INBOVeg - Vegetation surveys carried out in the early 2000's as part of a study investigating reuse of dredged material in Flanders, Belgium

Sampling event Observation
Latest version published by Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO) on Jul 13, 2026 Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO)
Publication date:
13 July 2026
License:
CC-BY-NC 4.0

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Description

This data comes from INBOVEG, the INBO vegetation record database (also part of the "Global Index of Vegetation-plot databases" and the "European Vegetation Archive").The GBIF dataset is the same as the data in INBOVeg. The relevant identification code is 'IV2014062311261571'.This dataset 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 3.5m² uncertainty. This uncertainty is an estimate, as the coordinates given are from the centre of each 5 metre x 5 metre plot and no uncertainty was recorded at the time. The uncertainty has therefore been estimated as the maximum distance from the centre of the plot to each corner of the plot. In the data, under 'Occurrence remarks', the vegetation layer is noted. All records and identifications were carried out by trained experts. Details of the project, including the sampling protocol, are given in the associated journal article "Piesschaert, F., Mertens, J., Huybrechts, W., De Rache, P. (2005). Early vegetation succession and management options on a brackish sediment dike. Ecological Engineering, 25(4), 349-364", with extra information here: https://protocols.inbo.be/2023.03/index.html and on the associated zenodo protocol-bundle here: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7619958. To allow for the use of this dataset, we have released the data to the public domain under a Creative Commons CCBYNC waiver (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode). 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, 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 300 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)
300
Occurrence 
5229

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

The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.

Rights

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The publisher and rights holder of this work is Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC 4.0) License.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 2bfe294b-7bd1-4a70-a688-9b434cc54ea0.  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; Observation; INBOVeg; INBOdata; dredging; silt

Contacts

Frederic Piesschaert
  • Originator ●
  • Point Of Contact
Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO)
BE
Jan Mertens
  • Originator
Maria-Rose Eves Down
  • Metadata Provider
INBO
Brussel
BE

Geographic Coverage

Flanders, Belgium

Bounding Coordinates South West [50.897, 3.35], North East [51.351, 4.309]

Taxonomic Coverage

N/A

Kingdom Plantae

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 2001-07-31 / 2004-09-28

Project Data

No Description available

Title Hergebruik van baggerspecies in landschapsdijken: Risico's, ontwikkelingsmogelijkheden en beheer van dijken uit brak baggerslib
Funding Port of Antwerp
Study Area Description An experimental dike along the river Scheldt. Please see the data for specific locations, as well as the cited article/report.

The personnel involved in the project:

Frederic Piesschaert
  • Principal Investigator
Jan Mertens
  • Principal Investigator

Bibliographic Citations

  1. Van Landuyt, W., Vanhecke, L., Brosens, D. (2012) Florabank1: a grid-based database on vascular plant distribution in the northern part of Belgium (Flanders and the Brussels Capital region). PhytoKeys 12: 59-67. https://doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.12.2849
  2. Mertens, J., Piesschaert, F. (2005). Hergebruik van baggerspecie in landschapsdijken: Risico's, ontwikkelingsmogelijkheden en beheer van dijken uit brak baggerslib : samenvatting en richtlijnen voor ontwerp : oktober 2005. Instituut voor Natuurbehoud. https://pureportal.inbo.be/nl/publications/hergebruik-van-baggerspecie-in-landschapsdijken-risicos-ontwikkel-2/
  3. Piesschaert, F., Mertens, J., Huybrechts, W., De Rache, P. (2005). Early vegetation succession and management options on a brackish sediment dike. Ecological Engineering, 25(4), 349-364 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoleng.2005.06.004
  4. Piesschaert, F. & J. Mertens. (2005). Onderzoeksproject Landschapsdijken. Risico’s, ontwikkelingsmogelijkheden en beheer van dijken uit brak baggerslib. Instituut voor Natuurbehoud en Laboratorium voor Bosbouw (Universiteit Gent). In opdracht van het Gemeentelijk Havenbedrijf Antwerpen. 299 p.

Additional Metadata

To allow for the use of this dataset, we have released the data to the public domain under a Creative Commons CCBYNC waiver (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode). 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, opendata@inbo.be.

Acknowledgements
Purpose
Alternative Identifiers 2bfe294b-7bd1-4a70-a688-9b434cc54ea0
https://ipt.inbo.be/resource?r=inboveg-drainage-surveys-2004