National Inventories of Landscapes in Sweden: Presence-absence Vegetation data

Dataset type

This dataset that contains event based data for species which may include sampling information

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.

Geographic Description

All data is collected within Sweden.

Methods

See sampling description

Type of content

Includes: Point occurrence data.

Citation

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

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.

Digitised records

Metadata last updated on 2025-12-14 18:57:23.0