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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 Riksdag by the Swedish Species Information Centre (ArtDatabanken) at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) in Uppsala.

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  1. ^ "Nationalnyckeln till Sveriges flora och fauna". Nationalencyklopedin (in Swedish). Retrieved 27 August 2010.
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