Meetnetten.be - Bat winter roosts counts (totals per room/section) Flanders, Belgium

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 3,702 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.

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:

Piesschaert F, De Bruyn L, Gyselings R, Dekeukeleire D, Cooleman S, Brosens D, Westra T, Desmet P, Ruyts S, Lefevre A, Vandendriessche B, Boers K, Vermeiren H, Palmans G, Roels E, Pollet M (2025). Meetnetten.be - Bat winter roosts counts (totals per room/section) Flanders, Belgium. Version 1.7. Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO). Samplingevent dataset. https://ipt.inbo.be/resource?r=meetnetten-vleermuizen-wintertelling-sectie-occurrences&v=1.7

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: 36604d5e-91fe-4e80-b5c6-cbda673bc06b.  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; bats; monitoring; priority species; Flanders

Contacts

Geographic Coverage

Flanders, Belgium

Taxonomic Coverage

All bats are in the target scope of these winter roosts counts in Meetnetten.be, as listed at https://meetnetten.be/projects/79/.

Temporal Coverage

Project Data

Meetnetten.be is a suite of monitoring networks through which the Flemish Government is collecting high-quality information on 65 priority plant and animal species. These are species on which Flanders has to report to Europe in the framework of the Habitats and Birds Directives, but also other species that are important for the Flemish nature policy.

The personnel involved in the project:

Sampling Methods

Counts of winter roosts in which bats’ total numbers are noted per species per sublocation (room or section), but without registering detailed information for each individual. This protocol is only used for sites with sublocations (mostly larger sites such as old forts or mines).

Method step description:

1. Researchers from INBO and Natuurpunt Studie define and document the appropriate sampling protocol for the target species.
2. Fieldwork is planned and coordinated by Natuurpunt Studie, using https://meetnetten.be.
3. Data are collected in the field by specialized volunteers, using the predefined sampling protocol.
4. Volunteers enter the collected data in https://meetnetten.be.
5. A custom SQL view is created in the meetnetten.be database to map the original data to Darwin Core as an event core and occurrence extension.
6. The Darwin Core views are connected to the INBO IPT and documented with metadata.
7. The dataset is published and registered with GBIF.

Additional Metadata