Activity report

generated January 2021 Sweden This report provides a series of summary charts, statistics and other details about the mobilization and use of open-access species data through the GBIF network, relating to users and participating institutions in Sweden. These metrics show status at the time of report generation, unless otherwise noted. Taken together, the elements of this report can help guide and measure progress toward the information needs for biodiversity research, as well as for national commitments on biodiversity and sustainable development.

▶ Access and usage

Researchers from Sweden

contributed to 23 peer-reviewed articles citing GBIF use during 2020 and a total of 147 articles since 2008

▶ Data availability in Sweden

Animalia Plantae Fungi Unknown 77,326,746 17,513,415 3,418,522 298,309 occurrences occurrences occurrences occurrences

Protozoa Bacteria Virus Chromista Archaea 19,391 177,580 177,580 64,421 2,479 occurrences occurrences occurrences occurrences occurrences

▶ Data mobilization

Institutions from Sweden

published 10,821,710 new occurrence records during 2020 out of a total of 268,835,604 occurrence records added globally to GBIF.org Number of records published by institutions in Sweden, categorized by kingdom 2 | 6

Access and usage Data downloads on GBIF.org from users in Sweden

Users from Sweden

made 689 download requests representing 0.3% of all downloads during 2020

Monthly downloads requested by users in Sweden

Recent peer-reviewed articles using GBIF-mediated data by co-authors based in Sweden

The GBIF Secretariat maintains and reports on an ongoing literature tracking programme, giving priority to substantive uses of GBIF- mediated data in peer-reviewed literature while identifying the countries or areas of the authors’ institutional affiliations. The citations below represent the five most recent journal articles with at least one co-author from Sweden.

Those interested in assisting the Secretariat in identifying additional peer-reviewed uses of GBIF-mediated data may forward relevant citations to [email protected].

Farooq, Azevedo, Soares et al. (2020) Mapping Africa’s biodiversity: More of the same is just not good enough. Systematic Biology. https://doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/syaa090

Morimoto, Pietras. (2020) Strong foraging preferences for Ribes alpinum (Saxifragales: Grossulariaceae) in the polyphagous caterpillars of Buff‐tip Phalera bucephala (: ). Ecology and Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.6981

Palacios-Abrantes, Reygondeau, Wabnitz et al. (2020) The transboundary nature of the world’s exploited marine species. Scientific Reports. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-74644-2

Yang, Nie, Liu et al. (2020) Chromosome-level genome assembly of a parent species of widely cultivated azaleas. Nature Communications. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18771-4

Sjöman, Watkins. (2020) What do we know about the origin of our urban See all research from this country or area trees? – a north European perspective. Urban Forestry & Urban gbif.org/country/SE/publications Greening. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ufug.2020.126879 3 | 6

Data availability Total data available for selected taxonomic groups in Sweden

Mammals Birds Bony fish Amphibians 264,452 66,051,920 3,755,984 65,963 occurrences occurrences occurrences occurrences

Insects Reptiles Molluscs 6,384,782 29,411 230,141 occurrences occurrences occurrences

Arachnids Flowering Gymnosper Ferns 167,202 plants ms 526,149 occurrences 15,378,218 260,761 occurrences occurrences occurrences

Mosses Sac fungi Basidiomycota 967,145 1,297,819 2,117,676 occurrences occurrences occurrences

Mammals = Class Mammalia = Class Insecta Flowering plants = Phylum Ferns = Phylum Pteridophyta Birds = Class Aves Reptiles = Class Reptilia Magnoliophyta Mosses = Phylum Bryophyta Bony fish = Superclass Molluscs = Phylum Mollusca Gymnosperms = Superclass Sac fungi = Phylum Ascomycota Osteichthyes Arachnids = Class Arachnida Gymnospermae Basidiomycota = Phylum Amphibians = Class Amphibia Basidiomycota

Change over time in records about biodiversity in Sweden

Occurrence records available about species occurring Species for which at least one occurrence record is in Sweden available in Sweden

WHY MIGHT THE AMOUNT OF MOBILIZED DATA SPECIES COUNTS represent the number of binomial scientific DECREASE? names for which GBIF has received data records, organized as far Datasets are sometimes removed by publishers, but more often as possible using synonyms recorded in key databases like the decreases in the number of records are due to the removal of Catalogue of Life duplicate records and datasets. 4 | 6

Most recent datasets from publishers in Sweden

Coastal birds in the Gulf of Bothnia (Kustfåglar i Bottniska Viken). Published by Department of Biology, Lund University https://doi.org/10.15468/37u448

Entomological Collection (GNM). Published by Gothenburg Natural History Museum (GNM) https://doi.org/10.15468/597vph

Swedish Bird Survey: Summer point count routes (Sommarpunktrutterna). Published by Department of Biology, Lund University https://doi.org/10.15468/2aajk9

List of sensitive species nationally protected In Sweden. Published by SLU Artdatabanken https://doi.org/10.15468/jwbtsb

The Swedish Red List 2020. Published by SLU Artdatabanken https://doi.org/10.15468/jhwkpq

Risk assessment of invasive taxa in Sweden. Published by SLU Artdatabanken https://doi.org/10.15468/yrayvw

Invasive species in Sweden. Published by SLU Artdatabanken https://doi.org/10.15468/7sk8se

See all datasets from this country or area: gbif.org/dataset/search?publishing_country=SE

Newest publishers from Sweden Occurrence records downloaded from GBIF.org, published by institutions in Sweden Station Linné

Department of Biology, Lund University

Umeå University

Ájtte Museum

Lund Botanical Museum (LD)

Number of occurrence records downloaded via See all publishers from this country or area GBIF.org published by institutions in Sweden gbif.org/publisher/search?country=SE 5 | 6

Data mobilization Data sharing with country or area of origin by national institutions in Sweden

Sweden

publishes data from 247 countries, territories and islands including 100,876,618 occurrences in 129 occurrence datasets Data sharing with country or area of origin

The chart above shows the number of records shared over time by publishers within Sweden, with separate colours for records about species occurring within undefined and those occurring elsewhere.

Top data contributors about biodiversity Top datasets contributing data about in Sweden Sweden Rank Country or area No. of occurrences Artportalen (Swedish Species Observation System). 79,602,691 occurrences in Sweden. (Last updated 22 1 Sweden 97,794,970 Jan 2021)

2 United Kingdom 238,670 Bird Ringing Centre in Sweden (NRM). 7,891,989 3 Netherlands 179,866 occurrences in Sweden. (Last updated 18 Sep 2020)

4 Norway 125,433 SLU Aqua Institute of Freshwater Research National register of survey test-fishing - NORS. 2,842,040 5 United States of America 117,410 occurrences in Sweden. (Last updated 28 Jan 2021) 6 Finland 80,983 EOD - eBird Observation Dataset. 1,116,692 7 Germany 65,095 occurrences in Sweden. (Last updated 30 Jun 2020)

8 France 42,412 Phanerogamic Botanical Collections (S). 769,953 9 Denmark 28,946 occurrences in Sweden. (Last updated 4 Nov 2020)

10 Estonia 23,270

Table 1. Ranking of countries or areas contributing data about Sweden

See all contributing countries and areas or datasets: gbif.org/country/SE/about 6 | 6

Sweden participates in the following projects coordinated by GBIF

International Living Atlases workshop Capacity Enhancement Support Programme, 2017–2018 This project will support and strengthen the growing international community of practice around open-source software developed by the Atlas of Living Australia. https://www.gbif.org/project/83337

European training hackathon on species checklists using GBIF data See all GBIF projects Capacity Enhancement Support Programme, 2014–2015 gbif.org/resource/search?contentType=project This regional collaboration supports a hackathon for European nodes, aiming to enhance their capacity to produce national checklists. https://www.gbif.org/project/82221