Summer Mammal Study Camps from the Dutch Mammal Society

Occurrence
Latest version published by Field Study Group of the Dutch Mammal Society on Sept 23, 2025 Field Study Group of the Dutch Mammal Society
Publication date:
23 September 2025
License:
CC0 1.0

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Description

The Field Study Group is a branch of the Dutch Mammal Society (Zoogdiervereniging) is focused on field studies and aims to keep up the knowledge on mammal identification and mammal survey techniques up to date, as well as to exchange and spread this knowledge to its members and others.

The Field Study Group carryes out yearly a mammal study camp in abroad and in the Netherlands. These camps aim at collecting information on the occurrence of mammal species in the targeted areas, increasing this way the information on species distribution, checking new research methods, exchanging this experience and information with the local partners.

The Summer Mammal Study Camps aim at inventory of the biodiversity with focus on mammals in different parts of Europe and are realised in partnership with local research and nature conservation organisations. 

The dataset holds observations made in Bulgaria, Montenegro and Switzerland

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 3,796 records.

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Rights

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The publisher and rights holder of this work is Field Study Group of the Dutch Mammal Society. 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: 41cb0352-7afd-467f-8d1f-49bf69919463.  Field Study Group of the Dutch Mammal Society publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Netherlands Biodiversity Information Facility.

Keywords

Occurrence

Contacts

Svetlana Miteva
  • Metadata Provider
  • Originator
  • Point Of Contact
The Habitat Foundation
Dimitri Brosens
  • Originator
Research Institute for Nature and Forest

Geographic Coverage

N/A

Bounding Coordinates South West [41.537, 6.019], North East [46.492, 24.701]

Taxonomic Coverage

No Description available

Kingdom Plantae, Animalia

Project Data

This data set is published as part of the project of The Habitat Foundation “The biodiversity of the Balkans in GBIF” (nlbif2022.015)

Title Project of The Habitat Foundation: “The biodiversity of the Balkans in GBIF”
Identifier nlbif2022.015
Funding The data set was published with the financial support of NLBIF - Naturalis Biodiversity Center.
Study Area Description The data set contains records of species in Montenegro, Bulgaria and Switzerland.

The personnel involved in the project:

Svetlana Miteva

Sampling Methods

No Description available

Method step description:

  1. Data was collected during Field Study Camps from the Dutch Mammal Society
  2. An export van the database was translated to DwC through an R script (example here: https://github.com/DimEvil/data-publication-habitat-foundation/blob/main/datasets/DAtaZokaBulgaria/src/dwc_mapping.Rmd)
  3. data was published to GBIF

Additional Metadata

The data is collected by Pellumb Gjini, Bledi Hoxha, Qerim Facja, Fatmir Brazdha, Ornela Poçi, Jan Wondergem, Hans Bekker, Evelien Spijkman, Frank van der Knaap, Jan Boshamer, Eva Henrard, Kees Mosterd, Suzanne Boon, Marco Snijder, David de Wit, Bernd-Jan Bulsink, Ajola Mesiti, Albin Hunia, Laura Gaeta, Eduard Goossens, Bojana Kullolli, Bajram Kullolli, Spartak Koci, Mirjan Topi, Carola van den Tempel, Dennis Wansink, Lily Vercruijsse, Carlijn Brands, Rejland Hasa, Genci Kadilli, Svetlana Miteva, Albert Kaleci, Adrie van Heerden, Odile Schmidt, Bart Noort, Mihailo Jovicevic, Jana Ikovic, Masa Vucinic, Zoran Radonjic, Lars Soerink, Marina Djurovic, Jan Buys, Vernes Zagora, Klarissa Nienhuys, Alfred van Zwam, Bennie Harmsen, Carolien van de Graaf, Nedko Nedyalkov, Jaap van Wingerde, Lia Koster, Jan Piet Bekker, Stoian Goranov, Floris Klein, Anne Nagel, Ineke Kroes, Slaveia Stoycheva, Ognian Todorov.

Acknowledgements We would like to thank all the participants of the Summer Camps for their valuable observations and work.
Alternative Identifiers 41cb0352-7afd-467f-8d1f-49bf69919463
https://ipt.nlbif.nl/resource?r=dms-summer-mammal-study-camps