The Swedish Taxonomy Initiative

ArtDatabanken (The Swedish Species Information Centre) was 2001 commissioned by the government to develop keys for the identification of all Swedish multicellular organisms, approximately 50 000 species. This project, designed to run for 20 years, will result in a considerable improvement of the infrastructure of Swedish taxonomy.

One part of the project aims to produce a series of identification handbooks with keys in Swedish to the Swedish plant and animal species – “The Encyclopedia of the Swedish Flora and Fauna”.