Jean Ichter, Olivier Gargominy‡, Marie-France Leccia§, Solène Robert‡, Laurent Poncet‡Corresponding author: Jean Ichter ( jean.ichter@gmail.com ) Corresponding author: Olivier Gargominy ( gargo@mnhn.fr ) Corresponding author: Marie-France Leccia ( marie-france.leccia@mercantour-parcnational.fr ) © Jean Ichter, Olivier Gargominy, Marie-France Leccia, Solène Robert, Laurent Poncet. This is an open access preprint distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Citation:
Ichter J, Gargominy O, Leccia M-F, Robert S, Poncet L (2022) The first large-scale All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory in Europe: description of the Mercantour National Park ATBI data sets. ARPHA Preprints. https://doi.org/10.3897/arphapreprints.e85910 |  |
An All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory (ATBI) is a comprehensive inventory of all species in a given territory. In 2007 the French Parc national du Mercantour and the Italian Parco Naturale Alpi Marittime started the first and most ambitious ATBI in Europe with more than 350 specialists and dozens of technicians and data managers involved.
The ATBI datasets from the Parc national du Mercantour in France are now publicly available. Between 2007 and 2020, 247 674 occurrences were recorded, checked and published in the INPN information system. All this information is available in open access in the GBIF web site. With 12 640 species registered, the ATBI is the most important inventory in France. This data paper provides an overview of main results and its contribution to the french National Inventory of Natural Heritage. It includes a list of 52 taxa new to science and 53 species new to France discovered thanks to the ATBI.