Taxon Expeditions soil invertebrate data from community science inventories of urban greenspaces in Amsterdam

Occurrence
Version 1.3 published by Taxon Expeditions on Apr 9, 2025 Taxon Expeditions
Publication date:
9 April 2025
Published by:
Taxon Expeditions
License:
CC0 1.0

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Description

Since 2019, Taxon Expeditions has organized 'urban expeditions' in greenspaces in Amsterdam, the aim of which has been to form teams of both community scientists from the neighbourhood and professional biodiversity experts and to carry out high-quality explorations of invertebrates of urban greenspaces. Each 'expedition' entailed training for the community scientists in field methods for biodiversity sampling and techniques for preserving, studying, and identifying invertebrates. Each expedition also yielded large numbers of specimens that were worked up into permanent collection specimens and identified by the participating experts. The results were published in reports and papers, partly authored with the community scientists. We now have a rich baseline of invertebrates from these greenspaces, which reveal important ecological patterns. This digitization of the data, with particular emphasis on the soil invertebrates, provides a baseline from these greenspaces.

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How to cite

Please be aware, this is an old version of the dataset.  Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Cooper L, de Voogd M (2025). Taxon Expeditions soil invertebrate data from community science inventories of urban greenspaces in Amsterdam. Version 1.3. Taxon Expeditions. Occurrence dataset. https://ipt.nlbif.nl/resource?r=taxon_expeditions_amsterdam&v=1.3

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The publisher and rights holder of this work is Taxon Expeditions. 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: abf03113-5dd8-4bbe-9ab0-0278970b229c.  Taxon Expeditions publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Netherlands Biodiversity Information Facility.

Keywords

Occurrence; Specimen

Contacts

Lilian Cooper
  • Originator
  • Project technician
Taxon Foundation
  • Haagweg 4
2311AA Leiden
NL
Maaike de Voogd
  • Metadata Provider
  • Project technician
Taxon Foundation
  • Haagweg 4
2311AA Leiden
NL
Menno Schilthuizen
  • Point Of Contact
  • Chair
Taxon Foundation
  • Rembrandtstraat 20
2311VW Leiden
NL

Geographic Coverage

Greater Amsterdam

Bounding Coordinates South West [52.298, 4.682], North East [52.419, 5]

Taxonomic Coverage

No Description available

Kingdom Animalia

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 2019-01-01 / 2024-09-01

Project Data

No Description available

Title Taxon Expeditions community science inventories of urban greenspaces in Amsterdam
Project Award Digitization of soil invertebrate data from community science inventories of urban greenspaces in Amsterdam

Netherlands Biodiversity Information Facility (NLBIF)
nlbif2023.009
https://www.nlbif.nl/digitization-of-soil-invertebrate-data-from-community-science-inventories-of-urban-greenspaces-in-amsterdam/

The personnel involved in the project:

Menno Schilthuizen

Sampling Methods

In most greenspaces, we applied a range of sampling techniques, including malaise trapping, leaf litter sieving with Winkler extraction, pitfall trapping, baited pitfall trapping, sweepnetting, butterfly netting, light trapping, and manual collecting.

Study Extent Greenspaces in Greater Amsterdam

Method step description:

  1. Collected specimens were preserved either in 70% ethanol or ethyl acetate vapour, mounted and/or dissected using the techniques appropriate for the respective taxon, and identified, usually by experts.

Collection Data

Collection Name Taxon Expeditions
Specimen preservation methods Alcohol,  Dried,  Mounted,  Pinned

Additional Metadata

Acknowledgements Taxon Expeditions (data collection), Taxon Foundation (data digitization), NLBIF (funding data digitization)
Alternative Identifiers abf03113-5dd8-4bbe-9ab0-0278970b229c
https://ipt.nlbif.nl/resource?r=taxon_expeditions_amsterdam