Vascular Plant Red List for Iceland
Latest version published by Icelandic Institute of Natural History on Jun 26, 2020
In Iceland, the first red list of vascular plants was compiled in 1996 (Náttúrufræðistofnun 1996), and then updated in 2008. The present edition of the Vascular Plant Red List for Iceland constitutes the second update of the list from 1996 and it is based on refined data on species distribution, new information on species biology and ecology as well as new observations made during monitoring activities by the Icelandic Institute of Natural History. The Vascular Plant Red List for Iceland reviews the status of plant species according to IUCN red listing guidelines. It was compiled in order to identify species that are threatened with extinction in Iceland and thus facilitate conservation efforts that should be undertaken to improve their status and prevent further decline. As a result of the present assessment one species was considered regionally extinct (RE), eight were classified as critically endangered (CR), seven as endangered(EN) and 31 as vulnerable (VU). According to our assessment ten species can be treated as near threatened (NT). Due to the lack of sufficient data ten species were classified in data deficient category (DD).
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 1,154 records. 1 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.
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- Distribution
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| Data as a DwC-A file | download 1,154 records in English (31 KB) - Update frequency: not planned |
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| Metadata as an EML file | download in English (7 KB) |
| Metadata as an RTF file | download in English (7 KB) |
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How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Wasowicz P, Heiðmarsson S (2019) A vascular plant red list for Iceland. Acta Botanica Islandica 16: 31-48. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.2875162
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The publisher and rights holder of this work is Icelandic Institute of Natural History. 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: 65a2fba2-be98-44b7-be8a-9bab6bf590b9. Icelandic Institute of Natural History publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF Iceland.
Keywords
Checklist; Inventorythematic
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Geographic Coverage
The present assessment is focused on mainland Iceland as well as all smaller islands (e.g. Grímsey, Hrísey etc.), island archipelagos (Vestmannaeyjar archipelago) and small islets (e.g. numerous small islets in Breiðafjörður) being in close proximity to Iceland and thus closely connected biogeographically.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [62.654, -25.225], North East [67.17, -12.217] |
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Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | 65a2fba2-be98-44b7-be8a-9bab6bf590b9 |
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| http://ipt.ni.is/ipt/resource?r=redlist2018 |