INBOVeg - Vegetation surveys carried out in 2018 and 2019 as part of the SBO "Future Floodplains" project in Flanders, Belgium

Sampling event
Latest version published by Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO) on Apr 13, 2026 Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO)

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Description

This publication brings together three datasets from the SBO Futurefloodplains project together into one dataset. The 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 codes are 'IV2018072709165332', 'IV2019062504463183' and 'IV2018062705565942'.In the data, under 'Occurrence remarks', the vegetation layer is noted.The 'Original Londo scale' used for 'organismQuantity' can be found here: https://protocols.inbo.be/2023.03/. The version of the protocol used in the surveys is uncertain, but the scale itself has not changed. The current version as of this publication is 2023.03.To allow anyone to use this dataset, we have released the data to the public domain under a Creative Commons CCBY license. We would appreciate 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 (https://doi.org/10.15468/gouexm) 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.

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 127 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)
127
Occurrence 
2519

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). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: b3bc98e2-9f6f-48cd-b96f-37c5ffc5dd5a.  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

Piet De Becker
  • Originator
  • Point Of Contact
Siege Van Ballaert
  • Point Of Contact
INBO
siege.vanballaert@inbo.be
Dries Adriaens
Tom De Dobbelaer
Cécile Herr
Maria-Rose Eves Down

Geographic Coverage

Flanders, Belgium

Bounding Coordinates South West [50.801, 4.632], North East [51.107, 5.358]

Taxonomic Coverage

N/A

Kingdom Plantae

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 2018-05-28 / 2019-06-27

Project Data

The FWO-SBO project 'Future Floodplains' is a partnership between various scientific partners in Flanders and focuses on ecosystem services of floodplains under socio-ecological changes. Rivers and alluvial floodplains represent many ecosystem services (ESS) such as biodiversity, carbon storage, groundwater storage, agriculture, water buffering and recreation. Many of these ESS are, however, conflicting for involved social users and policy makers. Furthermore, these ESS may alter due to climate change, land use change, urbanization, or a change in river management. The various stakeholders involved with rivers and floodplains currently lack the necessary tools to compare the value of the various, often conflicting, ecosystem services attributed to floodplains in order to make more balanced policy and management decisions. A sustainable management of future floodplains requires in the first place a fundamental insight into the various geomorphological, hydrological and ecological processes and their interactions, and this in a number of contrasting environmental settings. In floodplains there is an important interplay between geomorphological, ecological and hydrological processes. In order to get a detailed understanding of the sensitivity of floodplain geoecohydrology to changing driving forces and controlling factors, and in order to study the dynamics of floodplains under changing socio-ecological conditions, an interdisciplinary approach is needed, in which this interplay of processes is studied in a holistic way. The Future Floodplains project therefore focused on the interaction between geomorphological, ecological and hydrological processes in Flanders' floodplains. Please see https://www.futurefloodplains.be/en/ for more details.

Title SBO FutureFloodplains
Funding 'Future Floodplains' was financed by FWO (Fund for Scientific Research - Flanders) as an SBO-project. The Strategic Basic Research (SBO) program focuses on innovative research which, if scientifically successful, will create prospects for economic or societal applications. The project ran from May 1st 2017 until April 30th 2021.
Study Area Description Flanders, Belgium
Design Description Surveys were carried out according to the 'original Londo scale ', with the category of vegetation noted in 'organismQuantity'. The protocol and vegetation categories can be found here: https://protocols.inbo.be/2023.03/. The version of the protocol used in the surveys is uncertain, but the scale itself has not changed. The current version as of this publication is 2023.03.

The personnel involved in the project:

Piet De Becker
  • Principal Investigator
Siege Van Ballaert

Additional Metadata

To allow anyone to use this dataset, we have released the data to the public domain under a Creative Commons CCBY license. We would appreciate 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 (https://doi.org/10.15468/gouexm) 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 via opendata@inbo.be.

Acknowledgements
Alternative Identifiers b3bc98e2-9f6f-48cd-b96f-37c5ffc5dd5a
https://ipt.inbo.be/resource?r=inboveg-sbo-floodplains-bulk-event