INBOVEG - BELAIR LITORA vegetation relevés in coastal grasslands, Flanders, Belgium

Sampling event
Latest version published by Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO) on Feb 13, 2026 Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO)
Publication date:
13 February 2026
License:
CC0 1.0

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Description

This dataset includes vegetation survey data of the BELAIR field campaigns situated within Natura 2000 sites in the LITORA area at the Belgian coastal zone. These surveys comprise plant species inventories conducted at 'Lage Moere van Meetkerke' (part of the Poldercomplex) during the summers of 2013 and 2015, and at the Zwin grasslands (within the Dune areas site) in the summers of 2014 and 2015.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 codes are IV2014012815350471 (Lage Moere 2013), IV2015081416383391 (Lage Moere 2015), IV2014090815561332 (Zwin grasslands 2014) and IV2015081416323071 (Zwin grasslands 2015).BELAIR responds to BELSPO’s STEREO II component scientific support to “develop Belgian test sites, for which targeted Earth Observation data and other measurement results are collected, on behalf of the Belgian and international research communities, and which may be used as calibration and validation sites for new EO missions, data and products”.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 (https://doi.org/10.15468/58528g) 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 110 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)
110
Occurrence 
1927

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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Rights

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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: 1d986050-1897-4708-90ef-859821174a6a.  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; vegetation relevés; Natura 2000; Poldercomplex; Zwin; Flanders

Contacts

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

Geographic Coverage

The study areas at the 'Lage Moere van Meetkerke' en 'Zwin Kleyne Vlakte en Zwinduinen' are situated in the coastal zone of Flanders, Belgium.

Bounding Coordinates South West [51.21, 3.13], North East [51.37, 3.36]

Taxonomic Coverage

No Description available

Kingdom Plantae

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 2013-09-05 / 2013-09-06
Start Date / End Date 2014-07-08 / 2014-09-10
Start Date / End Date 2015-07-06 / 2015-07-10
Start Date / End Date 2015-07-02 / 2015-07-14

Bibliographic Citations

  1. Vanden Borre, J. (2014). BELAIR field campaign 2013 - BELAIR LITORA - final report. https://pureportal.inbo.be/en/publications/belair-field-campaign-2013-belair-litora-final-report/
  2. VITO, EVINBO, UGent, KU Leuven (2016). BELAIR field campaign 2015 - BELAIR LITORA - final report. VITO. https://pureportal.inbo.be/en/publications/belair-field-campaign-2015-belair-litora-final-report/

Additional Metadata

Purpose
Alternative Identifiers 1d986050-1897-4708-90ef-859821174a6a
https://ipt.inbo.be/resource?r=inboveg-belair-litora-lagemoere-zwin-grasslands-events