Description
National Inventories of Landscapes in Sweden (NILS) has developed into a national environmental monitoring programme umbrella under which a number of monitoring programmes are gathered: the NILS Basic Inventory 2003-2020, the THUF Seashore inventory 2009- (ongoing), the NILS Grassland inventory 2020- (ongoing), the Descidious forest inventory 2020- (ongoing), the NILS Mountain area inventory 2003-2020.
Two thirds of the sample consists of permanent tracts and one third are temporary tracts. The permanent tracts are revisited every 5th year and the temporary tracts are only visited once. The true coordinates of the permanent sample plots are protected. The coordinates in this dataset are generalised, by randomly offsetting true coordinates with 200-1000 m.
Data Records
The data in this sampling event resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 17,990 records.
1 extension data tables also exist. An extension record supplies extra information about a core record. The number of records in each extension data table is illustrated below.
This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.
Versions
The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.
How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Hedenås H (2025). National Inventories of Landscapes in Sweden: Presence-absence Vegetation data. Version 1.1. National Inventories of Landscapes in Sweden, Department of Forest Resource Management, SLU. Samplingevent dataset. https://www.gbif.se/ipt/resource?r=nils-event&v=1.1
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is National Inventories of Landscapes in Sweden, Department of Forest Resource Management, SLU. To the extent possible under law, the publisher has waived all rights to these data and has dedicated them to the Public Domain (CC0 1.0). Users may copy, modify, distribute and use the work, including for commercial purposes, without restriction.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 133c7d7c-81cf-4114-bf12-30c5d1a57e0d. National Inventories of Landscapes in Sweden, Department of Forest Resource Management, SLU publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF Sweden.
Keywords
Samplingevent; Observation
Contacts
- Point Of Contact
- Programme Director
- Environmental Assessment Specialist
- Researcher
- Skogsmarksgränd 17
- Point Of Contact
- Programme Director
- Researcher
- Environmental Assessment Specialist
- Skogsmarksgränd 17
- Programmer
Geographic Coverage
All data is collected within Sweden.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [55.179, 10.371], North East [69.535, 24.609] |
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Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 2003-01-01 / 2019-12-31 |
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Project Data
No Description available
| Title | National Inventories of Landscapes in Sweden: |
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| Funding | The Swedish NILS survey is founded by the Swedish Enviromental Protection Agency |
| Study Area Description | Sweden |
| Design Description | See the project website (https://www.slu.se/centrumbildningar-och-projekt/nils/publikationer/faltinstruktioner/) for descriptions of the individual survey schemes in swedish. |
The personnel involved in the project:
- Author
Sampling Methods
See more information in the link to the sampling protocol in Swedish https://publications.slu.se/?file=publ/show&id=119070&lang=en
| Study Extent | Data are collected at sampling sites across the whole of Sweden. |
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Method step description:
- See sampling description
Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | 133c7d7c-81cf-4114-bf12-30c5d1a57e0d |
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| https://www.gbif.se/ipt/resource?r=nils-event |