INBOVEG - Vegetation surveys in the Zwin tidal mudflat and salt marsh in 1933, Flanders, Belgium

Sampling event
Latest version published by Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO) on Aug 5, 2026 Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO)
Publication date:
5 August 2026
License:
CC0 1.0

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Description

This dataset includes vegetation survey data situated within Natura 2000 area in the Zwin (Knokke-Heist) at the Belgian coastal zone. These surveys comprise plant species inventories conducted at the tidal mudflat and salt marsh of the Zwin nature reserve during 1933 (van Langendonck 1933).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 IV2015062513233033 (Schorren_VanLangendonck1933).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 131 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)
131
Occurrence 
564

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.

How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

van Langendonck H, Cooleman S (2026). INBOVEG - Vegetation surveys in the Zwin tidal mudflat and salt marsh in 1933, Flanders, Belgium. Version 1.4. Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO). Samplingevent dataset. https://ipt.inbo.be/resource?r=inboveg-vanlangendonck-zwin-events&v=1.4

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: a18dd488-5572-43be-ba34-521886a42458.  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

H.J. van Langendonck
  • Originator
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

Estuarine part of the Zwin, especially the Zwin Plain, Flanders, Belgium

Bounding Coordinates South West [51.345, 3.342], North East [51.37, 3.38]

Taxonomic Coverage

No Description available

Kingdom Plantae

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 1933-01-01 / 1933-12-31

Bibliographic Citations

  1. van Langendonck, H.J. (1933). La sociologie végétale des schorres du Zwyn et de Philippine. Bulletin de la Société Royale de Botanique de Belgique, t. LXV, fasc. 2, 1933, pp. 112-136. https://www.jstor.org/stable/20791674
  2. Van den Balck, E. (1994). Vegetatiekundige en ecologische studie van de slikken en schorren in het Zwin (Knokke-Heist, West-Vlaanderen). Licentiaatsverhandeling RUG, Gent. 167 p. + bijl.
  3. Van den Balck, E., Hermy, M. (2016). Vegetation and ecology of tidal marshes in the Zwin (Knokke-Heist, West-Vlaanderen). Laboratorium Plantkunde; Vakgroep Morfologie, Systematiek en Ecologie; Faculteit Wetenschappen. RUG: Belgium. Occurrence dataset on GBIF & OBIS. https://doi.org/10.14284/186 https://doi.org/10.14284/186
  4. Cosyns, E., Provoost, S. & Zwaenepoel, A. (2022). Vegetatiemonitoring. In Cosyns E. (red.) Monitoring van het natuurherstel in het grensoverschrijdende Zwin 2011 - 2021. Eerste tussentijds rapport WVI, INBO, Natuurpunt Studie & Universiteit Gent i.o.v. WVI, Brugge. i.o.v. Agentschap voor Natuur en Bos, de Vlaams Nederlandse Scheldecommissie en de Provincie Zeeland. https://natuurenbos.be/sites/default/files/2024-01/zwin_monitoringsrapport_2022.pdf

Additional Metadata

Purpose
Alternative Identifiers a18dd488-5572-43be-ba34-521886a42458
https://ipt.inbo.be/resource?r=inboveg-vanlangendonck-zwin-events