INBOVEG - Vegetation surveys in Averbode Bos en Heide nature reserve in 2015, Flanders, Belgium

Sampling event
Latest version published by Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO) on Sep 4, 2026 Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO)
Publication date:
September 4, 2026
License:
CC0 1.0

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Description

This dataset comprises vegetation surveys conducted during the summer of 2015 in and around the nature reserve ‘Averbode Bos en Heide’ in Flanders (northern Belgium). The plant cover and abundance were recorded using the Londo scale in plots located largely within the Natura 2000 network (partially overlapping the Demervallei Special Area of Conservation). These inventories were carried out to provide field reference data in support of a remote sensing project focused on heathland habitat mapping.This dataset comes from INBOVEG, the Flemish vegetation database, also part of the Global Index of Vegetation-plot databases (GIV) and the European Vegetation Archive. This GBIF dataset contains the same data as in INBOVEG: its relevant GIV identification code is IV2015081416491500 (AverbodeBosHeide2015).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 it however, if you would 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 visualized the data, or to provide more information, so please contact us via the contact information provided in the metadata, or opendata@inbo.be.

Data Records

The data in this sampling event resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 107 records.

1 extension data tables also exist. An extension record supplies extra information about a core record. The number of records in each extension data table is illustrated below.

Event (core)
107
Occurrence 
606

This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.

Versions

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How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Vanden Borre J, Cooleman S (2026). INBOVEG - Vegetation surveys in Averbode Bos en Heide nature reserve in 2015, Flanders, Belgium. Version 1.0. Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO). Samplingevent dataset. https://ipt.inbo.be/resource?r=inboveg-averbode-b-h-2015-events&v=1.0

Rights

Researchers should respect the following rights statement:

The publisher and rights holder of this work is Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO). 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.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 9138b54a-3f3f-40a6-b474-2ba3fc6df6d9.  Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO) publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Belgian Biodiversity Platform.

Keywords

Samplingevent

Contacts

Jeroen Vanden Borre
  • Metadata Provider ●
  • Originator
Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO)
BE
Stijn Cooleman
  • Metadata Provider ●
  • Originator
Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO) / Belgian Biodiversity Platform
BE
Sophie Vermeersch
  • Point Of Contact
Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO)
BE

Geographic Coverage

‘Averbode Bos en Heide’ nature reserve and surrounding area, Flanders, Belgium

Bounding Coordinates South West [51.023, 4.95], North East [51.063, 5.02]

Taxonomic Coverage

No Description available

Kingdom Plantae

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 2015-07-27 / 2015-07-30

Bibliographic Citations

  1. Vanden Borre, J., Pauly, K., Van Hoey, S., De Reu, J., Desmet, P. (2019). Orthophotos and DSMs derived from RPAS flights over the nature reserve Averbode Bos & Heide in Flanders, Belgium. INBO. 10.5281/zenodo.2654620 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2654620

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