal Research Database for Coastal Fish - KUL
The Department of Aquatic Resources (SLU Aqua) at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences is responsible of collecting and checking test-fishing data generated in national and regional environmental programs on behalf of the Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management. The test fishing is performed with standardized methods. SLU Aqua also collect test-fishing data from several other types of investigations (e g recipient monitoring). The purpose is to facilitate obtaining data of high quality for research, national investigations and reports. The database also serves as a reference for local and regional investigations. Data is available for the public on http://www.slu.se/kul.
Darwin Core Archive of SLU Aqua Institute of Coastal Research Database for Coastal Fish - KUL
SURVector: One Health surveillance and Vector monitoring for cross-border pathogensTicks and mosquitoes can transmit infectious diseases as vectors. In the SURVector project, we are setting up a nationwide mosquito and tick monitoring system. The aim of the project is to establish a one-health surveillance system for emerging pathogens, in which mosquitoes and ticks are collected and analysed for relevant pathogens. In this dataset we present the data on the mosquito monitoring part of this project from 2024.
Darwin Core Archive of OH_SURVector_Hungary_Mosquitoes
Ancient host-associated microbes obtained from mammoth remains
This dataset comprises metagenomic microbial DNA data derived from mammoth (Elephantidae: Mammuthus) remains spanning over one million years. It includes newly sequenced and unpublished samples, contaminant filtering, damage‐pattern analyses, and reconstructed partial genomes of host-associated microbial clades (e.g., Actinobacillus, Pasteurella, Streptococcus, Erysipelothrix). The data support paleo-microbiological analyses of ancient animal-microbe interactions.
ancient DNA; aDNA; mammoth; metagenomics; microbial ecology; host-associated microbes; palaeogenetics
Darwin Core Archive of Ancient host-associated microbes obtained from mammoth remains
Lund University Biological Museum - Insect collections Inventory
The dataset is a species index of our museum’s holdings of pinned, dry specimens as well as microscope slides in our main collection, with only parts of our wet collection. Each record holds information on the number of specimens by country of origin. The dataset contains over 4 million specimens, of which 70% originate from Sweden. The majority of the material has been donated by amateur collectors, while a large proportion of the foreign material comes from several expeditions in the 1900s, especially from South Africa and Sri Lanka.
Darwin Core Archive of Lund University Biological Museum - Insect collections Inventory
This database contains information on the specimens in the Phanerogamic Botanical Collections of the Swedish Museum of Natural History.
Darwin Core Archive of Phanerogamic Botanical Collections (S)
18S: A comprehensive dataset on spatiotemporal variation of microbial plankton communities in the Baltic Sea
A dataset covering spatiotemporal variation in eukaryotic microbial communities and physicochemical parameters of the Baltic Sea. Between January 2019 and February 2020, 281 transect-time course samples and 65 samples for protocol testing were collected from 19 stations in the Baltic Sea, Kattegat and Skagerrak. We analysed the samples with 18S ribosomal RNA (rRNA) gene and 16S rRNA gene metabarcoding, to capture the eukaryotic and prokaryotic diversity, respectively. Note that this resource was previously published as 'Metadata-only'. This dataset was published via the SBDI ASV portal (https://asv-portal.biodiversitydata.se/).
Darwin Core Archive of 18S: A comprehensive dataset on spatiotemporal variation of microbial plankton communities in the Baltic Sea
Swedish Bird Survey: Swedish waterbird census (September)
The Swedish waterbird census in September (Svensk sjöfågelinventering (september)) was started in 1973 as a complement to the Swedish part of the international midwinter census (Swedish waterbird census (January)). It is a valuable tool for monitoring roosting waterbirds as well as finding out which areas are important resting places for migrating waterbirds. The Swedish waterbird census (September) is one of several schemes within the Swedish Bird Survey, run by the Department of Biology at Lund University. The surveys are with a few exceptions carried out by volunteer ornithologists. In this dataset, some information is placed in the table ExtendedMeasurementOrFacts (eMoF), which is part of the Source Archive available to download directly from the dataset’s page on gbif.org. The Source Archive contains the data exactly as uploaded to gbif (verbatim). Should you choose to download the dataset as GBIF Annotated Archive instead, the data has been interpreted and quality controlled by gbif, but, the data in the eMoF will not be included, as the eMoF extension is not yet supported by gbif.
Darwin Core Archive of Swedish Bird Survey: Swedish waterbird census (September)
Fungal Diversity Survey Sweden ITS-LSU rDNA
Project Overview The project aims to investigate species diversity and variety from a citizen science perspective (more of a random character, i.e., not a strictly scientific research character). Project Goals Investigate species diversity and variety on a larger scale (>1,000 samples) Give sequences a "face" = metadata such as environmental data, field images, etc. Provide tools for species identification Use DNA barcoding of the ITS region Be cost-effective Be methodologically feasible from fruiting body to analyzed sequence Disseminate knowledge about the method Dataset Description The dataset contains DNA-barcoded samples of fungal fruiting bodies collected in Sweden. The collection has been mostly random and the selection has primarily been based on the collector's own interest. Collectors are mainly amateur mycologists. Barcoding has been performed on the ITS region and parts of the SSU and LSU regions. Additional observational metadata such as coordinates, images, and environmental descriptions are linked to the Swedish Observation System for each respective sample.This dataset was published via the SBDI ASV portal.
Darwin Core Archive of Fungal Diversity Survey Sweden ITS-LSU rDNA
SHARK - Regional marine environmental monitoring, recipient control and monitoring projects of Phytoplankton in Sweden since 1985
The monitoring is financed by the Swedish county administration boards, Swedish municipalities and Swedish coalitions of water conservation. Recipient control data financed by companies are also included. Monitoring is performed by Swedish universities and consulting firms. Data are stored in the Swedish Ocean Archive database (SHARK), by the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute. Data should be sampled and analyzed according to the HELCOM Guidelines for monitoring of phytoplankton species composition, abundance and biomass (https://helcom.fi/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/HELCOM-Guidelines-for-monitoring-of-phytoplankton-species-composition-abundance-and-biomass.pdf). However, deviations from the manual might occur. In short, analysis of phytoplankton species composition, abundance and biomass is carried out for the following purposes - to describe temporal trends in phytoplankton species composition, phytoplankton abundance, biomass as well as the intensity and occurrence of blooms - to describe the spatial distribution of phytoplankton species - to identify key phytoplankton species (e.g. dominating, harmful, potential non-indigenous and/or invasive species, as well as indicator species) - to provide basic data for complex ecosystem analyses, food web studies, modelling as well as political and social requirements such as indicators in the frame of the Marine Strategy Framework Directive of the European Union (MSFD; European Union 2008) and the EU Water Framework Directive (WFD; European Union 2000) (HELCOM COMBINE Manual https://www.helcom.fi/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Guidelines-for-monitoring-phytoplankton-species-composition-abundance-and-biomass.pdf) Information about the program and the methods are available in Swedish at the website of Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management, https://www.havochvatten.se/vagledning-foreskrifter-och-lagar/vagledningar/ovriga-vagledningar/undersokningstyper-for-miljoovervakning/undersokningstyper/vaxtplankton.html
Darwin Core Archive of SHARK - Regional marine environmental monitoring, recipient control and monitoring projects of Phytoplankton in Sweden since 1985
The Swedish Red List is produced by the Swedish Species Information Centre at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU Artdatabanken). The Swedish Red List 2020, published on April 22 2020, is the fifth Swedish Red List based on the IUCN Red List Criteria. The Swedish Red List is a compilation of the extinction risk of individual species and provides an overview of the status of Swedish species. Experts assess a sample of all species for which knowledge is considered sufficient. Assessments are based on criteria developed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), which include estimates of population size, abundance, distribution and trends, and include past, present and future changes, resulting in the species being placed in a particular category. Further reading, species-specific information and results are available at www.artdatabanken.se/rodlistning.
Darwin Core Archive of The Swedish Red List 2020
SLU Aqua National coastal bottom trawl survey of fish along the Swedish west coast
Yearly monitoring programme of marine benthic fish communities along the Swedish west coast from 2002-2024 and ongoing. Since year 2013 a 16 mm mesh sized bottom trawl is used, prior to 2013 a 70 mm mesh size was used. Fish are identified to species, and their total weight and a subsample of lengths of each species are measured and recorded. Total weight of a selection of crustaceans and cephalopods species are also recorded. Sampling is carried out in quarter three. The monitoring programme is financed by the Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management. Monitoring is performed by the Department of Aquatic Resources, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU). Data is stored in the database FD2 by SLU. https://www.slu.se/om-slu/organisation/institutioner/akvatiska-resurser/databaser/databasen-for-fiske-i-havet/
Darwin Core Archive of SLU Aqua National coastal bottom trawl survey of fish along the Swedish west coast
COOL BLUE: Biodiversity survey of low-trophic aquaculture sites in Sweden and Denmark using eDNA and video monitoring
This dataset provides species occurrence records from a biodiversity survey of low-trophic aquaculture sites cultivating blue mussels ( Mytilus edulis ), carried out within the COOL BLUE project. Records were obtained using two complementary monitoring approaches: eDNA metabarcoding, based on water samples and Autonomous Reef Monitoring Structures (ARMS) bulk samples, and baited remote underwater video (BRUV). For the BRUV approach, the associated video data were also used to train a machine learning model to identify the recorded taxa. Further information on the methodology and procedure is available here .
Darwin Core Archive of COOL BLUE: Biodiversity survey of low-trophic aquaculture sites in Sweden and Denmark using eDNA and video monitoring
The bird collection of Helsingborg Museums consists at present of over 2200 individuals representing about 650 species. The collection was mainly acquired during the early 1900’s. The Carl Möller collection, the first acquisition contributing to the bird collection of Helsingborg Museums, was acquired by way of purchase during March 28 in 1906 where 1 900 birds, a large insect collection and 4500 bird eggs were bought. The collection was created by Carl Möller, squire and conservator of the estate Vedelsbäck in Stehag parish, located near Ringsjön in Skåne, Sweden. The collection had previously been exhibited in a private museum in a wing of Möller's estate in Vedelsbäck. The acquisition was then described as consisting of "all Swedish species of birds, butterflies and beetles". Today Möller's collection consists of 840 birds collected in Skåne, 211 birds from the rest of Sweden, 335 collected in Europe and 265 from the rest of the world. For the birds where age is given there are about 260 chicks (pullus), 250 juveniles and 280 adults. The birds were collected during the 1848 to 1899 especially between the years 1869 to 1879. Carl Möller collected many of the birds himself but also had help from Hjalmar Christiernsson, Gustaf Kolthoff, Wilhelm Liljeborg, C. W. Lundborg, Tage Thott, Otto Möller and a number of other collectors. In addition to Carl Möller's bird collection, Helsingborg Museums have acquired 350 Swedish birds, 30 European birds and 110 birds from the rest of the world. For the birds where age is indicated there are 25 chicks (pullus), 105 juveniles and 165 adults. The largest part of the collection was acquired before 1910 from companies, institutions and individuals by way of barter, purchase or as gifts. The contributors are mainly Copenhagen Zoo, Biological Museum of Lund University, Nationalmuseum in Stockholm, Carl Granstedt and Harald Muchardt. Since 1910 only 85 birds have been acquired.
Darwin Core Archive of Bird Collection of Helsingborg Museums
Environmental long read amplicons of soil fungi across Podzol soil profile
Soil samples were collected in mid-October 2013 from Ivantjärnsheden field station in Jädraås (60°49‘N, 16°30’E, altitude 185 m), a well-documented field site in central Sweden (Persson, 1980) with Pinus sylvestris L. overstory and an understory of ericaceous dwarf shrubs (Calluna vulgaris (L.) Hull and Vaccinium vitis-ideae L.) and mosses (Dicranum majus Turner and Pleurozium schreberi (Bridel) Mitten). To account for small-scale variability in soil fungal communities we collected 5 soil cores (5 cm diameter and 15 cm deep) in each of 12 plots in the since terminated experiment IhII (9802) (Axelsson & Bråkenhielm, 1980). After visually dividing the plot into four quadrats one core were taken from the middle of each quadrat and from the middle of the plot after peeling back the top shrub and moss layer (incl. most of the litter layer). Soil cores were separated into visually distinct podzol soil layers: organic soil (O), mineral elluvial soil (E) and mineral illuvial soil (B) before pooling the layers for each plot. From each composite soil sample two sub-samples of approximately 0.5 g wet weight were collected for DNA extraction. Approximately 1500 bp of the rDNA from all soil DNA extracts was amplified using the primer set ITS1F (Gardes & Bruns, 1993) and LR5 (Hopple Jr & Vilgalys, 1994). A total of 5, 8 and 3 samples successfully amplified for O, E and B horizons, respectively (Table S1). PCR products from the separate soil horizons were pooled to generate three amplicon libraries (SwO, SwE and SwB) for sequencing at SciLifeLab/NGI (Uppsala, Sweden) on a PacBio RS II system (Pacific Biosciences, Menlo Park, CA, USA). This dataset was published via the SBDI ASV portal.
Darwin Core Archive of Environmental long read amplicons of soil fungi across Podzol soil profile
The Swedish Red List is compiled by the Swedish Species Information Centre (SLU Artdatabanken) at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences as part of the environmental monitoring and assessment programme Biodiversity. It includes assessments of the extinction risk of species in Sweden. The Swedish Red List 2025 was published on 24 March 2026 and is the sixth Swedish Red List to use the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List categories and criteria. This dataset includes all taxa that have been categorized as red-listed: Regionally Extinct (RE), Critically Endangered (CR), Endangered (EN), Vulnerable (VU), Near Threatened (NT) and Data Deficient (DD). All red-listed taxa are included regardless of taxon rank, i.e. it includes for example subspecies and species aggregates. Note that the Swedish Red List 2025 dataset published at the Swedish National Data Service (https://doi.org/10.5878/2x1z-jm10) contains only taxa that were treated as species during the Red List assessments, and consequently differs from this dataset which includes all taxon ranks. Further reading is available at https://www.slu.se/artdatabanken/rodlistade-arter/ (Swedish only).
Darwin Core Archive of The Swedish Red List 2025
CO1 Amplicon Sequence Variants of bulk arthropod samples (mild lysis) collected with Malaise traps from the Insect Biome Atlas project in Madagascar
Amplicon Sequence Variants of 418bp of CO1 from mild lysed arthropod community samples collected with Malaise traps from the Insect Biome Atlas project in Sweden, as described in the IBA data paper . This dataset was published via the SBDI ASV portal , and has been updated from 'Metadata only' to 'Occurrence' type. Occurrence data were compiled from the following IBA Figshare items: Processed ASV data from the Insect Biome Atlas Project v3: cleaned_noise_filtered_cluster_taxonomy_MG.tsv.gz spikeins_tax_MG.tsv.gz Amplicon sequence variants from the Insect Biome Atlas project v6: CO1_asv_counts_MG.tsv.gz CO1_asv_seqs_MG.fasta.gz The following samples were excluded from this resource due to sequencing failure: P26762_1247, P26762_1333, P27359_1207, P27361_1307, P27361_1148; or lack of non-zero counts for annotated ASVs: P27359_2998, P27361_1125, P27360_1032.
Darwin Core Archive of CO1 Amplicon Sequence Variants of bulk arthropod samples (mild lysis) collected with Malaise traps from the Insect Biome Atlas project in Madagascar
This database contains information on the fungi specimens registered so far in the herbarium of the Swedish Museum of Natural History. The fungi collection, the fungarium, consists of approximately 32,000 species and 370,000 objects, apart from the lichenized (lichen-forming) fungi, which are kept in a separate collection. Important collectors are Giacomo Bresadola, Paul Dietel, Paul Hennings, Nils Lundqvist, Heinrich Rehm, Lars Romell and Paul and Hans Sydow
Nordic Fauna at the Biological Museum, Skansen (Stockholm)
The collections of specimens at the Biological Museum, Stockholm, SwedenThe dataset covering the collection of the Biological Museum in Stockholm contains information about all extant specimens kept and presented in the museum´s exhibition, intended to portray “Nordic fauna in its natural surroundings” to visitors. Opened in 1893 in a purpose-built house, Nordic vertebrates (excluding fishes) are mounted and displayed in natural poses, placed in a 360-degree cyclorama amongst dried vegetation and fake terrain elements in front of a huge background wall-painting executed by the famous Swedish painter Bruno Liljefors.Mostly consisting of birds but also large, and some smaller mammals of Scandinavia, the original specimens and early additions and replacements were mounted in the atelier of the renowned wildlife hunter and taxidermist Gustaf Kolthoff (1845-1913). To the necessary extent, where pest insects have attacked the animals, certain successive replacements have been made, new animals then notably being brought in and mounted by taxidermists at “Kolthoffs naturaliemagasin”, and by Werner Berg, Birger Nordahl et al. (Swedish Museum of Natural History) during the mid-to late 19-hundreds. Some of the most recent specimens (mounted by Nicklas Svensson) were added during the last decade of the 20th century. The museum was thoroughly renovated in 1992 but remains intact from all other major aspects thus strongly representing a late 19th century view of nature and its inhabitants. It is presently undergoing a more extensive renovation aiming at presenting the 19th century cyclorama as when inaugurated.Since no catalogue of the museum´s specimens was ever kept, all information regarding the place of origin, time of collection, collector, acquisition and any additional information have been inferred from some (but very few!) specimen labels, and (primarily) from cross-tabulation of the written contents of a great number of successive editions of exhibit´s descriptions (printed booklets), from invoices, from mail conversation between the museum management and taxidermists, from informal notes and from interviews with former employees and informants.All animals were collected in their representative parts of Scandinavia including those found and brought back during a series of late 19th century, and early 20th century expeditions to Svalbard and Greenland (the latter presented in two separate, smaller dioramas. The latter animals were considered as “Nordic” representing North Atlantic and Polar Sea habitats under Nordic governance, and detailed expedition´s reports provide the most detailed information available on the provenance of these specimens.N.b. The contents of this dataset is simultaneously published by Digitalt Museum (https://digitaltmuseum.se/), serving Swedish and Norwegian cultural heritage institutions.
Nordic fauna; Birds; Mammals; 19th century; Cyclorama exhibition
Darwin Core Archive of Nordic Fauna at the Biological Museum, Skansen (Stockholm)
The threatened plants of Scania, Sweden collection is a curated collection of plants collected from known relic localities around Scania, often in collaboration with local authorities and always with correct permissions, of plants that are threatened according to the Swedish Red List. The plants are grown and shown at the Lund University Botanical Garden with the purpose of building up a genetic bank for eventual restoration efforts (that is conservation ex situ and eventually in situ).
Darwin Core Archive of Threatened Plants of Scania, Sweden
Tick collection_OH ALLIES project_Ireland
Data set containing the records of ticks collected under the OH ALLIES project (WP3) in Ireland.
Darwin Core Archive of Tick collection_OH ALLIES project_Ireland
21 ASVs of Juxtacribrilina mutabilis (Cribrilina mutabilis), 313bp length of CO1 gene. Acquired from European Autonomous Reef Monitoring Structures by ARMS-MBON programme between 2018 and 2021.
Darwin Core Archive of Juxtacribrilina mutabilis
16S data from: Diversity of Pico- to Mesoplankton along the 2000 km Salinity Gradient of the Baltic Sea (Hu et al. 2016)
16S rRNA gene metabarcoding data of surface water microbial communities from 21 off-shore stations following a transect from Kattegat to the Gulf of Bothnia in the Baltic Sea. The data was published in: Yue O O Hu, Bengt Karlson, Sophie Charvet, Anders F Andersson. Diversity of Pico- to Mesoplankton along the 2000 km Salinity Gradient of the Baltic Sea. Front Microbiol. 2016 May 12;7:679. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2016.00679. This dataset was published via the SBDI ASV portal.
Darwin Core Archive of 16S data from: Diversity of Pico- to Mesoplankton along the 2000 km Salinity Gradient of the Baltic Sea (Hu et al. 2016)
Artportalen is a website for reporting and retrieving information on observations of Sweden’s plants, animals and fungi. Observations are entered individually or into several thousand subsets/projects (some of which are individually searchable) by individuals and NGOs (95% of data), by public authorities or agencies, and by corporate enterprises. An observation may include not only the species identity, reporter identity, location and date but additional information such as habitat type and weather can also be entered. Access to ca. 93% of all data contained in the original dataset is unrestricted, the remainder is data for sensitive species as classified by the national checklist of sensitive species managed by SLU Swedish Species Information Centre. This dataset contains the open data. The restricted data can be retrieved from the original dataset given permission and requiring special log-in credentials. Artportalen covers more than 40 000 Swedish species out of the 62 600 recorded in total from the country, including plants (18% of data representing flowering plants and mosses), vertebrates (0.2% fishes and herptiles, 70% birds, 0.4% mammals), invertebrates (8%) and fungi (4%). 81% of all data represent observations made from 2001-present, and almost all remaining observations refer to the period 1951-2000. Taxa, nomenclature and hierarchy are sourced from Dyntaxa – the Swedish taxonomic database. Artportalen is developed and operated by the SLU Swedish Species Information Centre (SLU Artdatabanken) at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, on behalf of the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency.
Spatiotemporal Baltic Sea area 18S metabarcoding from three projects performed in 2015-2017 (+storage test 2019)
Darwin Core Archive of Spatiotemporal Baltic Sea area 18S metabarcoding from three projects performed in 2015-2017 (+storage test 2019)
SHARK - National marine environmental monitoring of Bacterioplankton in Sweden since 1989
The national monitoring program was initiated by the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency and is now financed by the Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management. Monitoring is performed by Umeå University. Data are stored in the Swedish Ocean Archive (SHARK) by the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI). Data should be sampled and analyzed according to the HELCOM COMBINE Manual - Part C Annex C11 Guidelines concerning bacterioplankton growth determination (https://helcom.fi/media/documents/Manual-for-Marine-Monitoring-in-the-COMBINE-Programme-of-HELCOM_PartC_AnnexC11.pdf). However, deviations from the manual might occur. Information about the program and the methods are available in Swedish at the website of Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management, https://www.havochvatten.se/hav/vagledning--lagar/vagledningar/ovriga-vagledningar/undersokningstyper-for-miljoovervakning/undersokningstyper/bakteriell-syrekonsumtion.html
Darwin Core Archive of SHARK - National marine environmental monitoring of Bacterioplankton in Sweden since 1989
Vertebrates of the Gothenburg Natural History Museum (GNM)
This database contains specimens of vertebrates from the Gothenburg Natural History Museum, collected from the early 1800's to present. New specimens are added continuously. Most of the birds and mammals are preserved as skins, while most fishes, amphibians and reptiles are preserved in alcohol. There are however, both wet and dry preserved specimens of a wide array of taxa from the entire world. The collections also include eggs and skeletons. The collection contains in total slightly less than 63 000 specimens, of which about half are birds. Fishes, amphibians & reptiles, and mammals are represented by roughly 10 000 specimens each. The bone collection contains about 18 000 skeletons, and the egg collection approximately 10 000 broods of which more than 1000 includes egg from common cuckoo, Cuculus canorus.
Darwin Core Archive of Vertebrates of the Gothenburg Natural History Museum (GNM)
Entomological Collections (NHRS), Swedish Museum of Natural History (NRM)
The dataset represents the digital holdings of insects, arachnids (mites and spiders) and myriapods (millipedes and centipedes) at the Swedish Museum of Natural History. These collections include over three million specimens, are international in scope, and have broad systematic and geographic coverage.
Darwin Core Archive of Entomological Collections (NHRS), Swedish Museum of Natural History (NRM)
Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Aulacigastridae
Darwin Core Archive of Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Aulacigastridae
16S: A comprehensive dataset on spatiotemporal variation of microbial plankton communities in the Baltic Sea
A dataset covering spatiotemporal variation in prokaryotic and eukaryotic microbial communities and physicochemical parameters of the Baltic Sea. Between January 2019 and February 2020, 281 transect-time course samples and 65 samples for protocol testing were collected from 19 stations in the Baltic Sea, Kattegat and Skagerrak. We analysed the samples with 18S ribosomal RNA (rRNA) gene and 16S rRNA gene metabarcoding, to capture the eukaryotic and prokaryotic diversity, respectively. Note that this resource was previously published as 'Metadata-only'. This dataset was published via the SBDI ASV portal (https://asv-portal.biodiversitydata.se/).
Darwin Core Archive of 16S: A comprehensive dataset on spatiotemporal variation of microbial plankton communities in the Baltic Sea
Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Auchenorrhyncha excl Delphacidae
Darwin Core Archive of Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Auchenorrhyncha excl Delphacidae
Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Asteiidae
Darwin Core Archive of Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Asteiidae
Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Bethylidae
Darwin Core Archive of Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Bethylidae
Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Banchini
Darwin Core Archive of Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Banchini
Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Chloropidae
Darwin Core Archive of Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Chloropidae
Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Cheloninae excl Adelius
Darwin Core Archive of Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Cheloninae excl Adelius
Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Cecidomyiidae: Porricondylinae (s lat)
Darwin Core Archive of Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Cecidomyiidae: Porricondylinae (s lat)
Risk assessment of alien taxa in Sweden 2018
List of risk assessed taxa known to have been introduced to Sweden, or taxa that could be introduced, and where the risk for invasiveness was assessed as ‘Very high risk’, ‘High risk’ or ‘Potentially high risk’ according to the analyses made 2018–2019 through the risk assessment method GEIAA v.3.3. For the full list see https://res.slu.se/id/publ/141245. The results presented are estimates of ecological impact and invasion potential, as well as risk class and outcome criteria.
Darwin Core Archive of Risk assessment of alien taxa in Sweden 2018
Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Brachycyrtinae
Darwin Core Archive of Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Brachycyrtinae
Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Conopidae
Darwin Core Archive of Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Conopidae
Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Coleoptera
Darwin Core Archive of Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Coleoptera
Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Clusiidae
Darwin Core Archive of Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Clusiidae
Climate-mediated upward shift of coffee agroforestry and associated reforestation in Arabica coffee’s native range
Climate change is expected to cause latitudinal and elevational shifts in where crops can grow, with major consequences for land use, rural livelihoods and biodiversity. Shifts in agroforestry systems can be especially transformative, as this alters tree cover. We used semi-structured interviews and vegetation surveys to investigate the patterns, drivers, consequences and future trajectories of an upward shift of Arabica coffee agroforestry within its native range in the Afromontane mountains. We observed a climate-, income- and crop raiding-driven upward shift of coffee production into a novel elevational range, with positive feedback mechanisms enhancing the future adoption of agroforestry. Forest and open-land-derived agroforests showed similar woody plant species richness and large overlaps in community composition. Open-land-derived coffee agroforestry is, and is expected to increasingly be, the dominant coffee agroforestry type in the novel range, with positive implications for tree cover, biodiversity and ecosystem services in one of the world’s biodiversity hotspots.
Darwin Core Archive of Climate-mediated upward shift of coffee agroforestry and associated reforestation in Arabica coffee’s native range
Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Chrysididae
Darwin Core Archive of Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Chrysididae
The Bergius Herbarium is the Bergius Foundations historical collection. It consists mainly of P.J. Bergius own collection with some additions made by the two first Professor Bergiani, O. Swartz and J.E. Wikström. The last accessions were made in 1856. The Bergius Herbarium includes specimens of angiosperms, gymnosperms, algae, bryophytes, fungi and lichens, including some type specimens. Important collectors are C.P. Thunberg, M. Grubb, D. Rolander, P. Osbeck, C.H. Wänman, C.G. Ekeberg, and O. Swartz. There are some 18000 specimens in the Bergius Herbarium, of which about 7200 are included in the dataset.
Darwin Core Archive of The Bergius Herbarium
Invertebrates Collection of the Swedish Museum of Natural History
The invertebrate collections (excluding insects) at the Swedish Museum of Natural History house over 500000 lots in ethanol, dry and on microscope slides. Mollusca constitute more than half of the collections. The geographic scope is worldwide, with a good representation of the Swedish fauna. In 2015, about 30% of the collections have been digitized. Type material is represented in a separate dataset. For further information and contact see http://www.nrm.se/english/researchandcollections/zoology/collections/invertebrates.305_en.html
Darwin Core Archive of Invertebrates Collection of the Swedish Museum of Natural History
Palaeozoological Collections (PZ), Swedish Museum of Natural History (NRM)
This dataset represents the physical and digital holdings of fossil animals at the Swedish Museum of Natural History. The collection includes more than one million items, including many type specimens. The main part of the collection consists of material from Sweden, mainly invertebrates from the lower Palaeozoic (Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian), including extensive collections from the Silurian of Gotland. The collection also includes rich faunas, both invertebrates and vertebrates, from the Mesozoic of Scania. The non-Scandinavian invertebrate material also includes particularly important collections of microfossils from the early Cambrian, fossil seep faunas and material from the Arctic and Antarctic regions. The vertebrate collections include one of the world’s richest collections of Devonian fish, with a focus on Spitzbergen, Greenland, and Germany. There are also important holdings of South American Pleistocene mammals.
Darwin Core Archive of Palaeozoological Collections (PZ), Swedish Museum of Natural History (NRM)
This database contains information of registered specimens and observations of the beetle collection of the Forest and Sami Museum in Lycksele, Sweden.
Bryophytes on all substrates, vascular epiphytic plants and woody plants in different habitats in Bonga, SW Ethiopia
The data of epiphytic plants is collected from one central tree located in a 10 x 20 m plot. The tree was climbed and species searched for both along the bole and in the crown. The identity of the central tree could be found in the “event” folder in the excel file. Then the full plot of 10 x 20 m was inventoried for additional species of bryophytes and woody plants of >5 cm and for vascular epiphytes up to around 2 meters on other threes and shrubs. Thus all species of woody species and bryophytes were included but only epiphytic vascular plants. The plots were in three categories: forest, plantation of Eucalyptus or Cupressus and finally homegarden with coffee under shade trees.Kristoffer Hylander collected all specimens. Voucher specimens can be found at the National herbarium in Addis Ababa.
Darwin Core Archive of Bryophytes on all substrates, vascular epiphytic plants and woody plants in different habitats in Bonga, SW Ethiopia
SLU Aqua Institute of Freshwater Research National register of survey test-fishing - NORS
Standardized test-fishing with Nordic multi-mesh gillnets is a widely used method in Sweden to investigate the fish fauna in a lake. In 2005 the method became an European standard (EN 14757). Standardized test-fishing catch most of the Swedish species in a representative way, giving a good estimate of species abundance and size distribution. The results are generally used for purposes of environmental protection and fishery management. NORS consists of thousands of test-fishing occasions back to the 1950’s. The Department of Aquatic Resources (SLU Aqua) at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences is responsible of collecting and checking test-fishing data generated in national and regional environmental programs, on behalf of the Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management. SLU Aqua also collect test-fishing data from several other types of investigations in order to create a database as representative as possible. The purpose is to facilitate obtaining data of high quality for research, national investigations and reports. The database also serves as a reference for local and regional investigations. All data is available for the public.
Darwin Core Archive of SLU Aqua Institute of Freshwater Research National register of survey test-fishing - NORS
National Inventories of Landscapes in Sweden: NILS Inventory 2003–2020
The NILS Inventory 2003–2020 is the original NILS landscape monitoring programme, conducted from 2003 to 2020, and encompassed all terrestrial environments in Sweden, including both lowland and alpine areas (lowland until 2018; alpine until 2020). The programme was established to monitor biodiversity across the Swedish landscape and to track long-term changes in the everyday landscape. A central component was to assess changes in landscape composition and structure, and the prerequisites for biodiversity. In years 2003–2018 data were collected nationwide, from 2019-2020 data collection continued only in alpine areas. The true coordinates of the permanent sample plots are protected. The coordinates in this dataset are generalised, by randomly offsetting true coordinates with 200-2000 m. See also Additional Information. The original NILS Inventory has been replaced and extended by five separate inventories specifically adapted to the different landscape types: the NILS Alpine Inventory (initiated 2021), NILS Deciduous Forest Inventory (initiated 2020), NILS Grassland Inventory (initiated 2020), NILS Wetland Inventory (initiated 2023) and the THUF Seashore Inventory (initiated 2012). Data from those inventories will be published in separate datasets and can currently be accessed only directly from the organisation.
Darwin Core Archive of National Inventories of Landscapes in Sweden: NILS Inventory 2003–2020
Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Diplazontinae
Darwin Core Archive of Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Diplazontinae
Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Diacritinae
Darwin Core Archive of Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Diacritinae
Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Dermaptera
Darwin Core Archive of Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Dermaptera
Swedish Butterfly Monitoring Scheme (SeBMS)
The SeBMS is a standarised monitoring scheme for monitoring butterflies in Sweden. This dataset includes records from traditional fixed transect sites, often called ‘Pollard Walks’, and point site counts which cover a set area for a standardised visit time. The SeBMS is run by Lund University for the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency, in partnership with the Entomological Society of Sweden, the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency, Lund University, the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, the Swedish Transport Administration and the Swedish County Administration Boards. In this dataset, some information is placed in the table ExtendedMeasurementOrFacts (eMoF), which is part of the Source Archive available to download directly from the dataset’s page here on gbif.org. The Source Archive contains the data exactly as uploaded to gbif (verbatim). Should you choose to download the dataset as GBIF Annotated Archive instead, the data has been interpreted and quality controlled by gbif, but, the data in the eMoF will not be included as the eMoF extension is not yet supported by gbif.
Darwin Core Archive of Swedish Butterfly Monitoring Scheme (SeBMS)
Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Dryinidae, Embolemidae
Darwin Core Archive of Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Dryinidae, Embolemidae
Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Drosophilidae
Darwin Core Archive of Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Drosophilidae
Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Dolichopodidae
Darwin Core Archive of Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Dolichopodidae
Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Dixidae
Darwin Core Archive of Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Dixidae
This database contains observation data of Lepidoptera at the Entomology Department, Swedish Museum of Natural History.
Darwin Core Archive of Lepidoptera (Observations)
Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Eupelmidae
Darwin Core Archive of Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Eupelmidae
Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Eumeninae
Darwin Core Archive of Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Eumeninae
CO1 Amplicon Sequence Variants of bulk arthropod samples (homogenized) collected with Malaise traps from the Insect Biome Atlas project in Sweden
Amplicon Sequence Variants of 418bp of CO1 from homogenized arthropod community samples collected with Malaise traps from the Insect Biome Atlas project in Sweden, as described in the IBA data paper . This dataset was published via the SBDI ASV portal , and has been updated from 'Metadata only' to 'Occurrence' type. Occurrence data were compiled from the following IBA Figshare items: Processed ASV data from the Insect Biome Atlas Project v3: cleaned_noise_filtered_cluster_taxonomy_SE.tsv.gz spikeins_tax_SE.tsv.gz Amplicon sequence variants from the Insect Biome Atlas project v6: co1_asv_counts_se.tsv.gz co1_asv_seqs_se.fasta.gz The following samples were excluded from this resource due to low read counts: P28409_1377, P28409_1378, P28409_1379, P28409_1380, P28409_1382, P28409_1383, P28410_1334, P28410_1392; or lack of non-zero counts for annotated ASVs: P27361_1636, P28410_1037, P28410_1049.
Darwin Core Archive of CO1 Amplicon Sequence Variants of bulk arthropod samples (homogenized) collected with Malaise traps from the Insect Biome Atlas project in Sweden
Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Dryomyzidae
Darwin Core Archive of Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Dryomyzidae
18S Metabarcoding Genetic Observations of Marine Species in the Port of Wallhamn, Sweden (2022)
This dataset contains genetic observations of marine species in the port of Wallhamn between June and September 2022. The observations were made using water and plankton samples, as well as samples from Autonomous Reef Monitoring Structures (ARMS) units. Species were identified using 18S metabarcoding. The dataset includes ASVs (amplicon sequence variants) and their associated metadata. This dataset was published via the SBDI ASV portal (https://asv-portal.biodiversitydata.se/).
Darwin Core Archive of 18S Metabarcoding Genetic Observations of Marine Species in the Port of Wallhamn, Sweden (2022)
The bird collection is among the largest in the world. The material includes skins, skeletons, alcohol preparations, eggs, as well as blood and tissue samples. The collection of skins is one of the world's largest and most species-rich, with 65% of the world's species represented. The skeleton collection, on the other hand, is relatively incomplete because it was more common to put whole birds in alcohol during collection trips in the past, rather than skeletonizing the animals. The last major review of bird types at the Swedish Museum of Natural History was made by Nils Gyldenstolpe in 1926, and the list includes a total of 283 types.
Darwin Core Archive of Ornithology Collection NRM
Terrestrial and Limnic Invertebrate Collection (GNM)
This dataset contains specimen data of terrestrial and limnic invertebrates from Gothenburg natural history museum. The collections contain several million specimens and new material are digitized continuously. It includes mostly Swedish specimens but also material collected in other parts of the world. A large part of the Swedish material comes from the museum's ”Terrestrial invertebrate faunistic research program”, which was carried out from the 1920s until 1981. The main bulk of the material consists of ethanol preserved specimens.
Darwin Core Archive of Terrestrial and Limnic Invertebrate Collection (GNM)
SHARK - National marine environmental monitoring of Zoobenthos in Sweden since 1971
The national monitoring program was initiated by the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency and is now financed by the Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management. Monitoring is performed by Stockholm University, Gothenburg University, Umeå University and Linnaeus University. Data are stored in the Swedish Ocean Archive database (SHARK), by the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute. The purpose of the monitoring program is to detect long term and short term changes in the soft bottom macrozoobenthos (>1mm) communities. Changes in the macrofauna community can indicate changes in environmental threats like eutrophication, environmental toxins and climate change. Data should be sampled and analyzed according to Leonardsson K. 2004. (In Swedish) Metodbeskrivning för provtagning och analys av mjukbottenlevande makroevertebrater i marin miljö. Umeå universitet, Institutionen för ekologi och geovetenskap, 26 p (https://www.havochvatten.se/download/18.1690613b166605675de898f4/1539942622449/rapport-umu-metodbeskrivning-provtagning-analys-mjukbottenlevande-makroevertebrater-i-marin-miljo.pdf). However, deviations from the manual might occur. Information about the program and the methods are available in Swedish at the website of Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management, https://www.havochvatten.se/vagledning-foreskrifter-och-lagar/vagledningar/ovriga-vagledningar/undersokningstyper-for-miljoovervakning/undersokningstyper/mjukbottenlevande-makrofauna-trend--och-omradesovervakning.html and https://www.havochvatten.se/vagledning-foreskrifter-och-lagar/vagledningar/ovriga-vagledningar/undersokningstyper-for-miljoovervakning/undersokningstyper/sediment---basundersokning.html.
Darwin Core Archive of SHARK - National marine environmental monitoring of Zoobenthos in Sweden since 1971
This database contains information on the algae specimens registered so far in the herbarium of the Swedish Museum of Natural History.
PIKE – Distribution, extinctions and introductions of freshwater fish in Sweden
The PIKE database are assembled by Göran Englund and co-workers at the Department of Ecology and Environmental Science at Umeå University. It contains information on presence of fish species, as well as introductions of new species, extinctions and rotenone treatments. Most data has been collected by governmental agencies and individuals who have shared their knowledge and data sets. The information derives from field surveys, interviews and inquires. A few hundred lakes have been surveyed within the project to obtain complementary data. Most of the occurrence data have been collected in the period 1890-2012. PIKE also includes information on water chemistry, lake depth, lake area,and much more. Most of the lakes are found in Sweden, but Norway and Finland are also represented.
Darwin Core Archive of PIKE – Distribution, extinctions and introductions of freshwater fish in Sweden
SHARK - National marine environmental monitoring of Phytoplankton in Sweden since 1983
The national monitoring program was initiated by the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency and is now financed by the Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management. Monitoring is performed by Stockholm University, Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute, Gothenburg University and Umeå University. Data are stored in the Swedish Ocean Archive database (SHARK), by the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute. Data should be sampled and analyzed according to the HELCOM Guidelines for monitoring of phytoplankton species composition, abundance and biomass (https://helcom.fi/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/HELCOM-Guidelines-for-monitoring-of-phytoplankton-species-composition-abundance-and-biomass.pdf). However, deviations from the manual might occur. Information about the program and the methods are available in Swedish at the website of Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management, https://www.havochvatten.se/vagledning-foreskrifter-och-lagar/vagledningar/ovriga-vagledningar/undersokningstyper-for-miljoovervakning/undersokningstyper/vaxtplankton.html. "In short, analysis of phytoplankton species composition, abundance and biomass is carried out for the following purposes • to describe temporal trends in phytoplankton species composition, phytoplankton abundance, biomass as well as the intensity and occurrence of blooms • to describe the spatial distribution of phytoplankton species • to identify key phytoplankton species (e.g. dominating, harmful, potential non-indigenous and/or invasive species, as well as indicator species) • to provide basic data for complex ecosystem analyses, food web studies, modelling as well as political and social requirements such as indicators in the frame of the Marine Strategy Framework Directive of the European Union (MSFD; European Union 2008) and the EU Water Framework Directive (WFD; European Union 2000)” (https://helcom.fi/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/HELCOM-Guidelines-for-monitoring-of-phytoplankton-species-composition-abundance-and-biomass.pdf)
Darwin Core Archive of SHARK - National marine environmental monitoring of Phytoplankton in Sweden since 1983
Linnaeus bought his summer estate Hammarby in 1758 and made it in a sense to a private research facility where we still today can study about forty plant species surviving from Linnaeus's days.
Darwin Core Archive of Linnaeus’ Hammarby, Uppsala University
Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Gasteruptiidae, Aulacidae
Darwin Core Archive of Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Gasteruptiidae, Aulacidae
Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Formicidae
Darwin Core Archive of Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Formicidae
The Linnaeus Garden is located at the site of the first botanical garden in Sweden founded in 1655 by Olof Rudbeck. It gained worldwide fame thanks to Carl Linnaeus who first, as a student, used his sexual system for plant classification in the garden before publishing it in 1735. Today's garden is a reconstruction of Linnaeus's baroque style garden. Only plants grown in the garden during Linnaeus's days are displayed.
Darwin Core Archive of Linnaeus Garden, Uppsala University
Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Figitidae excl Charipinae
Darwin Core Archive of Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Figitidae excl Charipinae
Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Evaniidae
Darwin Core Archive of Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Evaniidae
Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Ismaridae
Darwin Core Archive of Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Ismaridae
Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Ichneumoninae excl Phaeogenini
Darwin Core Archive of Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Ichneumoninae excl Phaeogenini
Database of observations made by Limnodata HB.
Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Heloridae
Darwin Core Archive of Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Heloridae
Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Heleomyzidae, Odiniidae
Darwin Core Archive of Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Heleomyzidae, Odiniidae
Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Lonchaeidae
Darwin Core Archive of Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Lonchaeidae
Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Lauxaniidae
Darwin Core Archive of Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Lauxaniidae
Mosquitoes collected in Skåne, Sweden within the project OH4Surveillance, 2025.
Darwin Core Archive of Mosquitoes OH4Surveillance 2025
This database contains information on the so far registered specimens in the fish collection of the Swedish Museum of Natural History. The database is managed with The Artedian collection management system in MS-Access. The main tables describe collecting events and collection objects which are related on a one to many relationships. The database is Darwin Core compatible but uses alternative table names and includes also loan routines, document management and other components of collection management. Principal items managed are objects (catalog number, identification, number of specimens, sex size, location in collection, collection space, preservative, identifier, etc.); localities (collecting events with date, collector, geographic information including coordinates, and more), collecting site habitat; loans (with extensive metadata), accession information (date of accession, donors, acquisition conditions etc., specimen preservation progress). DNA samples are managed as subsamples of objects. Specimen and collecting site images are managed with extensive metadata. The database has a web presentation at http://artedi.nrm.se/nrmfish.
Darwin Core Archive of Fish Collection NRM
The national wetland inventory (VMI) has for 25 years made inventories of Swedish wetlands that are situated below the mountain range. Wetlands have been defined in VMI as: "Land where water, for a large part of the year, is close to, in or above the ground, as well as vegetation-covered water areas. At least 50% of the vegetation should be hydrophilic, i.e. moisture loving, in order for it to be called a wetland area. An exception is sometimes dry-laid bottom areas of lakes, seas and streams. They count as wetlands even though they lack vegetation. " In total, VMI has invented 35,000 sites with a total area of 4.3 million hectares, which corresponds to 10% of Sweden's total land area. The purpose of the inventories has been to create a knowledge bank over the country's wetlands, which can be used for environmental monitoring and natural resource planning. By examining how and in what range wetlands are affected by human activities and by identifying valuable wetlands, their values can be preserved for the future. Inventory data was also planned to provide a basis for the authorities' handling of e.g. land drainage and logging. For practical reasons inventories has only been performed at larger wetlands below the mountain ranges. In northern Sweden inventories took place at all wetlands larger than 50 ha and in all wetlands in southern Sweden wetlands larger than 10 ha. All inventoried wetlands have been analyzed with aerial photos and remote sensing and has been classified according to the status of the nature values. A total of 12% of wetlands have also been visited in order to provide further knowledge. Based on the remote sensing, all wetlands were classified into one of the 47 different wetland types. Based on the spatial extent of wetland types, we have divided Sweden into five different marsh/bog-regions: Fell bog, Palsa bog, String bog, Raised bog and Pine bog/Beach wetland bog. The results of the VMI are regularly used by county administrative boards and municipalities and have been an important tool for national protection of wetlands. The regional inventories have been made by the various county administrative boards and the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency has acted as coordinator for the project. The digital data contains the delimitation of the VMI areas, a central coordinate and an ID (LOID). Via ID, you can extract data from access databases with information about species inventoried. More information on the project can be found at http://www.naturvardsverket.se/Om-Naturvardsverket/Publikationer/ISBN/5900/978-91-620-5925-5/.
Darwin Core Archive of National Wetland Inventory (NV)
Swedish National Forest Inventory: Presence-absence vegetation data (1995-2017, discontinued sample)
The Swedish National Forest Inventory (NFI) is a sample based field inventory performed by the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU). The annual inventory is undertaken on sample plots and this forms the basis for a large number of estimates. Data is collected across the whole of Sweden and statistics are published for all land use classes except urban land and sea and fresh water. The data collection is focused on forest land and particularly productive forest land. Since year 2003 areas within formally protected land are included and since year 2016 non–coniferous alpine forest are included. The sample size (number of permanent sample plots where presence/absence registrations are performed) was reduced by 50% from year 2018 and onwards. This dataset consists of the discontinued sample for the period 1995-2017, and supplements the data from the reduced sample available in the related dataset 'Swedish National Forest Inventory: Presence-absence vegetation data (1995-current)'.
Darwin Core Archive of Swedish National Forest Inventory: Presence-absence vegetation data (1995-2017, discontinued sample)
The insect collection at Vänersborg Museum includes insects from several collectors. The largest part of the collection comes from Gustaf Olof David von Hackwitz, lecturer in natural history at Högre allmänna läroverket in Vänersborg and curator of the Vänersborg Museum's natural history collections. His collection comes from several parts of the world and was collected between 1870 and 1914. Another part of the collection comes from the Vänersborg citizen Axel Wilhelm Eriksson (1846-1901), a well-known ornithologist and donor of the Vänersborg Museum's extensive collection of southwest African birds, a collection that also includes bird eggs, mammals, insects and ethnographica. Eriksson studied at Högre allmänna läroverket in Vänersborg from 1858 to 1862 and emigrated to southern Africa where, during the period 1869 to 1901, he ran an extensive trading business alongside zoological research. Most of the insects were collected by Eriksson and often have provenance and sometimes collection dates. The collection area is Namibia, Angola, South Africa and Botswana. Part of the collection was collected by the officer's son Gustaf Kylberg (1837-1917) from Såtenäs, Tun, Västergötland. He studied at Högre allmänna läroverket in Vänersborg during the 1840s and later worked as an office manager and architect in Göteborg. The insects come from Malacca, Malaysia. The date of collection is missing. Part of the collection was collected by the founder of the Vänersborg Museum, the merchant and philanthropist Adolf Andersohn (1820-1887). The provenance and date of collection are missing. Karl Gottfrid Schagerström (1863-1896), a student at Högre allmänna läroverket in Vänersborg 1873-1878, has donated a collection from the Belgian Congo where he served as a naval officer on the Congo River in the service of the Congo State during the years 1886-1896. The date of collection is missing. Knut Knutsson (1857-1930), from Sjöryd, Ås, Västergötland, student at Högre allmänna läroverket in Vänersborg 1867-1876, donated a collection from Cameroon and Sierra Leone. Knutsson worked as a businessman and acquired large areas of land in what is now Cameroon during the 1880s-90s and founded the trading house Waldau & Knutsson there. Knutsson also made collections for Svenska Sällskapet för Antropologi och Geografi. Knutsson has also donated a small collection of ethnographic items to the Vänersborg Museum. The collection date is missing. Lund Zoological Institute, a collection up to 1938. A small part was collected between 1996 and 1997 by biologist Torulf Greek, who was a project employee at Vänersborg Museum during the collection period. Both the provenance and collection date are included. It is also Torulf Greek who has identified all the insects in the collection.
Darwin Core Archive of Insect Collection at Vänersborg Museum
Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Macrolepidoptera
Darwin Core Archive of Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Macrolepidoptera
Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) Collection Inventory
SMTP data are occurrence data from a major inventory project targeting mainly flying insects, where Malaise traps were collecting on a large number of localities throughout Sweden during 2003-2006. The project is a part of the Swedish Taxonomy Initiative, and is currently run from Station Linné on Öland. The total catch has been estimated to approximately 80 million specimens, and sorting and identification is ongoing (and will continue for some time). Already after a small part of the catch has been identified to the species level, there are several hundreds of species new to the country or to science. Most of the material is kept in 96% alcohol, but certain groups are being dry-mounted in connection with identification, on pins or slides. The catch is part of the collections of the Swedish Museum of Natural History, and data are handled via the museum and the DINA system. The purpose of the inventory was primarily to find new species to the country and to science, and in general to acquire fresh material of poorly known insect groups for research projects within the Swedish Taxonomy Initiative framework, especially Hymenoptera and Diptera. However it turned out to be an interesting material also for mere faunistic mapping of the distribution of species within the country also for better known groups, and specimens and/or data can be used for investigating various ecological and other questions. Data is in the form of a sorting inventory or species lists. The difference is merely practical, since both concern identifications and record the occurrence of a certain taxon i a certain sample (representing a time interval and a particular locality). But sorting inventory deals with taxa on different levels which are continuously being identified by regular project staff for distribution to taxonomic specialists, while species identifications (and similar) represent the target level, and is performed by specialists for a particular group one by one (in single sub-projects if you will). Metadata (project description, trap description, trap localities and classification of what habitat they represent, temporal interval of single samples with occasional comments about physical quality (state of preservation) are detailed and constitute its own subset of data as well as a cornerstone in the occurrence data.
Darwin Core Archive of Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) Collection Inventory
This database contains information on the so far registered specimens in the Herpetology Collection of the Swedish Museum of Natural History. The database is managed with The Artedian collection management system in MS-Access. The main tables describe collecting events and collection objects which are related on a one to many relationships. The database is Darwin Core compatible but uses alternative table names and includes also loan routines, document management and other components of collection management. Principal items managed are objects (catalog number, identification, number of specimens, sex size, location in collection, collection space, preservative, identifier, etc.); localities (collecting events with date, collector, geographic information including co-ordinates, and more), collecting site habitat; loans (with extensive metadata), accession information (date of accession, donors, acquisition conditions etc., specimen preservation progress). DNA samples are managed as subsamples of objects. Specimen and collecting site images are managed with extensive metadata. The database has a web presentation at http://artedi.nrm.se/nrmfish.
Darwin Core Archive of Herpetology Collection NRM
Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Muscidae
Darwin Core Archive of Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Muscidae
Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Milichiidae excl Phyllomyza
Darwin Core Archive of Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Milichiidae excl Phyllomyza
Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Microlepidoptera
Darwin Core Archive of Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Microlepidoptera
Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Meteorini
Darwin Core Archive of Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Meteorini
Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Netelia
Darwin Core Archive of Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Netelia
Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Neorhacodes
Darwin Core Archive of Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Neorhacodes
SHARK - National environmental monitoring of Grey seal in Sweden since 1989
Darwin Core Archive of SHARK - National environmental monitoring of Grey seal in Sweden since 1989
Soil fungal communities of ectomycorrhizal dominated woodlands across West Africa
Forests and woodlands in the Guineo-Sudanian transition zone contain many tree species that form symbiotic interactions with ectomycorrhizal (ECM) fungi, which facilitate plant growth by increasing nutrient and water uptake. Despite their importance for ecosystem functioning and anthropogenic use, diversity and distribution of ECM fungi is severely under-documented in West Africa. We conducted a broad regional sampling across five West African countries using soil eDNA to characterize the ECM as well as the total soil fungal community in two vegetation types dominated by ECM host tree species. Sequencing of the entire ITS region and much of the LSU region allows us to infer a phylogeny for all detected soil fungal species. This data resource contain amplicon sequence variants (ASVs) generated from the dataset using the procedure established in Kalsoom-Khan et al. (2020) after accessing general read quality and ensuring that the majority of reads fell within the expected length (1-2 kb). In brief, raw sequence reads were filtered and trimmed, and PacBio-type chimeras were detected and removed using the tool cutadapt. Amplicons sequenced in reverse were reverse complemented. Reads were filtered using DADA2, discarding sequences with more than 3 expected errors as well as those with a length outside the range of 1200–1800 bases. Filtered sequences were then denoised using DADA2, with complete pooling and an increased alignment band size of 32. Singleton ASVs are not included in DADA2 denoising output. De novo chimera detection and removal were also performed in DADA2, with a minimum parent overabundance of 3.5 and allowing detection of chimeras with a single base difference from their parent sequence. This dataset was published via the SBDI ASV portal (https://asv-portal.biodiversitydata.se/).
Darwin Core Archive of Soil fungal communities of ectomycorrhizal dominated woodlands across West Africa
Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Mymar
Darwin Core Archive of Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Mymar
Vascular plants and bryophytes in heathlands in the Bale mountains, Ethiopia
This dataset consists of records of vascular plants and bryophytes from 48 plots of 5 x 5 m in heathland vegetation. The plots were laid out in sites with different time since fire and were inventoried in autumn 2015. The vascular plants are recorded as rare or common in each plot. Bryophyte data just consist of presence data. Voucher specimens of the bryophytes are deposited at the National Herbarium in Addis Ababa.
Darwin Core Archive of Vascular plants and bryophytes in heathlands in the Bale mountains, Ethiopia
Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Mycetophilidae, Keroplatidae
Darwin Core Archive of Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Mycetophilidae, Keroplatidae
The dataset represents the reference collection for pollen and spores at the Swedish Museum of Natural History (NRM), whose physical collection was is managed with herbarium specimens on behalf of the NRM Palynological Lab. The physical collections cover liquid and dry material in envelopes, which are primarily derived from collection objects already accessioned into the NRM herbarium. The remaining material pollen/spores are from specimens not found in the NRM herbarium. Each preparation has notes, which can also consist of sketches and illustrations, o or some preparations, photographs and negatives. Historical data associated with these preparations has been recorded on index cards whereas modern information about material may include LM, SEM and TEM images.
Darwin Core Archive of Palynological Reference Collection
Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Odonata
Darwin Core Archive of Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Odonata
FishBase is a global biodiversity information system on fin-fishes. From its initial goal to provide key facts on population dynamics for 200 major commercial species, FishBase has now grown to having a wide range of information on all species currently known in the world: taxonomy, biology, trophic ecology, life history, and uses, as well as historical data reaching back to 250 years. At present, FishBase covers >35,000 fish species compiled from >59,200 references in partnership with 2,480 collaborators, >325,700 common names and >61,700 pictures. The breadth and depth of information in the database, combined with the analytical and graphical tools available in the web, cater to different needs of diverse groups of stakeholders (scientists, researchers, policy makers, fisheries managers, donors, conservationists, teachers and students). Its various applications aim for sustainable fisheries management, biodiversity conservation and environmental protection. FishBase is currently hosted by the Quantitative Aquatics, Incorporated (Q-quatics), a non-stock, non-profit, non-governmental organization engaged in the development and management of global databases on aquatic organisms, including their distribution and ecology. It is scientifically guided by a Consortium of 12 international members.
Darwin Core Archive of FishBase Database
SHARK - National marine environmental monitoring of Harbour porpoise in Sweden
The national monitoring program is financed by the Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management. Monitoring is performed by the Swedish Museum of Natural History. Data are stored in the Swedish Ocean Archive (SHARK) by the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI). Information about the program and the methods are available in Swedish at the website of Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management, https://www.havochvatten.se/overvakning-och-uppfoljning/miljoovervakning/marin-miljoovervakning/tumlare.html
Darwin Core Archive of SHARK - National marine environmental monitoring of Harbour porpoise in Sweden
This database contains specimen data of Lepidoptera at the Entomology Department, Swedish Museum of Natural History.
Darwin Core Archive of Lepidoptera (Specimens NRM)
The insect collection at Gothenburg Natural History Museum (GNM) contains several million specimens of insects from many areas of the world. The oldest specimens date are from the early 19th century. Some of the collections were donated to the museum by private individuals, and we also have specimens from inventories carried out by museum staff, mainly at localities in Sweden. The vast majority of the Swedish material comes from the museum's ”Terrestrial invertebrate faunistic research program”, which was carried out from the 1920s until 1981. This has contributed to high numbers and a rich diversity of ground-dwelling insects in the collection, such as Carabidae (ground beetles) and Staphylinidae (rove beetles).
Darwin Core Archive of Entomological Collection (GNM)
These data represent the current knowledge on the distribution (establishment) status of arthropod vectors at ‘regional’ administrative unit level NUTS3 or equivalent and NUTS2 in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, The Netherlands, England (UK), Scotland (UK) and Wales (UK), and GAUL outside EU/EEA and Western Balkans and Türkiye, as established by experts based on reports. The eventDate indicates when this status was attributed, and is valid on the date of publishing (May 2026). The NUTS system used is that of 2024 version.
Darwin Core Archive of VectorDistributionStatus_2026
SHARK - Regional marine environmental monitoring and monitoring projects of Epibenthos in Sweden since 1994
The monitoring is financed by the Swedish county administration boards, Swedish municipalities and Swedish coalitions of water conservation. Recipient control data financed by companies are also included. The data is stored in the database SHARK, hosted and maintained by the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute. The Epibenthos monitoring programs and projects studies hard and soft bottoms from the surface down to 10-20 meters. Data is collected in transects or squares with help of divers. Species abundances are determined directly by the divers or photographs/video are taken and analyzed later. Field notes are in Swedish. Information about the program and the methods are available in Swedish at the website of Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management, https://www.havochvatten.se/overvakning-och-uppfoljning/miljoovervakning/organisation-och-programomraden/miljoovervakningens-programomrade-kust-och-hav/delprogram-vegetationskladda-bottnar.html, https://www.havochvatten.se/vagledning-foreskrifter-och-lagar/vagledningar/ovriga-vagledningar/undersokningstyper-for-miljoovervakning/undersokningstyper/vegetationskladda-bottnar-ostkust.html,https://www.havochvatten.se/vagledning-foreskrifter-och-lagar/vagledningar/ovriga-vagledningar/undersokningstyper-for-miljoovervakning/undersokningstyper/vegetationskladda-bottnar-vastkust.html
Darwin Core Archive of SHARK - Regional marine environmental monitoring and monitoring projects of Epibenthos in Sweden since 1994
Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Pachyneuridae
Darwin Core Archive of Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Pachyneuridae
This data set contains observations of dead seals made by the public, mostly around the Swedish coast. Each observation is verified at the Swedish Museum of Natural History before it is approved and published on the web. The verification consists of controlling the accuracy of coordinates and taxonomic determination. If the specimen is considered valuable to collect for autopsy, then observers may be contacted by the National Museum of Natural History or the Swedish Veterinary Agency (SVA) in Uppsala to obtain more information about the findings.
Darwin Core Archive of Seal Observation Database (NRM)
Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Omphale
Darwin Core Archive of Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Omphale
Ticks collected by flagging in northern Sweden. The collection and speciation was financed by the EU funded project OH4Surveillance.
Darwin Core Archive of Tick collection OH4Surveillance 2025
National Meadow and Pasture Inventory (TUVA)
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.
Darwin Core Archive of National Meadow and Pasture Inventory (TUVA)
Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Pimplinae
Darwin Core Archive of Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Pimplinae
Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Phrudus group
Darwin Core Archive of Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Phrudus group
Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Phoridae
Darwin Core Archive of Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Phoridae
Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Pallopteridae
Darwin Core Archive of Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Pallopteridae
Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Poemeniinae
Darwin Core Archive of Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Poemeniinae
Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Plecoptera
Darwin Core Archive of Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Plecoptera
Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Platygastridae (s str)
Darwin Core Archive of Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Platygastridae (s str)
CO1 Amplicon Sequence Variants of soil and leaf litter arthropod communities collected at Malaise traps from the Insect Biome Atlas project in Sweden
Amplicon Sequence Variants of 418bp of CO1 from soil and leaf litter arthropod communities collected at Malaise traps from the Insect Biome Atlas project in Sweden, as described in the IBA data paper . This dataset was published via the SBDI ASV portal , and has been updated from 'Metadata only' to 'Occurrence' type. Occurrence data were compiled from the following IBA Figshare items: Processed ASV data from the Insect Biome Atlas Project v3: cleaned_noise_filtered_cluster_taxonomy_SE.tsv.gz spikeins_tax_SE.tsv.gz Amplicon sequence variants from the Insect Biome Atlas project v6: co1_asv_counts_se.tsv.gz co1_asv_seqs_se.fasta.gz The following samples were excluded from this resource due to sequencing failure: P25259_1390, P25259_1407, P25259_1411, P25259_1420, P25259_1422, P25259_1423, P25259_1428, P25259_1431, P25259_1435, P25259_1436, P25259_1439, P25259_1440, P25259_1444, P25259_1452, P25259_1460, P25259_1467, P25259_1469, P25259_1476, P25259_1591, P25259_1594, P25259_1641, P25259_1649; or lack of non-zero counts for annotated ASVs: P25259_1438, P25259_1455, P25259_1471, P25259_1475, P25259_1586, P25259_1661, P25259_1742.
Darwin Core Archive of CO1 Amplicon Sequence Variants of soil and leaf litter arthropod communities collected at Malaise traps from the Insect Biome Atlas project in Sweden
Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Piophilidae
Darwin Core Archive of Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Piophilidae
Molluscs of the Gothenburg Natural History Museum (GNM)
The mollusca database at the Gothenburg Natural History Museum (Göteborgs Naturhistoriska Museum, GNM) comprises land living mollusca (snails and slugs) from Sweden from the ”Terrestrial invertebrate faunistic research program” of the museum from more than 28.000 localities. Also other Swedish materials of land- and freshwater molluscs in the museum collection are entered into the database – this is an ongoing, continuous process, which is far from complete.
Darwin Core Archive of Molluscs of the Gothenburg Natural History Museum (GNM)
Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Psylloidea
Darwin Core Archive of Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Psylloidea
Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Psocoptera
Darwin Core Archive of Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Psocoptera
Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Pompilidae
Darwin Core Archive of Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Pompilidae
CO1 Amplicon Sequence Variants of leaf litter arthropod communities collected at Malaise traps from the Insect Biome Atlas project in Madagascar
Amplicon Sequence Variants of 418bp of CO1 from leaf litter arthropod communities collected at Malaise traps from the Insect Biome Atlas project in Madagascar, as described in the IBA data paper . This dataset was published via the SBDI ASV portal , and has been updated from 'Metadata only' to 'Occurrence' type. Occurrence data were compiled from the following IBA Figshare items: Processed ASV data from the Insect Biome Atlas Project v3: cleaned_noise_filtered_cluster_taxonomy_MG.tsv.gz spikeins_tax_MG.tsv.gz Amplicon sequence variants from the Insect Biome Atlas project v6: CO1_asv_counts_MG.tsv.gz CO1_asv_seqs_MG.fasta.gz The following samples were excluded from this resource due to sequencing failure: P30904_2718, P30904_2719; or lack of non-zero counts for annotated ASVs: P30904_2599, P30904_2607, P30904_2592.
Darwin Core Archive of CO1 Amplicon Sequence Variants of leaf litter arthropod communities collected at Malaise traps from the Insect Biome Atlas project in Madagascar
Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Sepsidae
Darwin Core Archive of Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Sepsidae
Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Sciomyzidae
Darwin Core Archive of Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Sciomyzidae
Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Rogadinae
Darwin Core Archive of Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Rogadinae
Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Rhyssinae
Darwin Core Archive of Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Rhyssinae
Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Sphecidae (s lat)
Darwin Core Archive of Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Sphecidae (s lat)
Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - small parasitic aculeate families
Darwin Core Archive of Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - small parasitic aculeate families
Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - small Sciaroidea families
Darwin Core Archive of Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - small Sciaroidea families
National monitoring program for non-indigenous species (NIS), Sweden 2024
This project reports genetic data from the non-indigenous species (NIS) monitoring program in Sweden in 2024, as commissioned by the Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management, SwAM. The data were collected and submitted by Seanalytics, www.seanalytics.se in collaboration with University of Gothenburg. Sampling locations were situated in ports and marinas along the Swedish coast, including the Bothnian gulf, the Swedish West coast and Southern coast. Three types of samples (water samples, plankton samples, hard bottom samples) were collected during two seasons - late spring and late summer. Species were identified using COI metabarcoding. The dataset includes ASVs (amplicon sequence variants) and their associated metadata. Field protocols are documented in Sundberg et al (2024) DNA-baserad övervakning av arter i akvatisk miljö - verifiering och tillämpning. Naturvårdsverket rapport. pp 44. Rapport 7157. ISBN 978-91-620-7157-8 and Sundberg et al (2022) Genetic methods in environmental monitoring: Early detection and monitoring of non-indigenous species based on DNA. Report to the Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management 2022:4. ISBN: 978-91-89329-32-4. This dataset was published via the SBDI ASV portal .
Autonomous Reef Monitoring Structures (ARMS)
Darwin Core Archive of National monitoring program for non-indigenous species (NIS), Sweden 2024
Since Linnaeus's time, the Kungsängen Nature Reserve has drawn frequent visitors because of its vegetation including the largest population of Fritillaria meleagris L. in Sweden. The reserve is a meadow with an abrupt moisture transition, where the wetter part has a Carex acuta dominated plant community with low species richness, visually distinct from the drier part, which has a species rich plant community including a high density of Fritillaria meleagris. To investigate the link between plant and below-ground micro-eukaryotic communities, we amplified and sequenced the ITS and LSU regions of the rDNA operon (1500 bp) from soil using PacBio SMRT sequencing, and evaluated three different methods for generation of operational taxonomic units. We found distinct communities associated with wet and mesic-dry soil conditions but estimated richness was not so different. Both soil conditions host communities dominated by protists, a large fraction of which were taxonomically assigned to Ciliphora (Alveolata), while 30-40% of all reads were assigned to kingdom Fungi. Ecological patterns were consistently recovered irrespective of the read clustering method used. However, different clustering methods affect the taxonomic and phylogenetic resolution of community characterization with implications for how well members of the micro-eukaryotic communities can be recognized in the data. This data resource contain amplicon sequence variant (ASV) sequences generated with DADA2 using the Ampliseq pipeline (https://nf-co.re/ampliseq). This dataset was published via the SBDI ASV portal (https://asv-portal.biodiversitydata.se/).
Darwin Core Archive of Kungsängen soil microbial communities
A collection of forest soil samples collected in connection with the Swedish Forest Soil Inventory during 2014–2016. Organic topsoil samples were collected in 3 m2 plots in 359 conifer-dominated forest stands distributed across the Swedish boreal biome from 60° to 68° N and from 12° to 24° E. ITS2 markers were amplified from extracted DNA using the fungal-specific primer gITS7 and a 3:1 mix of the reverse primers ITS4 and ITS4arch, with both forward and reverse primers fitted with unique 8 bp sample identification tags. Composite amplicon samples were sequenced on the RSII platform (Pacific Biosciences) by SciLifeLab NGI (Uppsala, Sweden) after the addition of sequencing adaptors by ligation. This dataset was published via the SBDI ASV portal
Darwin Core Archive of Svampar i Sverige
COI data from: Invasive species detection along coastal harbours in northern region of Vastra Gotaland 2024
Environmental DNA sequence data of invasive species along the harbors in the northern regions of Vastra Gotaland. Sequence data was obtained from both water samples, and plankton samples of two sampling events, one in the summer and one in the autumn of 2024. The amplicons were amplified by COI Leray-XT primers: Wangensteen et al. 2018 and annotated against an inhouse database of invasive and non-indigenous species of Norway, Sweden and EEA created with EchoPipe: Stensrud et al. in press. The data was created for Länsstyrelsen Vastra Gotaland and financed through HaV. This dataset was published via the SBDI ASV portal.
Darwin Core Archive of COI data from: Invasive species detection along coastal harbours in northern region of Vastra Gotaland 2024
SHARK - Regional marine environmental monitoring, recipient control and monitoring projects of Zoobenthos in Sweden since 1972
The monitoring is financed by the Swedish county administration boards, Swedish municipalities, Swedish coalitions of water conservation and Swedish companies. Recipient control data financed by companies are also included. Monitoring is performed by Swedish universities, agencies and consulting firms. Data are stored in the Swedish Ocean Archive database (SHARK), by the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute. The purpose of the monitoring program is to detect long term and short term changes in the soft bottom macrozoobenthos (>1mm) communities. Changes in the macrofauna community can indicate changes in environmental threats like eutrophication, environmental toxins and climate change. Data should be sampled and analyzed according to Leonardsson K. 2004. (In Swedish) Metodbeskrivning för provtagning och analys av mjukbottenlevande makroevertebrater i marin miljö. Umeå universitet, Institutionen för ekologi och geovetenskap, 26 p (https://www.havochvatten.se/download/18.1690613b166605675de898f4/1539942622449/rapport-umu-metodbeskrivning-provtagning-analys-mjukbottenlevande-makroevertebrater-i-marin-miljo.pdf). However, deviations from the manual might occur. Information about the program and the methods are available in Swedish at the website of Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management, https://www.havochvatten.se/vagledning-foreskrifter-och-lagar/vagledningar/ovriga-vagledningar/undersokningstyper-for-miljoovervakning/undersokningstyper/mjukbottenlevande-makrofauna-trend--och-omradesovervakning.html and https://www.havochvatten.se/vagledning-foreskrifter-och-lagar/vagledningar/ovriga-vagledningar/undersokningstyper-for-miljoovervakning/undersokningstyper/sediment---basundersokning.html.
Darwin Core Archive of SHARK - Regional marine environmental monitoring, recipient control and monitoring projects of Zoobenthos in Sweden since 1972
Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Tephritidae, Ulidiidae
Darwin Core Archive of Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Tephritidae, Ulidiidae
Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Syrphidae
Darwin Core Archive of Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Syrphidae
Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Symphyta
Darwin Core Archive of Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Symphyta
Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Strepsiptera
Darwin Core Archive of Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Strepsiptera
Lund University Biological Museum - Insect collections Specimens
The dataset is based on an individual registration database of pinned, dry specimens, microscope slides or wet collection specimens. One record is usually but not always equivalent to one specimen. Some records are multiple specimens on the same pin with the same collecting information or multiple specimens in a vial with ethanol or on a slide, coming from one collecting event. The dataset contains close to 300 000 specimens, of which 83 % originate from Sweden. It is not representative of our collection as the data were gathered based on special project needs.
Darwin Core Archive of Lund University Biological Museum - Insect collections Specimens
This database contains information from the herbarium of Oskarshamn, Sweden. Specimens are collected from 1850 and later. The specimens are mainly collected from Sweden, but also from Austria, Norway, France and USA. The collection contains about 220 000 specimens of vascular plants.
Darwin Core Archive of Oskarshamn herbarium (OHN)
Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Trixoscelididae
Darwin Core Archive of Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Trixoscelididae
CO1 Amplicon Sequence Variants of bulk arthropod samples (preservative ethanol) collected with Malaise traps from the Insect Biome Atlas project in Sweden
Amplicon Sequence Variants of 418bp of CO1 from the preservative ethanol of bulk arthropod samples collected with Malaise traps from the Insect Biome Atlas project in Sweden, as described in the IBA data paper . This dataset was published via the SBDI ASV portal , and has been updated from 'Metadata only' to 'Occurrence' type. Occurrence data were compiled from the following IBA Figshare items: Processed ASV data from the Insect Biome Atlas Project v3: cleaned_noise_filtered_cluster_taxonomy_SE.tsv.gz spikeins_tax_SE.tsv.gz Amplicon sequence variants from the Insect Biome Atlas project v6: co1_asv_counts_se.tsv.gz co1_asv_seqs_se.fasta.gz
Darwin Core Archive of CO1 Amplicon Sequence Variants of bulk arthropod samples (preservative ethanol) collected with Malaise traps from the Insect Biome Atlas project in Sweden
Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Trichoptera
Darwin Core Archive of Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Trichoptera
Swedish National Forest Inventory: Presence-absence vegetation data (1995-current)
The Swedish National Forest Inventory (NFI) is a sample based field inventory performed by the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU). The annual inventory is undertaken on sample plots and this forms the basis for a large number of estimates. Data is collected across the whole of Sweden and statistics are published for all land use classes except urban land and sea and fresh water. The data collection is focused on forest land and particularly productive forest land. Since year 2003 areas within formally protected land are included and since year 2016 non–coniferous alpine forest are included. The sample size (number of permanent sample plots where presence/absence registrations are performed) was reduced by 50% from year 2018 and onwards. This dataset consists of the reduced sample. The supplement data from the discontinued sample for the period 1995-2017 is available in the related dataset 'Swedish National Forest Inventory: Presence-absence vegetation data (1995-2017, supplement sample)'.
Darwin Core Archive of Swedish National Forest Inventory: Presence-absence vegetation data (1995-current)
Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Thysanoptera
Darwin Core Archive of Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Thysanoptera
Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Therevidae
Darwin Core Archive of Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Therevidae
Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Xoridinae
Darwin Core Archive of Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Xoridinae
Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Vespinae
Darwin Core Archive of Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) - Vespinae
SLU Aqua Institute of Freshwater Research Swedish Electrofishing Registry - SERS
Electrofishing is a quantitative method to monitor the fish fauna in running waters, allowing fish to be released back alive. SERS consists of results from 81 000 electrofishing occasions all over Sweden, as far as back to the 1950’s. The Department of Aquatic Resources (SLU Aqua) at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences is responsible of collecting and quality assuring test-fishing data generated in national and regional environmental programs, on behalf of the Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management. The purpose is to facilitate the access of high quality data for research, national investigations and reports. The database also serves as a reference for local and regional investigations. All data is available for the public (www.slu.se/elfiskeregistret).
Darwin Core Archive of SLU Aqua Institute of Freshwater Research Swedish Electrofishing Registry - SERS
Lund University Biological Museum - Zoological collections (MZLU)
This database contains information on birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibians and invertebrates, except insects, from the Zoological Collections in the Museum of Biology of Lund, Sweden.
Darwin Core Archive of Lund University Biological Museum - Zoological collections (MZLU)
Dataset containing the records of vectors collected under the REVIVE program to the SIVIZ project in Portugal
Darwin Core Archive of VectorCollection_SIVIZ_project_Portugal
Swedish Bird Survey: Summer point count routes (Sommarpunktrutterna)
The summer and winter point count routes (“punktrutterna”) are two of several schemes within the Swedish Bird Survey (see below), run by the Department of Biology at Lund University. The point count routes were initiated in 1975 as a standardized method for detecting and reporting changes in the abundance of birds and their distributions in Sweden over time. The point count routes can be surveyed in summer and/or winter.The surveys are initiated and carried out by volunteer ornithologists who use standardized methods to count birds along routes of their own choice.Nearly 3200 point count routes have been surveyed at least once up to and including the year 2024, and approximately 1250 of these have been surveyed during the summer. The dataset presented here is for the summer point count routes.In this dataset, some information is placed in the table ExtendedMeasurementOrFacts (eMoF), which is part of the Source Archive available to download directly from the dataset’s page here on gbif.org. The Source Archive contains the data exactly as uploaded to gbif (verbatim). Should you choose to download the dataset as GBIF Annotated Archive instead, the data has been interpreted and quality controlled by gbif, but, the data in the eMoF will not be included as the eMoF extension is not yet supported by gbif.
Darwin Core Archive of Swedish Bird Survey: Summer point count routes (Sommarpunktrutterna)
This database contains information about bird ringing in Sweden.
Darwin Core Archive of Bird Ringing Centre in Sweden (NRM)
Bird communities in homegardens at different distances from Afromontane forests in SW Ethiopia
This is a study comparing the bird diversity in homegardens and forests in southwestern Ethiopia. The data consist of both point count and mist netting data from 8 sites: two forest sites and 3 homegardens close to the forest edge and 3 homegardens far from the forest. The results are published in: Engelen, D., Lemessa, D., Şekercioglu, C. & Hylander, K. 2016. Similar bird communities in homegardens at different distances from Afromontane forests. Bird Conservation International 8:1-13. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0959270916000162
Darwin Core Archive of Bird communities in homegardens at different distances from Afromontane forests in SW Ethiopia
Bird and bat diversity in coffee agroforests in Arabica coffee’s native range
This data is gathered by passive sampling of sounds using audiomoths in 30 sites in SW Ethiopia. All the sites are dominated by coffee but with different intensities of management. The bird sounds were identified by experts. They also noted sounds of three primate species that are not used in the published paper but reported here. Finally, the bat sounds were analyzed statistically to separate different sonotypes, but we were not able to taxonomically identify them. We collected data on herbivory on coffee and coffee yield and a number of environmental variables that could possibly explain the variation in biodiversity or the relationships between the biodiversity variables and herbivory and yield. All this associated data that could be coupled to a site is also published here along with the species records. If you are interested in the raw recordings please contact us. See the published paper, Tack et al. 2025 in Basic and Applied Ecology, for more details on methods and the data.
Darwin Core Archive of Bird and bat diversity in coffee agroforests in Arabica coffee’s native range
Swedish Bird Survey: Swedish coastal bird monitoring programme (Nationella kustfågelövervakningen)
The Swedish coastal bird monitoring programme (aka the ”Archipelago squares”/”Kustfågelrutorna”) is one of several schemes within the Swedish Bird Survey (see below), run by the Department of Biology at Lund University. The survey scheme was initiated in 2015 as a standardized method for detecting and reporting changes in the abundance of coastal and archipelagic birds and their distributions in Sweden over time. The 200 archipelago squares are distributed along the Swedish coastline and are surveyed during the breeding season. In this dataset, some information is placed in the table ExtendedMeasurementOrFacts (eMoF), which is part of the Source Archive available to download directly from the dataset’s page here on gbif.org. The Source Archive contains the data exactly as uploaded to gbif (verbatim). Should you choose to download the dataset as GBIF Annotated Archive instead, the data has been interpreted and quality controlled by gbif, but, the data in the eMoF will not be included as the eMoF extension is not yet supported by gbif.
Darwin Core Archive of Swedish Bird Survey: Swedish coastal bird monitoring programme (Nationella kustfågelövervakningen)
Palaeobotanical Collections (PB), Swedish Museum of Natural History (NRM)
This dataset represents the physical and digital holdings of fossil plants at the Swedish Museum of Natural History. The collections include more than 300,000 items, including over 1,000 type specimens. The Chinese Carboniferous-Permian floras are rich in horsetails (sphenopsids) and ferns including material published in 1927 in the monograph "Paleozoic Plants from Central Shansi" by Thore Halle. These collections also include relatives of ginkgos, conifers as well as early gymnosperms, such as Tingiales and Noeggerathiales, and seed ferns belonging to the orders Medullosales and Gigantopteridales. Polar regions are well-represented including 25,000 fossils from Spitsbergen, Greenland, Iceland and Björnön covering the time interval from 400 million years ago during the Devonian period to the modern floras of the Oligocene. The museum has a growing collection of fossil plants from Australia due to ongoing active research and collection from this region. The Permian Australian floras are dominated by glossopterids with collections from the Sydney and Bowen basins including three-dimensionally preserved silicified floras from Homevale in Queensland.
Darwin Core Archive of Palaeobotanical Collections (PB), Swedish Museum of Natural History (NRM)
Living Collection of the Gothenburg Botanical Garden
The area in total is 175 hectares (ca 430 acres), of which most constitutes a nature reserve including the arboretum. The garden proper is about 40 hectares and here grow some 16,000 different species and cultivars. There are many different parts of the garden such as the Rhododendron Valley, the Japanese Glade and the Rockgarden. In the Greenhouses you will find about 4,000 various species and cultivars, including some 1,500 orchids, a remarkable travertine department and the rare Eastern Island Tree. The garden is involved in conservation projects of threatened species in western Sweden.
Darwin Core Archive of Living Collection of the Gothenburg Botanical Garden
This dataset contains information on 423 registered specimens of the private collection of birds by Otto Hedin currently curated at Kärrboda Gårdsmuseum, Nyköping, Sweden. The dataset was prepared by Kristina Hedin in 2014. The collection contains specimens collected between 1810 and 1915.
Darwin Core Archive of Bird Collection of Otto Hedin
COI Metabarcoding Genetic Observations of Marine Species in the Port of Wallhamn, Sweden (2022)
This dataset contains genetic observations of marine species in the port of Wallhamn between June and September 2022. The observations were made using water and plankton samples, as well as samples from Autonomous Reef Monitoring Structures (ARMS) units. Species were identified using COI metabarcoding. The dataset includes ASVs (amplicon sequence variants) and their associated metadata. This dataset was published via the SBDI ASV portal (https://asv-portal.biodiversitydata.se/).
Darwin Core Archive of COI Metabarcoding Genetic Observations of Marine Species in the Port of Wallhamn, Sweden (2022)
Vector collection_OH surveillance project_Sweden
Data set containing the records of vectors collected under the One Health surveillance project in Sweden .
Darwin Core Archive of Vector collection_OH surveillance project_Sweden
SHARK - Phyto- and Microzooplankton Data Collected by Imaging FlowCytobots (IFCB) in Swedish and Adjacent Waters
Data is stored in the Swedish Ocean Archive database (SHARK), by the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute, National Oceanographic Data Centre.Monitoring is performed by Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute. The monitoring is financed by monitoring projects.In short, analysis of phyto- and microzooplankton species composition, abundance and biomass is carried out for the following purposes.To describe temporal trends as well as the intensity and occurrence of blooms.To describe the spatial distribution of species.To identify key species (e.g. dominating, harmful, potential non-indigenous and/or invasive species, as well as indicator species).To provide basic data for complex ecosystem analyses, food web studies, modelling as well as for requirements in the frame of the Marine Strategy Framework Directive of the European Union (MSFD European Union 2008) and the EU Water Framework Directive (WFD European Union 2000).In this dataset you will find data from Tangesund oceanographic platform, Swedish Skagerrak coast year 2016 (IFCB110), and from R/V Svea (https://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/C17/current/77SE/) from year 2022 onwards (IFCB134). Other sampling platforms are possible.
Darwin Core Archive of SHARK - Phyto- and Microzooplankton Data Collected by Imaging FlowCytobots (IFCB) in Swedish and Adjacent Waters
Ants on shade trees in coffee agroforests in SW Ethiopia
This dataset consists of ants collected in SW Ethiopia in the Goma and Gera districts in coffee agroforestry sites. Four species have been identified and Crematogaster chiarinii is mostly collected from a tree with a carton nest. The other species probably don’t use carton nests but have been sampled in the same sites on stems and on coffee.
Darwin Core Archive of Ants on shade trees in coffee agroforests in SW Ethiopia
SHARK - National and regional marine environmental monitoring of Picoplankton in Sweden since 2002
The national monitoring program was initiated by the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency and is now financed by the Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management. Monitoring is performed by Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute and Umeå University Data are stored in the Swedish Ocean Archive database (SHARK), by the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute. Data should be sampled and analyzed according to MacIsaac E A and Stockner J G 1993. Enumeration of phototrophic picoplankton by autoflourescence microscopy. In Handbook of methods in aquatic microbial ecology. Kemp P F, Sherr B F, Sherr E B, and Cole J J (eds.) Lewis, Boca Raton. pp. 187-197. However, deviations from the manual might occur. Information about the program and the methods are available in Swedish at the website of Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management, https://www.havochvatten.se/overvakning-och-uppfoljning/miljoovervakning/organisation-och-programomraden/miljoovervakningens-programomrade-kust-och-hav/delprogram-fria-vattenmassan.html, and at https://helcom.fi/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/HELCOM-Guidelines-for-monitoring-of-phytoplankton-species-composition-abundance-and-biomass.pdf and https://www.ospar.org/documents?d=35398.
Darwin Core Archive of SHARK - National and regional marine environmental monitoring of Picoplankton in Sweden since 2002
National Inventories of Landscapes in Sweden, Department of Forest Resource Management, SLU
National Center for Public Health and Pharmacy
Instituto Nacional de Saúde Doutor Ricardo Jorge
The Linnaean Gardens of Uppsala, Uppsala University
Swedish National Forest Inventory, Department of Forest Resource Management, SLU
The Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute
The Bergius Foundation at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Department of Soil and Environment, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU)