- Nationalnyckeln till Sveriges flora och fauna
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Nationalnyckeln till Sveriges flora och fauna (Swedish for "National Key to Sweden's Flora and Fauna") is a set of books, the first volume of which, Fjärilar: Dagfjärilar (Butterflies, 140 species), appeared on 25 April 2005.[1] The publishing plan comprises 100,000 illustrations spread over more than 100 volumes, to appear over a period of 20 years, listing and providing popular scientific descriptions of all species of plants (flora) and animals (fauna) in Sweden. So large a work has never been published in the history of Swedish literature.
Nationalnyckeln is a popular scientific account produced on contract from the Swedish parliament by the Swedish Species Information Centre (ArtDatabanken) at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) in Uppsala.
References
- ^ "Nationalnyckeln till Sveriges flora och fauna" (in Swedish). Nationalencyklopedin. http://www.ne.se/nationalnyckeln-till-sveriges-flora-och-fauna. Retrieved 27 August 2010.
External links
- Nationalnyckeln, official website
- ArtDatabanken, official website
Categories:- Swedish encyclopedias
- Biology books
- Encyclopedias on science and mathematics
- Science book stubs
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