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Fauna Europaea
Fauna Europaea is a database of the scientific names and distribution of all living multicellular European land and fresh-water animals. It serves as a standard taxonomic source for animal taxonomy within the Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure (PESI). As of June 2020[update], Fauna Europaea reported that their database contained 235,708 taxon names and 173,654 species names.
Its construction was initially funded by the European Commission (2000–2004). The project was co-ordinated by the University of Amsterdam which launched the first version in 2004. The Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin took over the hosting of the web portal in 2013, and a new web portal was launched in 2015.
Fauna Europaea is an authoritative, expert-curated database that provides taxonomic names and national-level distributional information for all known multicellular, extant terrestrial and freshwater animals of Europe (sensu Fauna Europaea: Europe east to the Ural Mountains, excluding the Caucasus). The resource was created as a pan-European effort to deliver a standard taxonomic backbone for research, conservation, policy and biodiversity informatics services across Europe.
The Fauna Europaea project originated as a pan-European research initiative funded by the European Commission under the Fifth Framework Programme. The core project phase (early 2000s) focused on compiling and validating a comprehensive electronic index of scientific names and country-level distributions for Europe's terrestrial and freshwater fauna. The initial phase assembled technical infrastructure, editorial networks and the first validated dataset snapshots.
The database was published as an online service in the mid-2000s. Subsequent years saw continued curation by a distributed network of taxonomic experts, technical improvements to the data model and services, and migration of hosting to institutional partners. Integration into broader European biodiversity infrastructure initiatives has helped maintain its relevance and interoperability with other resources.
Fauna Europaea aims to document all extant multicellular, non-marine animal species that occur in the defined European area (Europe east to the Ural Mountains, excluding the Caucasus). The database records validated scientific names, synonymy, authorship, taxonomic hierarchy and country-level presence/absence for taxa.
Over time the database has grown to include a very large number of taxon names and accepted species-level names. The project has relied on hundreds of contributing specialists to assemble group-level checklists and to apply expert validation to names and distributions.
The Fauna Europaea data model captures scientific names, their position in a taxonomic hierarchy, authorship details, synonym lists and country-level occurrence records. Contributors prepare datasets for their taxonomic groups and submit them for validation; named specialists are responsible for maintaining and validating group-level content.
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Fauna Europaea
Fauna Europaea is a database of the scientific names and distribution of all living multicellular European land and fresh-water animals. It serves as a standard taxonomic source for animal taxonomy within the Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure (PESI). As of June 2020[update], Fauna Europaea reported that their database contained 235,708 taxon names and 173,654 species names.
Its construction was initially funded by the European Commission (2000–2004). The project was co-ordinated by the University of Amsterdam which launched the first version in 2004. The Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin took over the hosting of the web portal in 2013, and a new web portal was launched in 2015.
Fauna Europaea is an authoritative, expert-curated database that provides taxonomic names and national-level distributional information for all known multicellular, extant terrestrial and freshwater animals of Europe (sensu Fauna Europaea: Europe east to the Ural Mountains, excluding the Caucasus). The resource was created as a pan-European effort to deliver a standard taxonomic backbone for research, conservation, policy and biodiversity informatics services across Europe.
The Fauna Europaea project originated as a pan-European research initiative funded by the European Commission under the Fifth Framework Programme. The core project phase (early 2000s) focused on compiling and validating a comprehensive electronic index of scientific names and country-level distributions for Europe's terrestrial and freshwater fauna. The initial phase assembled technical infrastructure, editorial networks and the first validated dataset snapshots.
The database was published as an online service in the mid-2000s. Subsequent years saw continued curation by a distributed network of taxonomic experts, technical improvements to the data model and services, and migration of hosting to institutional partners. Integration into broader European biodiversity infrastructure initiatives has helped maintain its relevance and interoperability with other resources.
Fauna Europaea aims to document all extant multicellular, non-marine animal species that occur in the defined European area (Europe east to the Ural Mountains, excluding the Caucasus). The database records validated scientific names, synonymy, authorship, taxonomic hierarchy and country-level presence/absence for taxa.
Over time the database has grown to include a very large number of taxon names and accepted species-level names. The project has relied on hundreds of contributing specialists to assemble group-level checklists and to apply expert validation to names and distributions.
The Fauna Europaea data model captures scientific names, their position in a taxonomic hierarchy, authorship details, synonym lists and country-level occurrence records. Contributors prepare datasets for their taxonomic groups and submit them for validation; named specialists are responsible for maintaining and validating group-level content.