INBOVeg - 1995 Vegetation records from the "Het Aardgat" nature reserve in Flanders, Belgium

Evento de muestreo Observación
Última versión publicado por Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO) el ago 18, 2026 Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO)
Fecha de publicación:
18 de agosto de 2026
Licencia:
CC-BY 4.0

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Descripción

This dataset was collected as part of a thesis study in association with the university KU Leuven, investigating the groundwater-related vegetative ecology in the "Het Aardgat" nature reserve in Tienen, Flanders. The data has been stored in INBOVEG, the INBO vegetation record database (also part of the "Global Index of Vegetation-plot databases" and the "European Vegetation Archive") and is being published here in its entirety.The GBIF dataset is the same as the data in INBOVeg. The relevant identification code is 'IV2014062611241139'.Details of the sampling protocol are given in the associated (Dutch) cited report, De Smet, 1996.Some of this data has been previously published on GBIF as part of the FLORABANK1 bulkdata publication (https://doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.12.2849) at either a 1 km² or a 4 km² scale, here they are published as specific locations (with XXXm² uncertainty). No coordinate uncertainty was noted in the accompanying report, so 310m² is only an estimate. The coordinates were originally recorded in the Belgian Lambert system, but they are given here as WGS84 coordinates.To allow anyone to use this dataset, we have released the data to the public domain under a Creative Commons Attribution waiver (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). We would appreciate, however, if you read and follow these norms for data use (http://www.inbo.be/en/norms-for-data-use) and provide a link to the original dataset 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 know how you have used or visualised the data, or to provide more information, so please contact us via the contact information provided in the metadata or via opendata@inbo.be.

Registros

Los datos en este recurso de evento de muestreo han sido publicados como Archivo Darwin Core(DwC-A), el cual es un formato estándar para compartir datos de biodiversidad como un conjunto de una o más tablas de datos. La tabla de datos del core contiene 538 registros.

también existen 1 tablas de datos de extensiones. Un registro en una extensión provee información adicional sobre un registro en el core. El número de registros en cada tabla de datos de la extensión se ilustra a continuación.

Event (core)
538
Occurrence 
7464

Este IPT archiva los datos y, por lo tanto, sirve como repositorio de datos. Los datos y los metadatos del recurso están disponibles para su descarga en la sección descargas. La tabla versiones enumera otras versiones del recurso que se han puesto a disposición del público y permite seguir los cambios realizados en el recurso a lo largo del tiempo.

Versiones

La siguiente tabla muestra sólo las versiones publicadas del recurso que son de acceso público.

Derechos

Los usuarios deben respetar los siguientes derechos de uso:

El publicador y propietario de los derechos de este trabajo es Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO). Esta obra está bajo una licencia Creative Commons de Atribución/Reconocimiento (CC-BY 4.0).

Registro GBIF

Este recurso ha sido registrado en GBIF con el siguiente UUID: 3b60d9d7-36de-40af-a390-65b8f9f4fff6.  Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO) publica este recurso y está registrado en GBIF como un publicador de datos avalado por Belgian Biodiversity Platform.

Palabras clave

Samplingevent; Observation

Contactos

Els De Smet
  • Originador
  • Punto De Contacto
Maria-Rose Eves Down
  • Proveedor De Los Metadatos
INBO
Brussel
BE
J Van Assche
  • Verificador
KULeuven

Datos del proyecto

Responsible, effective management plans and actions in nature reserves require a thorough understanding of the ecological relationships in those areas. This thesis study was carried out in order to deepen such knowledge regarding the ‘Het Aardgat’ nature reserve in Tienen, Flanders, Belgium. This included a partial vegetation inventory of the area, with extra attention paid to the relationship between groundwater-dependent plants and the hydrology of the area.

Título Hydrological and soil chemical site characteristics of the vegetation in the ‘Het Aardgat’ nature reserve in Tienen (Original Dutch title "Hydrologische en bodemkundige standplaatskarakteristieken van de vegetatie in het NR 'Het Aardgat' in Tienen")
Fuentes de Financiación n:a
Descripción del área de estudio n/a
Descripción del diseño n/a

Personas asociadas al proyecto:

Els De Smet
  • Investigador Principal
J Van Assche
  • Verificador

Métodos de muestreo

3 x 3 m sample plots were marked out and all vegetation within was checked against a species list of 82 groundwater-related plant species. Species presence and cover/abundance were recorded. The layer of the vegetation was also recorded, and is noted under the 'occurrenceRemarks' column. Hydrological and soil chemistry measurements were also taken and recorded, though these abiotic measurements are not presented in this GBIF data publication. A simplified Braun-Blanquet scale was used to estimate the coverage/abundance of the relevant species in the sampling plots, with 5 different coverage classes: 1 (0.1-20%); 2 (20.1-40%); 3 (40.1-60%); 4 (60.1-80%) and 5 (80.1-100%).

Área de Estudio Due to the research focus on groundwater-related vegetation, not all species were recorded. The list of 82 relevant species is given in the related publication (De Smet, 1995): it is important to note that, unless it was on the list, the lack of an observation of a species does not necessarily mean that it was not present. It is possible that in a future update, these absences will also be detailed, but this is not currently foreseen in project time.
Control de Calidad Plant identifications were carried out by a trained expert, and checked by another.

Descripción de la metodología paso a paso:

  1. n/a

Referencias bibliográficas

  1. De Smet, E. (1996). Hydrologische en bodemkundige standplaatskarakteristieken van de vegetatie. Thesis, KULeuven.

Metadatos adicionales

Descripción de mantenimiento This study was carried out and completed some years ago, and although no update is planned, if it proves possible then the absence records will be added in the future.
Identificadores alternativos 3b60d9d7-36de-40af-a390-65b8f9f4fff6
https://ipt.inbo.be/resource?r=inboveg-aardgat-tienen