The first large-scale All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory in Europe: description of the Mercantour National Park ATBI datasets.

Background: An All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory (ATBI) is a comprehensive inventory of all species in a given territory. In 2007, the French Parc national du Mercantour and the Italian Parco Naturale Alpi Marittime started the first and most ambitious ATBI in Europe with more than 350 specialists and dozens of technicians and data managers involved.

New Information: The ATBI datasets from the Parc national du Mercantour in France are now publicly available.