Editing Northern Europe (section)

===World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions===
[[File:WGSRPD Northern Europe.svg|thumb|upright=1.15|Northern Europe, as defined by the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions]]
The [[World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions]] is a biogeographical system developed by the international [[Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG)]] organization, formerly the International Working Group on Taxonomic Databases. The WGSRPD standards, like other standards for data fields in botanical databases, were developed to promote "the wider and more effective dissemination of information about the world's heritage of biological organisms for the benefit of the world at large". The system provides clear definitions and codes for recording [[plant]] distributions at four scales or levels, from "botanical continents" down to parts of large countries. The following countries are included in their classification of "northern Europe":<ref>{{Cite book |last = Brummitt |first = R. K. |year = 2001 |title = World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions |edition = 2nd |publisher = International Working Group on Taxonomic Databases For Plant Sciences (TDWG) |url = https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tdwg/wgsrpd/master/109-488-1-ED/2nd%20Edition/TDWG_geo2.pdf |access-date = 27 July 2021 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160125135239/http://www.nhm.ac.uk/hosted_sites/tdwg/TDWG_geo2.pdf |archive-date = 25 January 2016}}</ref>
*[[Denmark]]
*[[Finland]]
*[[Iceland]]
*[[Republic of Ireland|Ireland]]
*[[Norway]]
*[[Sweden]]
*[[United Kingdom]]
as well as the dependent areas:
*[[Åland]]
*[[Faroe Islands]]
*[[Isle of Man]]
*[[Jan Mayen]]
*[[Svalbard]]