Swiss National Bryophyte Databank

Occurrence
Latest version published by Swiss National Biodiversity Data and Information Centres – infospecies.ch on Mar 10, 2025 Swiss National Biodiversity Data and Information Centres – infospecies.ch

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Description

This dataset is maintained by Swissbryophytes (National Data- and Information Center of Swiss Bryophytes, formerly "National Inventory of Swiss bryophytes", NISM). We are a member of InfoSpecies. The dataset includes records of Bryophytes (Anthocerotophyta, Bryophyta, Marchantiophyta) from Switzerland and the adjacent area. Data sources include official herbaria and private collections from a large network of volunteer collaborators, inventories (National Inventory of Swiss bryophytes NISM, Red List strategy), national monitoring projects (Biodiversity Monitoring Switzerland BDM, Monitoring the Effectiveness of Habitat Conservation in Switzerland WBS), environmental impact studies, academic work and literature. The records are in general based on specimens. The period covered by the data extends from 1800 to the present day.

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 241,258 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

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Rights

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The publisher and rights holder of this work is Swiss National Biodiversity Data and Information Centres – infospecies.ch. 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: 96c5c442-f762-11e1-a439-00145eb45e9a.  Swiss National Biodiversity Data and Information Centres – infospecies.ch publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF Switzerland.

Keywords

Occurrence; Occurrence

Contacts

Heike Hofmann
  • Metadata Provider
  • Originator
Swissbryophytes
Zollikerstrasse 107
CH-8008 Zürich
CH
Ariane Cailliau
  • Originator
Swissbryophytes
Zollikerstrasse 107
CH-8008 Zürich
CH
Ann-Michelle Hartwig
  • Originator
  • Point Of Contact
Swissbryophytes
Zollikerstrasse 107
CH-8008 Zürich
CH

Geographic Coverage

Switzerland and adjacent area

Bounding Coordinates South West [45.818, 5.956], North East [47.808, 10.492]

Taxonomic Coverage

Bryophytes, Bryophyta

Phylum Anthocerotophyta, Bryophyta, Marchantiophyta

Bibliographic Citations

  1. Swissbryophytes 2004-2024. Online-Atlas der Schweizer Moose. www.swissbryophytes.ch

Additional Metadata

Alternative Identifiers 96c5c442-f762-11e1-a439-00145eb45e9a
https://ipt.gbif.ch/resource?r=nism-bryo