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Artportalen (The Swedish Species Observation System)

June 2025

Metadata

Publisher
SLU Swedish Species Information Centre
Funding agency
The Swedish Environmental Protection Agency
Keywords
citizen science, surveys, observations, sightings, migration monitoring, EuroBirdwatch, biogeographical monitoring, bioblitz
Data citation

The entire Artportalen
SLU Artdatabanken (year of publication). Artportalen. https://www.artportalen.se [access date]

Example specific observation:
SLU Artdatabanken (2024). Artportalen: Detailed find information. https://www.artportalen.se/Sighting/110157322 [2024-08-14]

Frequency of update
Daily
Limitations with regard to usage

Protected observations are managed either by diffusion or contractual authorisation with access to different protection levels.

Media may not be used without the explicit consent of the copyright holder.

Subject area
  • Biology
Habitat type
  • Mountainous landscapes
  • Coast and sea
  • Agricultural landscapes
  • Lakes and streams
  • Forest
  • Wetlands
  • Urban environments
Species group
  • Algae
  • Microorganisms
  • Mammals
  • Fish
  • Birds
  • Amphibians and reptiles
  • Invertebrates
  • Vascular plants
  • Lichens
  • Mosses
  • Fungi
Swedish environmental objectives
  • Ett rikt växt - och djurliv

Artportalen, The Swedish species observation system, is a system for recording and searching species observations in Sweden. There are a total of more than 100 million observations of various kinds of organisms in the Artportalen database. Authorities, researchers, nature conservationists and private persons both report observations and use the data, which are openly available at artportalen.se.

Species observations can be anything from occasional off-the-cuff findings and simple garden observations to results from systematically implemented inventories and research projects, which also include survey data (presence-absence information). Data from environmental monitoring are also ubiquitous in Artportalen, such as the results from large-scale inventories, local investigations and surveys of invasive alien species.

Much of the data in Artportalen are quality assured through expert verification of both species identification and place.

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