Occurrence dataset Registered April 03, 2007
Danish Mycological Society, fungal records database
Description
Database containing observations of fungi and Mycetozoa mainly from Denmark. New observations are continuously added through the registration portal http://svampe.databasen.org, which was developed as part of the "Danmarks Svampeatlas" project. The project is a collaboration between the Natural History Museum of Denmark and Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, the Danish Mycological Society and MycoKey. The project received generous financial support from Aage V. Jensen Naturfond. The aim of Svampeatlas is to compile all Basidiomycota from Denmark and to increase the knowledge of fungal distribution and ecology in Denmark, by making this information publicly available. With more than 400 active users contributing to the project, there has been more than 325.000 finds with a total of about 2.500 species of Basidiomycota. In addition a similar number of older finds has been imported from various published sources, persona and project databases.
Geographic scope
- Description
EURO DK
- Latitude
- From 54.5 to 57.7
- Longitude
- From 7.2 to 12.9
Temporal scope
- range
- September 15, 1762 - November 28, 2022
Taxonomic scope
- Description
Fungi and mycetozoa
- Coverage
- Fungi
MycetozoaSlime moulds
Methodology
- Sampling
Observations mainly of fruit bodies done by amateur mycologists, recorded with very variable geographical precision. As of 2016 geolocation have been possible with both build-in GPS in mobile devices, EXIF data from geolocated photos and web map services using various topographical and satelite layers.
From 2006-2015 Google Maps was used as a background map source and observation precision has been defined by the zoom level chosen by the data provider.- Study extent
Europe
- Quality control
Validation has been intensive by the PI's in the period 2009-2014 and has involved microscopical examination of thousands of specimens. Older and newer data have mainly been validated based on photos and knowledge of the skills of the data providers
- Method steps
Observations mainly of fruit bodies done by amateur mycologists, recorded with very variable geographical precision. As of 2016 geolocation have been possible with both build-in GPS in mobile devices, EXIF data from geolocated photos and web map services using various topographical and satelite layers.
From 2006-2015 Google Maps was used as a background map source and observation precision has been defined by the zoom level chosen by the data provider.
Metrics
Bibliography
- Google ScholarDanish Mycological Society (2022). Fungal records database. >500.000 records, contributed by Frøslev, T., Heilmann-Clausen, J., Jeppesen, T.S., Lange, C., Læssøe, T., Petersen, JH., Vesterholt, J.
Contacts
- Organization
- Natural History Museum of Denmark
- Position
- PostDoc
- Address
- Natural History Museum of Denmark, Øster Voldgade 5-7
- Roles
- Originator
Principal investigator - User ID
- Organization
- Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate
- Position
- Associate Professor
- Address
- Natural History Museum of Denmark, Universitetsparken 15
- Roles
- Originator
Metadata author
Administrative point of contact - Phone
- Organization
- Natural History Museum of Denmark
- Position
- Collection staff
- Address
- Ø. Voldgade 5-7, 1353 København K
- Roles
- Originator
Principal investigator - Phone
- Organization
- National History Museum of Denmark
- Position
- Associate Professor
- Address
- Natural History Museum of Denmark, Universitetsparken 15
- Roles
- Originator
Principal investigator - User ID
- Organization
- Independent
- Position
- Independent biologist
- Address
- Nøruplundvej 2, Tirstrup
- Roles
- Originator
Principal investigator
- Organization
- Department of Biology, Ecology and Evolution
- Position
- Associate Professor
- Address
- Natural History Museum of Denmark, Universitetsparken 15
- Roles
- Originator
- Organization
- Natural History Museum of Denmark
- Position
- Software Architect
- Address
- Universitetsparken 15
- Roles
- Originator
Metadata author
Principal investigator - User ID
Jan Vesterholt
Originator- Organization
- Danish Mycological Society
- Roles
- Originator
GBIF registration
- Registration date
- April 03, 2007
- Metadata last modified
- March 19, 2025
- Publication date
- January 27, 2025
- Hosted by
- Danish Mycological Society
- Installation
- Danish Mycological Society Data Repository
- Endpoints
- Darwin Core Archive
- Preferred identifier
- 10.15468/zn159h
- Alternative identifiers