Meetnetten.be - Transects for fire salamanders in Flanders, Belgium

Sampling event
Latest version published by Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO) on Sep 10, 2024 Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO)

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Description

Meetnetten.be - Transects for fire salamanders in Flanders, Belgium is a sampling event dataset published by the Research Institute of Nature and Forest (INBO). It is part of the Meetnetten.be suite of monitoring networks for priority species in Flanders, in which data are collected at fixed locations using a standardized protocol (https://meetnetten.be). This dataset contains site counts for 1 priority species (Salamandra salamandra), as well as other amphibians observed during sampling. Here it is published as a standardized Darwin Core Archive and includes for each sampling event an eventID, date, location and sampling protocol (in the event core) and for each occurrence an occurrenceID, the number of recorded individuals, behaviour, sex, status, (present/absent) and scientific name (in the occurrence extension). Issues with the dataset can be reported at https://github.com/inbo/meetnetten-occurrences/issues

Generalized and/or withheld information: as these are sensitive priority species, location information is generalized to 1, 5 or 10 km Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) grid cells. Original locations are available upon request.

We have released this dataset to the public domain under a Creative Commons Zero waiver. We would appreciate it if you follow the INBO norms for data use (https://www.inbo.be/en/norms-data-use) when using the data. If you have any questions regarding this dataset, don't hesitate to contact us via the contact information provided in the metadata or via opendata@inbo.be.

For all published Meetnetten.be datasets, see https://www.gbif.org/dataset/search?project_id=meetnetten.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 818 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)
818
Occurrence 
3118

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, Speybroeck J, Brosens D, Westra T, Desmet P, Ledegen H, Van de Poel S, Pollet M (2024). Meetnetten.be - Transects for fire salamanders in Flanders, Belgium. Version 1.15. Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO). Samplingevent dataset. https://doi.org/10.15468/nbsk9h

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: bced6c7a-c7e0-40f7-b009-5f0478104716.  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; Fire salamander; freshwater; monitoring; priority species; Samplingevent

Contacts

Frederic Piesschaert
  • Originator
  • Point Of Contact
researcher
Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO)
BE
Jeroen Speybroeck
  • Originator
Researcher
Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO)
BE
Dimitri Brosens
  • Metadata Provider
  • User
Researcher
Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO)/ Belgian Biodiversity Platform
BE
Toon Westra
  • Originator
Researcher
Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO)
BE
Peter Desmet
  • Metadata Provider
  • Originator
Researcher
Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO)
BE
Hannes Ledegen
  • Originator
Researcher
Sam Van de Poel
  • Originator
Researcher
Marc Pollet
  • Originator
Research manager
Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO)
BE
Dimitri Brosens
  • Metadata Provider
  • User
researcher
Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO)/ Belgian Biodiversity Platform
BE

Geographic Coverage

Flanders, Belgium

Bounding Coordinates South West [50.67, 2.53], North East [51.51, 5.94]

Taxonomic Coverage

The target species for Meetnetten.be are listed at https://meetnetten.be/#group-1. Other salamanders observed during the sampling are also included. This dataset covers the fire salamander protocol, for which there is 1 target species.

Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Class Amphibia
Order Caudata
Species Salamandra salamandra

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 2016-01-01 / 2023-12-31

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.

Title Meetnetten.be
Identifier meetnetten.be
Funding Flemish Government
Study Area Description Flanders, Belgium
Design Description Each monitoring network consists of fixed sample locations in which target species are counted based on a standardized protocol. Data collection relies mainly on specialized volunteers, coordinated by the NGO Natuurpunt Studie. Fieldwork is planned and monitored with the web tool https://meetnetten.be, which is also used for entering the collected data.

The personnel involved in the project:

Frederic Piesschaert

Sampling Methods

Fire salamanders have to be counted along fixed transects of ca. 1 km. Transect counts are walked between August 15th and November 15th on nights with high humidity, and preferably at temperatures higher than 5°C. Animals are searched for by means of a flashlight (6 m to the left and right of the trail). Each transect must be visited at least twice a year. Sampling was done using the protocol described in De Bruyn et al. (2015), updated by Speybroeck et al. (2020), and explained to volunteers in Lewylle et al. (2017).

Study Extent Salamandra salamandra, the Fire salamander occurs mainly in old oak and beech forests, where the species reproduces in small brooks, pools and puddles.
Quality Control Data are collected using a predefined sampling protocol.

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 with an 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.

Bibliographic Citations

  1. De Bruyn L, Speybroeck J, Maes D, De Knijf G, Onkelinx T, Piesschaert F, Pollet M, Truyens P, Van Calster H, Westra T, Quataert P (2015). Monitoringsprotocol vuursalamander. Rapporten van het Instituut voor Natuur- en Bosonderzoek 2015 . Instituut voor Natuur- en Bosonderzoek, Brussel. INBO.R.2015.10186299
  2. Speybroeck J, Lewylle I. & H. Ledegen. 2017. Veldwerkhandleiding vuursalamander. Natuurpunt Studie, Mechelen https://www.natuurpunt.be/files/veldwerkhandleidingvuursalamanderpdf/download?token=mIOzg6r1
  3. Speybroeck J, De Bruyn L, Van de Poel S, Ledegen H, Westra T (2020). Monitoringsprotocol amfibieën en reptielen. Versie 2.0. Rapporten van het Instituut voor Natuur- en Bosonderzoek 2020 (22). Instituut voor Natuur- en Bosonderzoek, Brussel. doi.org/10.21436/inbor.17954118

Additional Metadata

Alternative Identifiers bced6c7a-c7e0-40f7-b009-5f0478104716
https://ipt.inbo.be/resource?r=meetnetten-vuursalamander-transect-occurrences