Stichting Egelopvang Midden Nederland

Data Records

The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 5,587 records.

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The publisher and rights holder of this work is Netherlands Biodiversity Information Facility (NLBIF). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC 4.0) License.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: b1e43d17-588c-4a37-91c6-661c8bedebcd.  Netherlands Biodiversity Information Facility (NLBIF) publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Netherlands Biodiversity Information Facility.

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Geographic Coverage

The dataset covers the region served by Stichting Egelopvang Midden Nederland in the province of North Holland, the Netherlands. Records primarily originate from Huizen and surrounding municipalities, as well as parts of neighbouring provinces such as Utrecht and Flevoland, where rescued European hedgehogs (Erinaceus europaeus) were found and subsequently admitted to the wildlife rehabilitation centre. The geographic coverage includes urban, suburban, and rural habitats within the wider central Netherlands region.

Taxonomic Coverage

The dataset contains records of the European hedgehog (Erinaceus europaeus), a mammal belonging to the order Eulipotyphla and the family Erinaceidae. All occurrence records in the dataset relate exclusively to this species and document individuals admitted to Stichting Egelopvang Midden Nederland for rehabilitation and care.

Temporal Coverage

Project Data

Climate and land-use changes pose challenges for species, such as phenological shifts, disrupted food webs, and population fragmentation. Detecting such changes requires long-term datasets that are FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable). However, such datasets are scarce. The Western European hedgehog (Erinaceus europaeus) is a bioindicator for environmental health and a potential One Health sentinel. However, the hedgehog is declining in numbers and has recently been reclassified as "near threatened." To accurately reveal trends in population dynamics, long-term data is needed. However, a long-term FAIR dataset is lacking. In the Netherlands, extensive, but non-FAIR, data exist at wildlife rehabilitation centers, detailing, among other things, locations, injuries, and diseases. Much of these data is inaccessible because they are stored only on paper or in isolated databases. Without digitization, these data may be lost, undermining conservation efforts and policy. The aim of the Hedgehog Histories project is to digitize and mobilize historical hedgehog records from wildlife sanctuaries through the GBIF infrastructure and to increase the participation of wildlife sanctuaries in the NLBIF network.

The personnel involved in the project:

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