Dataset type
This dataset that contains primary occurrence data for species.
Description
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.
Geographic Description
Sweden
Type of content
Includes: Point occurrence data.Citation
No citation information available.
Rights
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License.
Digitised records
Looking up... the number of records that can be accessed through the Swedish Biodiversity Data Infrastructure. This resource was last checked for updated data on 27 Aug 2024. The most recent data was published on 24 Mar 2023.
Metadata last updated on 2024-08-27 06:54:12.0
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Licence
Creative Commons Attribution (International) 4.0
