Waarnemingen.be - Non-native plant occurrences in Flanders and the Brussels Capital Region, Belgium

Wouter Vanreusel1, Rutger Barendse2, Roosmarijn Steeman1, Karin Gielen1, Kristijn Swinnen1, Peter Desmet3, Marc Herremans1

1 Natuurpunt Studie, , Belgium; 2 Plantenwerkgroep Genk, , Belgium; 3 Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO), , Belgium

Corresponding author(s): Wouter Vanreusel (wouter.vanreusel@natuurpunt.be)Rutger Barendse (rutger.barendse@telenet.be)Roosmarijn Steeman (roosmarijn.steeman@natuurpunt.be)Karin Gielen (karin.gielen@natuurpunt.be)Kristijn Swinnen (kristijn.swinnen@natuurpunt.be)Peter Desmet (peter.desmet@inbo.be)Marc Herremans (marc.herremans@natuurpunt.be)

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Resource Citation

Vanreusel W, Barendse R, Steeman R, Gielen K, Swinnen K, Desmet P, Herremans M, all working groups, species validators and observers (2021): Waarnemingen.be - Non-native plant occurrences in Flanders and the Brussels Capital Region, Belgium. v1.24. Natuurpunt. Dataset/Occurrence. https://doi.org/10.15468/smdvdo https://doi.org/10.15468/smdvdo

Abstract

Waarnemingen.be - Non-native plant occurrences in Flanders and the Brussels Capital Region, Belgium is a species occurrence dataset published by Natuurpunt and described (v1.2) in Swinnen et al. (2018, https://doi.org/10.3391/bir.2018.7.3.17). The dataset contains over 422,000 occurrences of 1,596 non-native plant, algae and fungi species, recorded by volunteers (citizen scientists), mainly since 2008. The occurrences are derived from the database http://www.waarnemingen.be, hosted at the nature conservation NGO Natuurpunt in collaboration with Stichting Natuurinformatie. Standardized information regarding the occurrence's sex, reproductiveCondition, behavior, occurrenceRemarks, and samplingProtocol is included as well.
Generalized and/or withheld information: since dataset v1.4 location information is no longer generalized to grid cells, but provided as the original decimalLatitude/Longitude and coordinateUncertaintyInMeters for all occurrences. Observer name, toponyms, and photographs are not included in the published dataset, but are known in the source database.
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.natuurpunt.be/normen-voor-datagebruik) and provide a link to the original dataset (https://doi.org/10.15468/smdvdo) 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 provide more information or know how you have used the data, so please contact us via the contact information provided in the metadata or natuurdata@natuurpunt.be.
The publication of this dataset is supported by INBO and funded by Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO) as part of the Belgian contribution to LifeWatch.

Keywords: Occurrence, Observation, non-native species, invasive species, exotic species, plants, Chromista, Fungi, distribution, observations, citizen science, Natuurpunt, waarnemingen.be, observation.org

Data published through GBIF: https://ipt.inbo.be/resource?r=planten-exoten-natuurpunt-occurrences

Taxonomic coverage

General taxonomic coverage description: The dataset contains all plant, algae and fungi taxa recorded in Flanders and the Brussels Capital Region which have the status naturalized, naturalizing, exotic, or incidental import in waarnemingen.be. This includes angiosperms (flowering plants), gymnosperms, ferns and allies, algae, mosses, lichens and fungi.
Taxonomic ranks
Kingdom: Plantae, Fungi, Chromista
Common names: plants, mushrooms

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: Flanders and the Brussels Capital Region. These regions are situated in the north of Belgium and cover an area of 13,522 km² and 162 km² respectively (13,684 km² in total or 45% of the Belgian territory). Flanders is largely covered by agricultural land and urban areas while the Brussels Capital Region is mainly urban.
Coordinates: 50°40'12''N and 51°30'36''N Latitude; 2°31'48''E and 5°56'24''E Longitude 

Temporal coverage: June 30, 1862 - December 31, 2020

Methods

Method step description: Not provided.
Study extent description: See geographic coverage.
Sampling description: The observations (species, date, location, observer) were recorded by volunteers (citizen scientists) at http://www.waarnemingen.be. The dataset also includes historical records and datasets imported in waarnemingen.be. The dataset is a mixture of presence-only data, checklists and monitoring data.
Quality control description: Recorded data are constantly verified by a group of botanical experts (including professional botanists) taking collection specimens, the observer’s species knowledge, added photographs and known species list of locations into account. The validation procedure from waarnemingen.be consists of an interactive procedure in which observers can be asked for additional information by a team of validators, after which the validator manually adds a validation status. Records that are not manually validated are additionally checked by an automated validation procedure that takes into account the number of manually validated observations within a specified date and distance range. The validation status is indicated in the field identificationVerificationStatus.

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive Waarnemingen.be - Non-native plant occurrences in Flanders and the Brussels Capital Region, Belgium
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: https://ipt.inbo.be/archive.do?r=planten-exoten-natuurpunt-occurrences
Publication date of data: 2021-01-19
Language: English
Licences of use: Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 License

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2016-10-17
Hierarchy level: Dataset

References
Swinnen K, Vercayie D, Vanreusel W, Barendse R, Boers K, Bogaert J, Dekeukeleire D, Driessens G, Dupriez P, Jooris R, Steeman R, Van Asten K, Van Den Neucker T, Van Dorsselaer P, Van Vooren P, Wysmantel N, Gielen K, Desmet P, Herremans M, all working groups, species validators and recorders Waarnemingen.be (2018) Waarnemingen.be – Non-native plant and animal occurrences in Flanders and the Brussels Capital Region, Belgium. BioInvasions Records 7(3): 335–342. https://doi.org/10.3391/bir.2018.7.3.17