species distribution data: dataset holding species/taxa occurrence data (e.g. as coordinates or shape files)
species (taxonomic group) per site dataset including environmental information: dataset holding information on species/taxa distribution (mainly collected from sampling activities) with information on environmental/physico-chemical characteristics of the investigated sites
biological or ecological traits/information dataset: dataset holding general ecological and/or biological characteristics of different species/taxa (no occurrence data included)
species/taxa dataset (e.g. red list dataset): other type of datasets holding any kind of species/taxa list
environmental characteristics dataset: dataset holding solely environment related data (no species/taxa data included)
climatic information dataset: dataset holding solely climate related data (no species/taxa data included)
protected area dataset: dataset holding any information related to the characterisation of protected areas
museum collection data (historical data): dataset holding historical species/taxa data
palaeoecological dataset: dataset holding palaeoecological species/taxa data
data evaluation dataset ("results" dataset): dataset solely holding outputs resulting from species/taxa evaluations (e.g. metrics calculation)
data centre: data portal or data repository centralising data from several sources
others: please specify any other type of dataset in the provided "specify" field