PINK - Amphibia monitoring for the permanent surveillance of coastal areas in Flanders, Belgium

Sampling event
Latest version published by Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO) on Apr 13, 2021 Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO)
Publication date:
13 April 2021
License:
CC0 1.0

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Description

'PINK - Amphibia monitoring for the permanent surveillance of coastal areas in Flanders, Belgium.' is a sample based species occurrence dataset published by the Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO). The dataset contains over 1900 occurrences sampled between 2007-04-03 and 2016-07-05 from 243 ponds near the Belgian coast. The dataset includes over 10 species, collected in the PINK Amphibia subset. The monitoring of these coastal areas is needed to secure the nature conservation at the Belgian coast. Issues with the dataset can be reported at https://github.com/LifeWatchINBO/dataset-pink-amphibia-events.

The data are collected for the project PINK (Permanente Inventarisatie van de Natuurreservaten aan de Kust), which was commissioned by the Agency for Nature and Forest in 2007. The project started with the aim of mapping the natural values on the coast in a more systematic way. A first 3-year phase (PINK I) ran from 2008 to 2010, in which the methodology was set up and an initial assessment was conducted. A second phase (PINK II) ran from 2012 to 2014, which was a continuation of the main components of PINK I, with special attention for invasive species and grasshoppers. A third phase (PINK III) is running from 2014 to 2018. This dataset contains mainly Amphibia occurrences observed during PINK I and PINK II.

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 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 (https://doi.org/complete) 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, opendata@inbo.be or https://twitter.com/LifeWatchINBO.

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 100 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)
100
Occurrence 
1974

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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How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Provoost S (2021): PINK - Amphibia monitoring for the permanent surveillance of coastal areas in Flanders, Belgium. v1.9. Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO). Dataset/Samplingevent. https://ipt.inbo.be/resource?r=pink-amphibia-events&v=1.9

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: fca6d6a7-c13d-4f6e-96e1-0513e30b816c.  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; survey; coast; dunes; vertebrates; amphibians; Samplingevent

Contacts

Sam Provoost
  • Originator
  • Point Of Contact
Researcher
INBO
Kliniekstraat
1070 Brussels
Brussels Capital Region
BE
Dimitri Brosens
  • Metadata Provider
Data liaison officer
Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO)
Kliniekstraat
1070 Brussels
Brussels Capital Region
BE

Geographic Coverage

Ponds in coastal areas in Flanders, Belgium.

Bounding Coordinates South West [51.04, 2.51], North East [51.38, 3.38]

Taxonomic Coverage

Most of the species in this dataset are amphibians. The taxa focused upon are Triturus cristatus, Epidalea calamita and Hyla arborea. (EU annex IV species).

Class Amphibia (Amphibians), Actinopterygii, Reptilia
Order Ranidae

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 2007-04-03 / 2016-07-15

Project Data

No Description available

Title PINK I & PINK II: Permanente Inventarisatie van de Natuurreservaten aan de Kust
Identifier ANB/WVL/2011/003 and AN/CKZ/2006/HVN/TWOL/PINK
Funding Agentschap voor Natuur en Bos (ANB)
Study Area Description Ponds in coastal areas near the Belgian coast

The personnel involved in the project:

Sam Provoost

Sampling Methods

The inventory of amphibians follows the guidelines of the pond inventory project coordinated by HYLA, LIKONA and INBO (Bauwens, 2006). Each pond was visited in three periods. During the first two periods, in April and May, pods are used. The visits consist of two fieldwork days: the first day, the pods are placed, the second day emptied and taken back. The content is emptied into a plastic bin filled with pool water so that species and gender of each of the captured specimen can be identified before release. The number of pods depends on the size of the pond. By default, three pods per pool are used. During each visit, we also look at the appearance of larvae or eggs and listened to any calling adults. The second day of the second visit also a scoop net was used to detect larvae. During the third visit in June, only the net is used. To get a good view of the occurrence of larvae, at least 1/3 of the surface of the pool should be sampled.

Study Extent Near the coastal and dunes of Belgium about 300 ponds and open waters could be found.
Quality Control All records are validated by experts.

Method step description:

  1. 1. Practical work 2. Validation 3. Research 4. Publication 5. Data Publication

Bibliographic Citations

  1. Provoost S, Van Gompel W, Feys S, Vercruysse W, Packet J, Van Lierop F, Adams Y en Denys L (2010). Permanente Inventarisatie van de Natuurreservaten aan de Kust. Eindrapport periode 2007-2010. Rapporten van het Instituut voor Natuur- en Bosonderzoek 2010 (19). Instituut voor Natuur- en Bosonderzoek, Brussel. https://www.vlaanderen.be/nl/publicaties/detail/permanente-inventarisatie-van-de-natuurreservaten-aan-de-kust
  2. Provoost S, Van Gompel W, Vercruysse E, Packet J en Denys L (2015). Permanente Inventarisatie van de Natuurreservaten aan de Kust, PINK II. Eindrapport periode 2012-2014. Rapporten van het Instituut voor Natuur- en Bosonderzoek 2015 (8890955). Instituut voor Natuur- en Bosonderzoek, Brussel. https://www.vlaanderen.be/nl/publicaties/detail/permanente-inventarisatie-van-de-natuurreservaten-aan-de-kust-pink-ii-1
  3. Bauwens D., Jooris R., Verbelen D. & Dochy O., 2006. Poelen en amfibieën in West-Vlaanderen. Resultaten van een grootschalig poelenonderzoek door vrijwilligers in 2000-2005. Provincie WestVlaanderen, Brugge, i.s.m. Instituut voor Natuur en Bosonderzoek, Brussel en Hyla, amfibieën- en reptielenwerkgroep van Natuurpunt, Mechelen.

Additional Metadata

Purpose The PINK data are collected in order to to map biodiversity values in nature reserves in coastal areas. This dataset contains the Amphibia subset.
Alternative Identifiers fca6d6a7-c13d-4f6e-96e1-0513e30b816c
https://ipt.inbo.be/resource?r=pink-amphibia-events