Table 1.

Requested information to characterize submitted monitoring projects/programmes

Variable	Values
Contributor	First and last name(s)
Description of project	Text description provided by contributor
Programme/project name	Text name, not available
Barcoding study	True/false
Within-species diversity	True/false
Temporal category	‘Snapshot’, ‘Horizontal’
Annual sampling?	True/false
Country	One or more country names
Political extent	Regional, national, multi-national
Marker type	Organelle sequence, other autosomal, SNP, microsatellite, sex chromosome, multi-marker
Strict/relaxed	‘Strict’ indicates study was a priori designed as a monitoring study; ‘relaxed’ if data used post-hoc for monitoring
Focal groups (true/false)	Carnivora, bear, wolf, lynx, other mammal, Aves, Insecta, fish, marine, plant, forest trees, amphibians, other, domesticated/captive
Name(s) of focal taxon/taxa	Common names (English), scientific names
EU Directive (Habitats or Birds) and Annex	EU Directive and Annex listing for each monitored species
Documentation/document type	Project report in national language, project report in English, government report in national language, other report in national language, scientific publication, not available
Document format	PDF, link, paper copy, not available
Document locator	DOI if available
Document title or reference	Complete citation when available
Project or report webpage	URL listed when available
Notes	Unrestricted text