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.
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 11,240 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.
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:
SLU Artdatabanken (2020). The Swedish Red List 2020. Checklist dataset
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
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: 23c0a6c4-f1f4-4577-ac5c-98787c1a2d0c. SLU Artdatabanken publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF Sweden.
Keywords
Checklist; Checklist; Red List; red-listed species; conservation; IUCN; biodiversity
Contacts
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] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
Species belonging to the kingdoms Bacteria, Animalia, Chromista, Fungi, Plantae and Protozoa.
| Kingdom | Bacteria (Bacteria), Animalia (Animals), Chromista (Chromists), Fungi (Fungi), Plantae (Plants), Protozoa (Protozoans) |
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Sampling Methods
Assessments of the extinction risk of individual species 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. Experts assess a sample of all species for which knowledge is considered sufficient. More information is available at www.artdatabanken.se/rodlistning and https://www.iucnredlist.org/.
| Study Extent | The Swedish red list assesses species that are resident and reproducing in Sweden. Experts assess a sample of all species for which knowledge is considered sufficient. Assessmenta are made every fifth year, with the current Swedish red list published 2020 and being valid until publication of the next Swedish red list in 2026. |
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| Quality Control | Before finalising results, a public review was conducted. |
Method step description:
- 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).
Bibliographic Citations
- SLU Artdatabanken (2020). Rödlistade arter i Sverige 2020. Uppsala: SLU Artdatabanken. https://www.artdatabanken.se/globalassets/ew/subw/artd/6-publikationer/31.-rodlista-2020/rodlista-2020.pdf
Additional Metadata
| 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. |
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| Alternative Identifiers | 23c0a6c4-f1f4-4577-ac5c-98787c1a2d0c |
| https://www.gbif.se/ipt/resource?r=swedishredlist2020 |