Biowide Species data

Occurrence
Latest version published by Danish Biodiversity Information Facility on May 31, 2023 Danish Biodiversity Information Facility
Home:
http://www.biowide.dk
Publication date:
31 May 2023
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Description

The Biowide project (2014-2018) was a project aiming at collecting biodiversity data from 130 terrestrial sampling sites across Denmark. Data was collected with both classical means (observation and trapping) and by eDNA metabarcoding (sequencing of amplified marker genes. Data was also collected on environmental variables. Biowide (Biodiversity in Width and Depth) took place in collaboration between Århus Universiity (main project holder) and the two major Danish natural history museums and the University of Copenhagen, and was supported by the Villum Foundation. During the first two years of the project, a host of professionals and volunteers collected data on the environment from the 130 sample plots – on everything from soil moisture, temperature, nutrients, plant biomass, trees, dead wood, stone and ant hills, expanses of water and flowers. The major effort has been collecting information on plants, mosses, lichens, invertebrates and fungi that live in the surfaces. With the help of volunteers, it was attempted to map as much as possible. Sampling was stratified across the three gradients expected to have most importance for terrestrial biodiversity: fertility, humidity and disturbance. Landscape types as diverse as sand dunes, meadows, bogs, agricultural land and also forest plantations and Danish natural forest are included. The project and methods are described in Brunbjerg et al. (2017)

Data Records

The data in this occurrence 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 36,323 records.

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How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Brunbjerg A, Ejrnæs R (2023). Biowide Species data. Version 1.2. Danish Biodiversity Information Facility. Occurrence dataset. https://danbif.au.dk/ipt/resource?r=biowide_species_data&v=1.2

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The publisher and rights holder of this work is Danish Biodiversity Information Facility. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC 4.0) License.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: cd4eb3ec-0a18-42b4-bda4-155716ddd7b1.  Danish Biodiversity Information Facility publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by DanBIF - Danish Biodiversity Information Facility.

Keywords

Biodiversity; Denmark; Abiotic gradients; Occurrence

Contacts

Ane Brunbjerg
  • Metadata Provider ●
  • Originator ●
  • Point Of Contact
  • Postdoc
Aarhus University
  • Grenaavej 14
8410 Roende
Jylland
DK
Rasmus Ejrnæs
  • Originator ●
  • Point Of Contact
  • Senior researcher
Aarhus University
  • Grenaavej 14
8410 Roende
Jylland
DK
Isabel Calabuig
  • Distributor
  • Node manager, Data curator
DanBIF, Natural History Museum of Denmark
Copenhagen
DK

Geographic Coverage

Denmark

Bounding Coordinates South West [54.585, 7.646], North East [57.798, 12.964]

Taxonomic Coverage

Plants (vascular plants and bryophytes), fungi (lichens and macrofungi), gastropods, arthropods

Kingdom Plantae, Fungi
Phylum Arthropoda
Class Gastropoda

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 2014-05-01 / 2016-11-30

Sampling Methods

From 130 40x40m plots across Danish nature types species lists of plants, bryophytes, lichens, macrofungi, gastropods and arthropods were collected.

Study Extent Denmark
Quality Control N/A

Method step description:

  1. For details on methods see Brunbjerg et al. (2017)

Bibliographic Citations

  1. Brunbjerg A.K., Bruun H.H., Brøndum L., Classen A.T., Fog K., Frøslev T.G., Goldberg I., Hansen M.D.D., Høye T.T, Læssøe T, Newman G, Skipper L., Søchting U., Ejrnæs R. (2017) A systematic survey of regional multitaxon biodiversity: evaluating strategies and coverage. bioRxiv, 158030 https://doi.org/10.1101/158030

Additional Metadata

Alternative Identifiers cd4eb3ec-0a18-42b4-bda4-155716ddd7b1
https://danbif.au.dk/ipt/resource?r=biowide_species_data