Alisma wahlenbergii (VU)
Short description
Observations of Alisma wahlenbergii were collected from the Baltic Sea area for HELCOM Red List species list. The HELCOM Red List of Baltic Sea species in danger of becoming extinct (2013) is the first threat assessment for Baltic Sea species that covers all marine mammals, fish, birds, macrophytes (aquatic plants), and benthic invertebrates, and follows the Red List criteria of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Almost 2800 species were considered in the Red List assessment and about 1750 were evaluated according to the IUCN Red List criteria. Alisma wahlenbergii has been placed to the Red List category of Vulnerable (VU) species. Dataset for download contains spatial grid of the Baltic Sea. Distribution of the species can be found in corresponding name column. Values are coded: 0 = no observations 1 = present before year 1995 or in 1995 2 = present after year 1995 3 = present before and after year 1995
Point of contact
HELCOM Secretariat
data@helcom.fi
Spatial extent
['0.579301', '50.560882', '46.304946', '72.66441']
Type
dataset
Metadata information
Identifier
Keywords
Species distribution ; GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ;

red list ; macrophyte ; distribution ; GEMET ;

MADS ;

Resource provider(s)
HELCOM Secretariat
data@helcom.fi

Lineage
The records of the species are compiled from the Finnish database of threatened species (Hertta), Swedish Species Gateway (www.artportalen.se), Martinsson (1994) and Russian monitoring data and literature. The occurrences in the Quark, the Finnish part of the Gulf of Finland and on the coast of central Sweden are all regarded extinct. The species occurs also in lakes of central Sweden (occurrences not shown on the map). Observation data downloaded from the Finnish Environment Institute on 11 December 2012 and from Artportalen on 14 January 2013