File uploads: We have fixed an issue which caused file uploads to fail. We apologise for the inconvenience it may have caused.

There is a newer version of the record available.

Published October 7, 2024 | Version 1.0
Dataset Open

Historical Animal Observation Records by Bavarian Forestry Offices (1845)

  • 1. ROR icon University of Passau
  • 2. ROR icon Freie Universität Berlin
  • 3. ROR icon Research Institute for Farm Animal Biology (FBN)
  • 4. Generaldirektion der Staatlichen Archive Bayerns
  • 5. ROR icon German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research
  • 6. ROR icon Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
  • 7. ROR icon Friedrich Schiller University Jena

Description

In 1845, under the scientific direction of Andreas Wagner, the Bavarian government recorded the occurrence of 44 selected vertebrate species across the entire country. To this end, Wagner had a survey questionnaire sent to all 119 forestry offices in the state. The foresters' responses were now systematically recorded and analyzed for the first time. This data set represents the result of this survey. Among other things, it contains 5,464 geo-coded animal observation data.

The data is the result of an interdisciplinary collaboration between scientists from the Chair of Computational Humanities at the University of Passau, the Directorate General of the Bavarian State Archives Munich, the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, the Center for Biodiversity Informatics and Collection Data Integration at the Botanical Garden Berlin, and the NFDI4Biodiversity consortium.

Files

AOD_Datatable_Documentation.pdf

Files (5.2 MB)

Name Size Download all
md5:548f6a1d59712b8261fc8f66006def09
1.2 MB Preview Download
md5:c565d73a80d8fb53943bc9b54f7840fa
2.5 kB Preview Download
md5:0fb9e6b462b2a38296abba5f302726df
51.2 kB Preview Download
md5:c00748d603d0f1fff8622899e56e3b2b
2.7 MB Preview Download
md5:0f61a718b48cc86d5d6017ac75a38b5c
9.2 kB Preview Download
md5:41b5e703dcdd1f6075ec6d9f14b0bd2e
17.8 kB Preview Download
md5:153b1bc46de2b4dc1af993b8afbc6419
1.1 MB Preview Download
md5:e1e98608b88398f78af24618d7dc19f9
5.0 kB Download
md5:fe8dcfd8a29a63654069ca4389f54001
88.6 kB Preview Download

Additional details

Related works

Is supplemented by
Poster: 10.5281/zenodo.11183498 (DOI)

Dates

Created
2024-10-12

References

  • Rehbein, Malte; Engel, Thore; Matheisen, Giada; Hörl, Lina; Haas, Bettina; Lambsdorff, Felix; Perschl, Tobias (2024): Mobilisation of historical animal observation data - the Bavarian survey of 1845. Poster. All Hands Conference NFDI4Biodiversity.