Monitoring of fishes and crustaceans by Province East Flanders in Flanders, Belgium

Filip Mahieu1, Pieter Boets1, Mechtild Zoeter Vanpoucke2, Lien Reyserhove3, Damiano Oldoni3

1 Province East Flanders, , Belgium; 2 Province East-Flanders, , Belgium; 3 Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO), , Belgium

Corresponding author(s): Filip Mahieu (filip.mahieu@oost-vlaanderen.be)Pieter Boets (pieter.boets@oost-vlaanderen.be)Mechtild Zoeter Vanpoucke (mechtild.zoeter.vanpoucke@oost-vlaanderen.be)Lien Reyserhove (lien.reyserhove@inbo.be)Damiano Oldoni (damiano.oldoni@inbo.be)

Received {date}; Revised {date}; Accepted {date}; Published {date}

Citation: Combination of authors, year of data paper publication (in parentheses), Title, Journal Name, Volume, Issue number (in parentheses), and doi of the data paper.

Resource Citation

Mahieu F, Boets P, Zoeter Vanpoucke M, Reyserhove L, Oldoni D (2024). Monitoring of fishes and crustaceans by Province East Flanders in Flanders, Belgium. Version 1.68. Province East Flanders. Samplingevent dataset. https://ipt.inbo.be/resource?r=pov-fishes-occurrences&v=1.68

Abstract

The Monitoring of fishes and crustaceans by Province East Flanders in Flanders, Belgium is an sampling event dataset published by the Province East Flanders (Belgium). The data are collected from targeted monitoring on non-navigable watercourses, from 1985 onwards. Earlier collected data was digitized afterwards, newly collected data is digitized immediately. Only non-threatened species are presented in this dataset. The data are published as a standardized Darwin Core Archive and includes for each occurrence record an occurrenceID, date, location, quantification, length, weight where available and scientific name. Also the physico-chemical parameters of the watercourses at that moment are given when available. Issues with the dataset can be reported at https://github.com/riparias/pov-fishes-occurrences/issues
We have released this dataset to the public domain under a Creative Commons Attribution License. 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.

Keywords: Samplingevent, Fishes, crustacea, Invasive alien species, Province East-Flanders, LIFE RIPARIAS

Project details

Project title: Reaching Integrated and Prompt Action in Response to Invasive Alien Species (LIFE RIPARIAS)
Personnel: Tim Adriaens, Etienne Branquart, Peter Desmet, Dido Gosse, Jérémie Guyon, Damiano Oldoni, Lien Reyserhove, Sonia Vanderhoeven, Xavier Vermeersch
Funding: LIFE RIPARIAS is co-funded by the three Belgian regions and the European Union in the framework of the LIFE Programme (LIFE19 NAT/BE/000953). It is running from 2021 to 2026.
Study area descriptions/descriptor: Dijle, Mark and Zenne river basin of the Scheldt district, Belgium.
Design description: LIFE RIPARIAS focuses on aquatic and riparian plants as well as crayfish species located in the Dijle, Mark and Zenne river basin of the Scheldt district in Belgium. Cumulative observation data collected in 2000-2015, completed by data gathered from field surveillance in 2021-2022, will provide the baseline to design management objectives and define quantitative targets.

Data published through GBIF: https://ipt.inbo.be/resource?r=pov-fishes-occurrences

Taxonomic coverage

General taxonomic coverage description: Fishes and crustacea
Taxonomic ranks
Phylum: Crustacea
Class: Actinopterygii

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: Flanders
Coordinates: 50°40'12''N and 51°30'36''N Latitude; 2°31'48''E and 5°56'24''E Longitude 

Temporal coverage: January 1, 1985 - November 7, 2022

Methods

Method step description: 
- . 	The source data for this standardized occurrence dataset is retrieved from a web feature service (WFS)
- . 	This data file was uploaded to a github repository (https://github.com/riparias/pov-fishes-occurrences/blob/main/data/raw/)
- . 	We developed a RMarkdown (https://github.com/riparias/pov-fishes-occurrences/blob/main/src/dwc_mapping.Rmd) and SQL (https://github.com/riparias/pov-fishes-occurrences/tree/main/sql) script to document and perform the transformation of the data to Darwin Core,which includes transforming the data to an event core (https://rs.gbif.org/core/dwc_event_2022-02-02.xml), an occurrence extension (https://rs.gbif.org/core/dwc_occurrence_2022-02-02.xml) and a measurement or facts extension (https://rs.gbif.org/extension/dwc/measurements_or_facts_2022-02-02.xml)
- . 	The resulting Darwin Core data files are uploaded to the INBO IPT (https://ipt.inbo.be) and documented with metadata.
- . 	The dataset is published and registered with GBIF.
Study extent description: Flanders
Sampling description: Targeted monitoring
Quality control description: All inventarisations are performed and controlled by people with sufficient biological knowledge.

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive Monitoring of fishes and crustaceans by Province East Flanders in Flanders, Belgium
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: https://ipt.inbo.be/archive.do?r=pov-fishes-occurrences
Publication date of data: 2024-02-19
Language: English
Licences of use: Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2022-11-20
Hierarchy level: Dataset