Author: Dimitri Brosens
Keywords: Occurrence, Observation

Invasive species - Fallopia japonica on river dikes along the river Zeeschelde, Rupel and Durme

Bart Vandevoorde^1, Sander Devisscher^2, Dimitri Brosens^3, Dimitri Brosens^4

1 Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO), Havenlaan 88 bus 73, Brussels, Belgium; 2 Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO), Havenlaan 88 bus 73, 1000, Brussels, Belgium; 3 Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO) / Belgian Biodiversity Platform, Havenlaan 88 bus 73, 1000, Brussels, Belgium; 4 Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO) / Belgian Biodiversity Platform, Havenlaan 88 bus 73, 1000, Brussels, Belgium

Corresponding author(s): Bart Vandevoorde (bart.vandevoorde@inbo.be)Sander Devisscher (sander.devisscher@inbo.be)Dimitri Brosens (dimitri.brosens@inbo.be), Dimitri Brosens (dimitri.brosens@inbo.be)

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Resource Citation

Vandevoorde B, Devisscher S, Brosens D (2017): Invasive species - Fallopia japonica on river dikes along the river Zeeschelde, Rupel and Durme. v1.9. Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO). Dataset/Occurrence. https://doi.org/10.15468/di2s6j https://doi.org/10.15468/di2s6j

Abstract

This dataset contains occurrence data on Fallopia japonica on river dikes along the Zeeschelde and its tributaries the Rupel and Durme (Belgium). The occurrence data is extracted from a more exhaustive (GIS layer) dataset, namely the  vegetation map of the river dikes.

Keywords: Occurrence, Observation

General description

Purpose: This dataset will be used for IAS management of Fallopia japonica on dikes near the River Durme, Rupel and Beneden Zeeschelde.
Additional information: 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 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/di2s6j) 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 published through GBIF: https://ipt.inbo.be/resource?r=invasive-fallopia-occurrences

Taxonomic coverage

General taxonomic coverage description: Fallopia japonica
Taxonomic ranks
Species: Fallopia japonica

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: Zeeschelde, Rupel, Durme
Coordinates: 50°54'21.6''N and 51°25'37.2''N Latitude; 3°36'54''E and 4°46'44.4''E Longitude 

Temporal coverage: 2014

Methods

Method step description: Layer data was imported in ArcGis, Point data for Fallopia was extracted
Study extent description: A vegetation map is made for dikes of the river Zeeschelde, Durme and Rupel. Five transversal zones are distinguished on the dikes: the base, landside, top on landside, top on riverside and riverside. These are mapped as 5 parallel lines with 10 m as the smallest unit. Shorter units of specific importance are mapped as a point. Each mapped unit has homogeneous vegetation and is designated to a certain vegetation type.

Besides grassland vegetation types also reed, tall herb vegetation, trees/shrub and Japanese Knotweed (Fallopia japonica) vegetation were distinguished. The mapped units (lines, points) of Japanese Knotweed were extracted of the vegetation map (GIS layer). 
This dataset only contains the Japanese knotweed occurrences. Based on the GIS layer point occurrences were generated. The data extracted from the transects and point occurrences have a coordinate uncertainty of 10 m.

This dataset only contains the Japanese knotweed occurrences.
Sampling description: vegatation mapping (points, lines)

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive Invasive species - Fallopia japonica on river dikes along the river Zeeschelde, Rupel and Durme
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: https://ipt.inbo.be/archive.do?r=invasive-fallopia-occurrences
Publication date of data: 2018-07-06
Language: English
Licences of use: Public Domain (CC0 1.0)

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2017-11-09
Hierarchy level: Dataset