The Swedish Red List 2020

doi:10.15468/jhwkpq

The Swedish Red List 2020

Citation

SLU Artdatabanken (2024). The Swedish Red List 2020. Version 1.8. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/jhwkpq accessed via GBIF.org on 2025-04-23.

Description

The Swedish Red List is produced by the Swedish Species Information Centre at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU Artdatabanken). The Swedish Red List 2020, published on April 22 2020, is the fifth Swedish Red List based on the IUCN Red List Criteria.

The Swedish Red List is a compilation of the extinction risk of individual species and provides an overview of the status of Swedish species. Experts assess a sample of all species for which knowledge is considered sufficient. Assessments are based on criteria developed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), which include estimates of population size, abundance, distribution and trends, and include past, present and future changes, resulting in the species being placed in a particular category.

Further reading, species-specific information and results are available at www.artdatabanken.se/rodlistning.

Purpose

The Red List has been developed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) to evaluate the health of the world’s biodiversity (www.iucnredlist.org). The Swedish Red List has been revised every fifth year based on the IUCN Red List Criteria, and describes the relative extinction risk of the evaluated species in Sweden. The Red List can be viewed as an indication of the status of the evaluated Swedish species, and is an important tool for identifying species and actions to be targeted in nature conservation.

Sampling Description

Study Extent

The Swedish red list assesses species that are resident and reproducing in Sweden. Experts assess a sample of all species for which knowledge is considered sufficient. Assessmenta are made every fifth year, with the current Swedish red list published 2020 and being valid until publication of the next Swedish red list in 2026.

Sampling

Assessments of the extinction risk of individual species are based on criteria developed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), which include estimates of population size, abundance, distribution and trends, and include past, present and future changes. Experts assess a sample of all species for which knowledge is considered sufficient. More information is available at www.artdatabanken.se/rodlistning and https://www.iucnredlist.org/.

Quality Control

Before finalising results, a public review was conducted.

Method steps

The Swedish Red List 2020 is based on the international IUCN Red List Criteria (IUCN 2012). The evaluations were made in collaboration with more than 100 experts, subdivided into 14 committees treating different organism groups.
Information on occurrence, distribution and trends was compiled from environmental monitoring, reports by the public in Artportalen (www.artportalen.se), expert knowledge, research data, museum collections and literature.
Detailed information on population size and trends was only available for a restricted number of species, whereas in most cases estimates were calculated or inferred based on ecological knowledge combined with data on habitat status.
Our knowledge of many organism groups is still very poor, and many species (e.g. marine invertebrates) are therefore categorized as Data Deficient (DD). Others are not evaluated (NE) – e.g. many invertebrates and fungi – or regarded as not applicable (NA).

Taxonomic Coverages

Species belonging to the kingdoms Bacteria, Animalia, Chromista, Fungi, Plantae and Protozoa.

Bacteria
common name: Bacteria rank: kingdom
Animalia
common name: Animals rank: kingdom
Chromista
common name: Chromists rank: kingdom
Fungi
common name: Fungi rank: kingdom
Plantae
common name: Plants rank: kingdom
Protozoa
common name: Protozoans rank: kingdom

Geographic Coverages

The country of Sweden including the area of Sweden’s Economic Zone (EEZ).

Bibliographic Citations

SLU Artdatabanken (2020). Rödlistade arter i Sverige 2020. Uppsala: SLU Artdatabanken. https://www.artdatabanken.se/globalassets/ew/subw/artd/6-publikationer/31.-rodlista-2020/rodlista-2020.pdf -

Contacts

originator
SLU Swedish Species Information Centre
Uppsala
SE
email: webservices@artdatabanken.se
homepage: https://www.artdatabanken.se/en/

metadata author
SLU Swedish Species Information Centre
Uppsala
SE
email: artfakta@artdatabanken.se
homepage: https://www.artdatabanken.se/en/

administrative point of contact
SLU Swedish Species Information Centre
Uppsala
SE
email: rodlista@slu.se
homepage: https://www.artdatabanken.se/en/