Risk assessment of alien taxa in Sweden 2018

Checklist
Latest version published by SLU Artdatabanken on Mar 27, 2026 SLU Artdatabanken
Publication date:
March 27, 2026
Published by:
SLU Artdatabanken
License:
CC0 1.0

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Description

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.

Data Records

The data in this checklist 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 720 records.

3 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.

Taxon (core)
720
Reference 
913
VernacularName 
442
Distribution 
311

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The publisher and rights holder of this work is SLU Artdatabanken. 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: d96d4cae-143f-4db2-b367-24704f15de56.  SLU Artdatabanken publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF Sweden.

Keywords

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External data

The resource data is also available in other formats

Klassificering av främmande arters effekter på biologisk mångfald i Sverige – ArtDatabankens risklista https://publications.slu.se/?file=publ/show&id=141245 n/a pdf

Contacts

SLU Swedish Species Information Centre
Uppsala
SE

Geographic Coverage

The country of Sweden including the area of Sweden’s Economic Zone (EEZ).

Bounding Coordinates South West [54.96, 10.03], North East [69.06, 24.17]

Taxonomic Coverage

Taxa known to have been introduced to Sweden, belonging to animals, plants, fungi and chromista.

Kingdom Animalia (Animals), Fungi (Fungi), Plantae (Plants), Chromista (Kelp, Diatoms, and Allies)

Bibliographic Citations

  1. Strand, M., Aronsson, M. & Svensson, M. (2018). Klassificering av främmande arters effekter på biologisk mångfald i Sverige – ArtDatabankens risklista (ArtDatabanken rapporterar 21). Uppsala: SLU ArtDatabanken. https://res.slu.se/id/publ/141245

Additional Metadata

Maintenance Description Risk assessment will be updated in about 5 year cycles. The next risk assessment will be published as a new dataset.
Alternative Identifiers d96d4cae-143f-4db2-b367-24704f15de56
https://www.gbif.se/ipt/resource?r=riskassessmentofinvasivetaxa