Social media photo content for Sierra Nevada: a dataset to support the assessment of cultural ecosystem services in protected areas Ros Candeira, Andrea Moreno Llorca, Ricardo Alcaraz Segura, Domingo Bonet García, Francisco Javier Vaz, Ana Sofía Biosphere reserve Cultural ecosystem service Nature-based experience Social media content This dataset provides crowd-sourced and georeferenced information useful for the assessment of cultural ecosystem services in the Sierra Nevada Biosphere Reserve (southern Spain). Data were collected within the European project ECOPOTENTIAL focused on Earth observations of ecosystem services. The dataset comprises 778 records expressing the results of the content analysis of social media photos published in Flickr. Our dataset is illustrated in this data paper with density maps for different types of information. 2020-04-15T11:45:23Z 2020-04-15T11:45:23Z 2020-03-13 info:eu-repo/semantics/article Ros-Candeira A, Moreno-Llorca R, Alcaraz-Segura D, Bonet-García FJ, Vaz AS (2020) Social media photo content for Sierra Nevada: a dataset to support the assessment of cultural ecosystem services in protected areas. Nature Conservation 38: 1–12. http://hdl.handle.net/10481/61247 10.3897/natureconservation.38.38325 eng info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/FP7/641762 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Atribución 3.0 España Pensoft Publishers