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Waarnemingen.be - Non-native animal occurrences in Flanders and the Brussels Capital Region, Belgium
Wouter
Vanreusel
Natuurpunt Studie
BE
wouter.vanreusel@natuurpunt.be
http://www.natuurpunt.be
Kristijn
Swinnen
Natuurpunt Studie
BE
kristijn.swinnen@natuurpunt.be
http://www.natuurpunt.be
0000-0002-1910-9247
Karin
Gielen
Natuurpunt Studie
BE
karin.gielen@natuurpunt.be
http://www.natuurpunt.be
Diemer
Vercayie
Natuurpunt Studie
BE
diemer.vercayie@natuurpunt.be
http://www.natuurpunt.be
Gerald
Driessens
Natuurpunt Studie
BE
gerald.driessens@natuurpunt.be
http://www.natuurpunt.be
Wim
Veraghtert
Natuurpunt Studie
BE
wim.veraghtert@natuurpunt.be
http://www.natuurpunt.be
Peter
Desmet
Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO)
BE
peter.desmet@inbo.be
http://lifewatch.inbo.be
0000-0002-8442-8025
Marc
Herremans
Natuurpunt Studie
BE
marc.herremans@natuurpunt.be
http://www.natuurpunt.be
all working groups, species validators and observers
BE
http://www.waarnemingen.be
Wouter
Vanreusel
Natuurpunt Studie
BE
wouter.vanreusel@natuurpunt.be
http://www.natuurpunt.be
Peter
Desmet
Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO)
BE
peter.desmet@inbo.be
http://lifewatch.inbo.be
0000-0002-8442-8025
Kristijn
Swinnen
Natuurpunt Studie
BE
kristijn.swinnen@natuurpunt.be
0000-0002-1910-9247
2018-09-21
eng
Waarnemingen.be - Non-native animal occurrences in Flanders and the Brussels Capital Region, Belgium is a species occurrence dataset published by Natuurpunt and described (v1.2) in Swinnen et al. (2018, https://doi.org/10.3391/bir.2018.7.3.17). The dataset contains over 380,000 occurrences of 419 non-native animal species, recorded by volunteers (citizen scientists), mainly since 2008. The occurrences are derived from the database http://www.waarnemingen.be, hosted at the nature conservation NGO Natuurpunt in collaboration with Stichting Natuurinformatie.
Generalized and/or withheld information: location information is generalized to 5 x 5 km² Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) grid cells. Observer name, exact XY-coordinates, toponyms, and photographs are not included in the published dataset, but are known in the source database.
To allow anyone to use this dataset, we have released the data to the public domain under a Creative Commons Zero waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). We would appreciate however, if you read and follow these norms for data use (http://www.natuurpunt.be/normen-voor-datagebruik) and provide a link to the original dataset (https://doi.org/10.15468/k2aiak) whenever possible. If you use these data for a scientific paper, please cite the dataset following the applicable citation norms and/or consider us for co-authorship. We are always interested to provide more information or know how you have used the data, so please contact us via the contact information provided in the metadata or natuurdata@natuurpunt.be.
The publication of this dataset was supported by the INBO as part of the Flemish contribution to LifeWatch.
Occurrence
GBIF Dataset Type Vocabulary: http://rs.gbif.org/vocabulary/gbif/dataset_type.xml
Observation
GBIF Dataset Subtype Vocabulary: http://rs.gbif.org/vocabulary/gbif/dataset_subtype.xml
animals
distribution
observations
citizen science
monitoring
collection
invasive
invasive species
naturalized
naturalizing
exotic
incidental import
Natuurpunt
waarnemingen.be
n/a
To the extent possible under law, the publisher has waived all rights to these data and has dedicated them to the Public Domain (CC0 1.0). Users may copy, modify, distribute and use the work, including for commercial purposes, without restriction.
http://www.waarnemingen.be
Flanders and the Brussels Capital Region. These regions are situated in the north of Belgium and cover an area of 13,522 km² and 162 km² respectively (13,684 km² in total or 45% of the Belgian territory). Flanders is largely covered by agricultural land and urban areas while the Brussels Capital Region is mainly urban. All occurrence data are generalized to grid cells of 5 x 5 km² of the Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) coordinate system, with the grid codes indicated in the field verbatimCoordinates. The WGS84 centroids of these grid cells are calculated in decimalLatitude/Longitude with a coordinateUncertaintyInMeters of 3,769 meters using Wieczorek et al. (2004).
2.53
5.94
51.51
50.67
1915-01-01
2016-12-31
The dataset contains all animal taxa recorded in Flanders and the Brussels Capital Region which have the status naturalized, naturalizing, exotic, or incidental import in waarnemingen.be. This currently covers 419 species (as well as a number of varieties, subspecies, forma, hybrids and multispecies).
kingdom
Animalia
animals
annually
Marc
Herremans
Natuurpunt Studie
BE
marc.herremans@natuurpunt.be
http://www.natuurpunt.be
Not provided.
See geographic coverage.
The observations (species, date, location, observer) were recorded by volunteers (citizen scientists) at http://www.waarnemingen.be. The dataset also includes historical records and datasets imported in waarnemingen.be. The majority of the data are presence-only data (absence data are not included in this dataset).
Recorded data are constantly verified by species group specialists (including professionals) taking collection specimens, the observer’s species knowledge, added photographs and known species list of locations into account. The validation procedure from waarnemingen.be consists of an interactive procedure in which observers can be asked for additional information by a team of validators, after which the validator manually adds a validation status. Records that are not manually validated are additionally checked by an automated validation procedure that takes into account the number of manually validated observations within a specified date and distance range. 8.6% of the observations in this dataset are supported by photographs on waarnemingen.be. The validation status is indicated in the field identificationVerificationStatus, the link to the original record in references.
2017-04-21T10:58:43.277+02:00
dataset
Vanreusel W, Swinnen K, Gielen K, Vercayie D, Driessens G, Veraghtert W, Desmet P, Herremans M, all working groups, species validators and observers (2017): Waarnemingen.be - Non-native animal occurrences in Flanders and the Brussels Capital Region, Belgium. v1.3. Natuurpunt. Dataset/Occurrence. https://doi.org/10.15468/k2aiak
Swinnen K, Vercayie D, Vanreusel W, Barendse R, Boers K, Bogaert J, Dekeukeleire D, Driessens G, Dupriez P, Jooris R, Steeman R, Van Asten K, Van Den Neucker T, Van Dorsselaer P, Van Vooren P, Wysmantel N, Gielen K, Desmet P, Herremans M, all working groups, species validators and recorders Waarnemingen.be (2018) Waarnemingen.be – Non-native plant and animal occurrences in Flanders and the Brussels Capital Region, Belgium. BioInvasions Records 7(3): 335–342. https://doi.org/10.3391/bir.2018.7.3.17
Wieczorek J, Guo QG, Hijmans RJ (2004) The point-radius method for georeferencing locality descriptions and calculating associated uncertainty. International Journal of Geographical Information Science 18: 745–767. https://doi.org/10.1080/13658810412331280211
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