Vascular Plant Red List for Iceland

Pawel  Wasowicz1, Starri Heiðmarsson1, Pawel Wasowicz1, Pawel Wasowicz2

1 Icelandic Institute of Natural History, Borgir vid Nordurslod, 600, Akureyri, Iceland; 2 

Corresponding author(s): Pawel  Wasowicz (pawel@ni.is)Starri Heiðmarsson (starri@ni.is)

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Resource Citation

Wasowicz P, Heiðmarsson S (2019) A vascular plant red list for Iceland. Acta Botanica Islandica 16: 31-48. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.2875162 http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2875162

Abstract

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).  

Keywords: Checklist, Inventorythematic

Data published through GBIF: http://ipt.ni.is/ipt/resource?r=redlist2018

Spatial coverage

General spatial 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.

Coordinates: 62°39'14.4''N and 67°10'12''N Latitude; 25°13'30''W and 12°13'1.2''W Longitude 

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive Vascular Plant Red List for Iceland
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: http://ipt.ni.is/ipt/archive.do?r=redlist2018
Publication date of data: 2020-06-26
Language: English
Licences of use: Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2020-05-27
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