Atlas Flora Danica

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Description

Atlas Flora Danica maps the wild Danish flora. Data collection took place from 1992 through 2012, and the voluntary monitoring work was carried out by members of the Danish Botanical Society. For this project, Denmark was divided into 2228 squares of 5 × 5 km. In all investigated squares, all plant species were recorded with a precision of 100 m (ca. 5.000 of the more than 1 mio. records have a precision from 150 til 5.000 m). About every other square in each 10 x 10 km square (total of 1330 squares) were surveyed and thereby obtaining good coverage of the whole country. The project gratefully received sponsoring from the Aage V. Jensen Nature Foundation. Atlas Flora Danica's purpose is to: 1) Show the Danish plant species’ current distribution and regional frequency, including decline or spread of species. Causes of these changes are discussed. 2) Examine the current status of red-listed, protected and rare plant species. 3) Publicize the Danish flora and the importance of protecting the plants and their habitats. Resource homepage: https://botaniskforening.dk/botanik/atlas-flora-danica/

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 933,208 records.

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:

Bruun Asmussen Lange C, Hermann J (2025). Atlas Flora Danica. Version 1.9. Botanical Society of Denmark. Occurrence dataset. https://ipt.danbif.dk/resource?r=atlasfloradanica-preciselocations&v=1.9

Rights

Researchers should respect the following rights statement:

The publisher and rights holder of this work is Botanical Society of Denmark. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 8df9af24-1fbd-4699-a545-9a2867ff25fe. Botanical Society of Denmark publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by DanBIF - Danish Biodiversity Information Facility.

Keywords

Occurrence; Plants; Atlas; Flora; Denmark; Occurrence

Contacts

Conny Bruun Asmussen Lange

Metadata Provider ●
Originator ●
Point Of Contact

Associate Professor

Dept. of Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of Copenhagen

Thorvaldsensvej 40

DK- 1871 Frederiksberg C

con@plen.ku.dk

http://plen.ku.dk/english/employees/?pure=en/persons/31138

Jakob Hermann

Originator

Botanical Society of Denmark

Sølvgade 83

DK-1307 Copenhagen K

jh@112c.dk

http://botaniskforening.dk/

Isabel Calabuig

Distributor

Node Manager & Data Curator

Natural History Museum of Denmark

Copenhagen

icalabuig@snm.ku.dk

http://danbif.dk/

https://orcid.org/https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5515-7900

Geographic Coverage

Denmark

Bounding Coordinates	South West [54.45, 7.18], North East [57.98, 15.93]

Taxonomic Coverage

plants

Order	ACORALES, ALISMATALES, APIALES, AQUIFOLIALES, ARECALES, ASPARAGALES, ASTERALES, BORAGINALES, BRASSICALES, BUXALES, CARYOPHYLLALES, CELASTRALES, CERATOPHYLLALES, COMMELINALES, CORNALES, CROSSOSOMATALES, CUCURBITALES, CUPRESSALES, DIOSCOREALES, DIPSACALES, EQUISETALES, ERICALES, FABALES, FAGALES, GARRYALES, GENTIANALES, GERANIALES, GINKGOALES, GUNNERALES, HYMENOPHYLLALES, ISOËTALES, LAMIALES, LAURALES, LILIALES, LYCOPODIALES, MAGNOLIALES, MALPIGHIALES, MALVALES, MYRTALES, NYMPHAEALES, OPHIOGLOSSALES, OSMUNDALES, OXALIDALES, PINALES, PIPERALES, POALES, POLYPODIALES, PROTEALES, RANUNCULALES, ROSALES, SALVINIALES, SANTALALES, SAPINDALES, SAXIFRAGALES, SELAGINELLALES, SOLANALES, VITALES, ZINGIBERALES, ZYGOPHYLLALES

Order

ACORALES, ALISMATALES, APIALES, AQUIFOLIALES, ARECALES, ASPARAGALES, ASTERALES, BORAGINALES, BRASSICALES, BUXALES, CARYOPHYLLALES, CELASTRALES, CERATOPHYLLALES, COMMELINALES, CORNALES, CROSSOSOMATALES, CUCURBITALES, CUPRESSALES, DIOSCOREALES, DIPSACALES, EQUISETALES, ERICALES, FABALES, FAGALES, GARRYALES, GENTIANALES, GERANIALES, GINKGOALES, GUNNERALES, HYMENOPHYLLALES, ISOËTALES, LAMIALES, LAURALES, LILIALES, LYCOPODIALES, MAGNOLIALES, MALPIGHIALES, MALVALES, MYRTALES, NYMPHAEALES, OPHIOGLOSSALES, OSMUNDALES, OXALIDALES, PINALES, PIPERALES, POALES, POLYPODIALES, PROTEALES, RANUNCULALES, ROSALES, SALVINIALES, SANTALALES, SAPINDALES, SAXIFRAGALES, SELAGINELLALES, SOLANALES, VITALES, ZINGIBERALES, ZYGOPHYLLALES

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date	1992-01-01 / 2012-12-31

Project Data

This dataset has been created from the data collected for the three-volume book "Atlas Flora Danica". Data collectied through the work of members of the Danish Botanical Society. Project coordinator: Per Hartvig Book editors: Per Hartvig and Peter Vestergaard.

Title	Atlas Flora Danica
Funding	The Aage V. Jensen Nature Foundation The Danish Botanical Society
Study Area Description	All of Denmark
Design Description	Surveyed in 5X5km squares.

The personnel involved in the project:

Per Hartvig

Editor ●
Originator

Peter Vestergaard

Editor

Conny Bruun Asmussen Lange

Distributor

Jakob Hermann

Custodian Steward

Bibliographic Citations

Hartvig, P. (2015). Atlas Flora Danica. Gyldendal, Copenhagen, Denmark ISBN 978-87-02-15299-9

Additional Metadata

Alternative Identifiers	8df9af24-1fbd-4699-a545-9a2867ff25fe
	https://ipt.danbif.dk/resource?r=atlasfloradanica-preciselocations