The Swedish Red List 2020

Dataset type

This dataset contains a list of species with an associated trait.

Description

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.

This list was first uploaded by Manash Shah on the Thu Jun 17 14:44:59 CEST 2021.It contains [totalRecords:11240, successfulItems:11240] taxa.

Geographic Description

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

Purpose

The Red List has been developed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) to evaluate the health of the world’s biodiversity (www.iucnredlist.org). The Swedish Red List has been revised every fifth year based on the IUCN Red List Criteria, and describes the relative extinction risk of the evaluated species in Sweden. The Red List can be viewed as an indication of the status of the evaluated Swedish species, and is an important tool for identifying species and actions to be targeted in nature conservation.

Data quality

Before finalising results, a public review was conducted.

Methods

The Swedish Red List 2020 is based on the international IUCN Red List Criteria (IUCN 2012). The evaluations were made in collaboration with more than 100 experts, subdivided into 14 committees treating different organism groups.Information on occurrence, distribution and trends was compiled from environmental monitoring, reports by the public in Artportalen (www.artportalen.se), expert knowledge, research data, museum collections and literature.Detailed information on population size and trends was only available for a restricted number of species, whereas in most cases estimates were calculated or inferred based on ecological knowledge combined with data on habitat status. Our knowledge of many organism groups is still very poor, and many species (e.g. marine invertebrates) are therefore categorized as Data Deficient (DD). Others are not evaluated (NE) – e.g. many invertebrates and fungi – or regarded as not applicable (NA).

Type of content

Includes: Point occurrence data.

Citation

SLU Artdatabanken (2020). The Swedish Red List 2020. Checklist dataset

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.

Metadata last updated on 2024-08-27 06:54:10.0