EU Habitat directive species monitoring MECDD, Recorder-Lux database

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Description

Article 17 requires Member States to report every six years about the progress made with the implementation of the Habitats Directive. As the main objective of the directive is on maintaining and restoring a favourable conservation status for habitat types & species of community interest, monitoring & reporting under Article 17 is focusing on capturing the status and trends of these habitat types and species. Monitoring of conservation status is an obligation arising from Article 11 of the Habitats Directive for all habitats (as listed in Annex I) and species (as listed in Annex II, IV and V) of Community interest. Text taken from http://ec.europa.eu/environment/nature/knowledge/rep_habitats/index_en.html The Ministry of the Environment, Climate and Sustainable Development (MECDD) entrusted the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST) with the charge of elaborating the scheme to document the changing state of biodiversity in the wider countryside, using vascular plants, freshwater invertebrates, butterflies, breeding birds and bats as indicator species groups.

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 13,929 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.

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How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Ministry of the Environment, Climate and Sustainable Development, National Museum of Natural History Luxembourg (2024). EU Habitat directive species monitoring MECDD, Recorder-Lux database. Version 1.5. Musée national d'histoire naturelle Luxembourg. Occurrence dataset. https://gbif-staging.mnhn.lu/ipt/resource?r=gbif_eu_hd_species_mecdd&v=1.5

Rights

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To the extent possible under law, the publisher has waived all rights to these data and has dedicated them to the Public Domain (CC0 1.0). Users may copy, modify, distribute and use the work, including for commercial purposes, without restriction.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: ca3930a6-492f-4822-b25f-fce0c06325b1. Musée national d'histoire naturelle Luxembourg publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF Luxembourg.