bfc6fe18-77c7-4ede-a555-9207d60d1d86 https://ipt.inbo.be/resource?r=planten-natuurpunt-occurrences Waarnemingen.be - Plant occurrences in Flanders and the Brussels Capital Region, Belgium Roosmarijn Steeman Natuurpunt Studie
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roosmarijn.steeman@natuurpunt.be http://www.natuurpunt.be
Wouter Vanreusel Natuurpunt Studie
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wouter.vanreusel@natuurpunt.be http://www.natuurpunt.be
Rutger Barendse Plantenwerkgroep Genk
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rutger.barendse@telenet.be https://www.natuurpunt.be/afdelingen/plantenwerkgroep-genk
Filip Verloove Botanic Garden Meise
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filip.verloove@botanicgardenmeise.be http://www.plantentuinmeise.be
Nico Wysmantel
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nico.wysmantel@telenet.be
Walter Van den Bussche
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walter.vdbussche@telenet.be
Thomas Gyselinck
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thomas.gyselinck@gmail.com
Pieter Hendrickx Natuurpunt
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pieter.hendrickx@natuurpunt.be http://www.natuurpunt.be
Arnout Zwaenepoel WVI
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azwaenepoel@wvi.be
Pierre Van Vooren
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Peter Desmet Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO)
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peter.desmet@inbo.be http://lifewatch.inbo.be 0000-0002-8442-8025
Karin Gielen Natuurpunt Studie
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karin.gielen@natuurpunt.be http://www.natuurpunt.be
Marc Herremans Natuurpunt Studie
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marc.herremans@natuurpunt.be http://www.natuurpunt.be
Kristijn Swinnen Natuurpunt Studie
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kristijn.swinnen@natuurpunt.be http://www.natuurpunt.be 0000-0002-1910-9247
all plant working groups and plant observers
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http://www.waarnemingen.be
Wouter Vanreusel Natuurpunt
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wouter.vanreusel@natuurpunt.be http://www.natuurpunt.be
Peter Desmet Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO)
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peter.desmet@inbo.be http://lifewatch.inbo.be 0000-0002-8442-8025
Kristijn Swinnen Natuurpunt Studie
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kristijn.swinnen@natuurpunt.be http://www.natuurpunt.be 0000-0002-1910-9247
2018-09-21 eng Waarnemingen.be - Plant occurrences in Flanders and the Brussels Capital Region, Belgium is a species occurrence dataset published by Natuurpunt and described (v1.4) in Steeman et al. (2017, https://doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.85.14925). The dataset contains close to 1.2 million plant occurrences of almost 1,200 naturally occurring species (native, vagrant or migrant 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. Together with the datasets Van Landuyt & Brosens (2017, http://www.gbif.org/dataset/271c444f-f8d8-4986-b748-e7367755c0c1) and Van Landuyt & Noé (2015, https://doi.org/10.15468/xnlbke), the dataset represents the most complete overview of indigenous plants in Flanders and the Brussels Capital Region. Generalized and/or withheld information: location information is generalized to 4 x 4 km² IFBL 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/fyuklz) 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 plants distribution observations citizen science 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 (51%), urban areas (30%) and woodland (10%) while the Brussels Capital Region mainly consists of urban areas (73%), woodland (12%) and other green areas (10%) (Vriens et al. 2011). All occurrence data are generalized to Instituut voor Floristiek van België en Luxemburg (IFBL) grid cells of 4 x 4 km², 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 2,828 meters using Wieczorek et al. (2004). 2.53 5.94 51.51 50.67 1855-06-30 2016-12-31 The datasets contains close to 1,200 naturally occurring vascular plant species (as well as a number of subspecies, varieties, forms, hybrids and multispecies) recorded in Flanders and the Brussels Capital Region. This includes angiosperms (flowering plants), gymnosperms, ferns and allies, but not algae, mosses and lichens. If the observer remarked that the specific individual of this native plant was introduced by man, then this is recorded in the field establishmentMeans. The taxonomic reference for the dataset is Heukels’ Flora of the Netherlands by Van der Meijden (2005) which follows the classification as suggested by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (APG II 2003). kingdom Plantae plants Plants have a long history of being recorded by both amateur and professional botanists. Volunteer data from amateur botanists were always an important source of distribution data of plants. The atlas of Flanders and the Brussels Capital region (Van Landuyt et al. 2006) was based on the teamwork of many volunteer botanists, NGOs, scientific institutes and governmental organisations. Since Natuurpunt, the largest nature conservation NGO in Flanders, Belgium, launched the web portal waarnemingen.be in 2008, the number of plant observations in Flanders and the Brussels Capital Region has risen sharply. Beside IFBL-mapping and project-related observations, this database is easily used for occasional observations and can be used for monitoring (wildlife) areas. Old notebooks and reports were screened and stored in the database (Steeman et al. 2012). The team of specialized validators motivates the inexperienced observers and validates observations. Here we publish these records on a IFBL (Instituut voor Floristiek van België en Luxemburg) grid cell resolution of 4 × 4 km². biannually Marc Herremans Natuurpunt Studie
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marc.herremans@natuurpunt.be http://www.natuurpunt.be
Not provided. See geographic coverage. Most observations (species, date, location, observer) were recorded by volunteers (citizen scientists). The dataset also includes historical records and datasets imported in waarnemingen.be. The large majority of records (95%) is a casual observation (presence only record). 5% of observations were registered as part of a species checklist. This is recorded in the field samplingProtocol. Recorded data are verified by a group of botanical experts (including professional botanists), based on collected specimens, the observer’s species knowledge, added photographs and known species list of locations. 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. Manual validation focuses on rare species, species that are reported outside their known range and observations accompanied by pictures. Records that are not manually validated are additionally checked by an automated validation procedure that takes into account the number of manually validated observations of a species within a specified date and distance range. 13% of the plant records in this dataset are supported by photographs in waarnemingen.be. The validation status is indicated in the field identificationVerificationStatus, the link to the original record in references.
2016-04-27T04:35:32.356+02:00 dataset Steeman R, Vanreusel W, Barendse R, Verloove F, Wysmantel N, Van den Bussche W, Gyselinck T, Hendrickx P, Zwaenepoel A, Van Vooren P, Desmet P, Gielen K, Herremans M, Swinnen K, all plant working groups and plant observers (2016): Waarnemingen.be - Plant occurrences in Flanders and the Brussels Capital Region, Belgium. v1.5. Natuurpunt. Dataset/Occurrence. https://doi.org/10.15468/fyuklz Steeman R, Vanreusel W, Barendse R, Verloove F, Wysmantel N, Van den Bussche W, Gyselinck T, Hendrickx P, Zwaenepoel A, Van Vooren P, Jacobs S, Desmet P, Gielen K, Herremans M, Swinnen K (2017) Waarnemingen.be – Plant occurrences in Flanders and the Brussels Capital Region, Belgium. PhytoKeys 85: 1-10. https://doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.85.14925 APG II (2003) An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG II. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 141: 399–436. https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1095-8339.2003.t01-1-00158.x Steeman R, Vervoort L, Lambrechts J (2012) Actualisatie Provinciale Prioritaire plantensoorten en aanzet voor de ‘hotspotkaart van de bedreigde plantensoorten in Vlaams-Brabant’. Rapport Natuurpunt Studie 10: 1–51. Van der Meijden R (2005) Heukels’ Flora van Nederland, 23th print, Wolters Noordhoff. Van Landuyt W, Noé N (2015) Belgian IFBL Flora Checklists (1939–1971). Belgium Biodiversity Platform. Dataset/Occurrence. https://doi.org/10.15468/xnlbke Van Landuyt W, Brosens D (2017) Florabank1 – A grid-based database on vascular plant distribution in the northern part of Belgium (Flanders and the Brussels Capital region). Version 45.6. Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO). Dataset/Occurrence. http://www.gbif.org/dataset/271c444f-f8d8-4986-b748-e7367755c0c1 Data paper: https://doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.12.2849 Van Landuyt W, Hoste I, Vanhecke L, Van den Bremt P, Vercruysse W, De Beer D (2006) Atlas van de Flora van Vlaanderen en het Brussels Gewest. Instituut voor Natuur- en Bosonderzoek: Brussel: Belgium. Vriens L, Bosch H, De Knijf G, De Saeger S, Oosterlynck P, Guelinckx R, T’jollyn F, Van Hove M, Paelinckx D (2011) De Biologische Waarderingskaart. Biotopen en hun verspreiding in Vlaanderen en het Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Mededelingen van het Instituut voor Natuur- en Bosonderzoek INBO.M.2011.1. Instituut voor Natuur- en Bosonderzoek, Brussel, 416. 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 http://data.inbo.be/ipt/logo.do?r=planten-natuurpunt-occurrences bfc6fe18-77c7-4ede-a555-9207d60d1d86/v1.5.xml