This is a test site. The production site with full data is available at GBIF.org
{{nav.loginGreeting}}
  • Get data
      • Occurrences
      • GBIF API
      • Species
      • Datasets
      • Occurrence snapshots
      • Hosted portals
      • Trends
  • How-to
    • Share data

      • Quick-start guide
      • Dataset classes
      • Data hosting
      • Standards
      • Become a publisher
      • Data quality
      • Data papers
    • Use data

      • Featured data use
      • Citation guidelines
      • GBIF citations
      • Citation widget
      • Guides and documentation
  • Tools
    • Publishing

      • IPT
      • Data validator
      • GeoPick
      • New data model
      • GRSciColl
      • Suggest a dataset
      • Metabarcoding data toolkit
    • Data access and use

      • Hosted portals
      • Scientific collections
      • Data processing
      • Derived datasets
      • rgbif
      • pygbif
      • MAXENT
      • Tools catalogue
    • GBIF labs

      • Species matching
      • Name parser
      • Sequence ID
      • Relative observation trends
      • GBIF data blog
  • Community
    • Network

      • Participant network
      • Nodes
      • Publishers
      • Network contacts
      • Community forum
      • alliance for biodiversity knowledge
    • Volunteers

      • Mentors
      • Ambassadors
      • Translators
      • Citizen scientists
    • Activities

      • Capacity development
      • Programmes & projects
      • Training and learning resources
      • Data Use Club
      • Living Atlases
  • About
    • Inside GBIF

      • What is GBIF?
      • Become a member
      • Governance
      • Strategic framework
      • Work Programme
      • Funders
      • Partnerships
      • Release notes
      • Contacts
    • News & outreach

      • News
      • Subscribe
      • Events
      • Awards
      • Science Review
      • Data use
      • Thematic communities
  • User profile

FLORIVON

Dataset homepage

Citation

Sparrius L (2025). FLORIVON. FLORON Plant Conservation Netherlands. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/ke2ody accessed via GBIF.org on 2025-06-24.

Description

Observations of vascular plants by botanists between 1902 and 1950 and a small number of published records and specimen data. Data have been collected in 1.3 x 1.01 km grid squares. The entire country of the Netherlands was surveyed.

Purpose

The data was collected for the publication of the Atlas Nederlandse Flora (published between 1980 and 1989). Data will now be used to complement the flora datasets maintained by FLORON in the National Database Flora and Fauna.

Sampling Description

Study Extent

The survey consisted of single visits of a half to one day in map squares of approximately 1.3 x 1.01 km until most of the country had been sampled.

Sampling

During single visits of a half to one day all vascular plants were registered on a species list.

Quality Control

Older nomenclature has been converted to newer nomenclature (Heukels' flora 2005). Taxa that have been lumped in the past were split (where possible) if enough information has been provided, such as names used by well-known observers and their field notes. This has been done for e.g. Thymus serpyllum/pulegioides and Scrophularia auriculata s.l.

Method steps

  1. Data entry using Turboveg with adapted taxon lists. Names en taxon numbers follow Prodromus Florae Batavae.
  2. Conversion of taxon names to currently accepted names. We use 'taxon combinations' if lumped taxa were recorded.
  3. Automated data validation against generalized distribution maps of the Atlas Nederlandse Flora, which is an edited abstraction of the current dataset. Further automated data validation using matches on bordering grid cells. Manual validation by an expert for 17427 remaining observations.
  4. Calculation of grid cell centroids and conversion to a MySQL database for publication in the IPT.

Additional info

Naturalis Biodiversity Center (Leiden) is hosting the physical archive with field forms and notes.

Taxonomic Coverages

All vascular plants
  1. Plantae
    common name: Plants rank: kingdom

Geographic Coverages

The Netherlands

Bibliographic Citations

  1. Sparrius LB, van Heeswijk J, Dirkse GM, Verhofstad MJJM (2019) The FLORIVON flora survey in the Netherlands between 1902 and 1950. PhytoKeys 135: 11-20. - https://doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.135.30069

Contacts

Laurens Sparrius
originator
position: database administrator
FLORON Plant Conservation Netherlands
Toernooiveld 1
Nijmegen
6525 ED
NL
email: sparrius@floron.nl
homepage: http://www.floron.nl
userId: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4925-9289
Laurens Sparrius
metadata author
position: database administrator
FLORON Plant Conservation Netherlands
Toernooiveld 1
Nijmegen
6525 ED
NL
email: sparrius@floron.nl
homepage: http://www.floron.nl
userId: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4925-9289
Laurens Sparrius
administrative point of contact
position: database administrator
FLORON Plant Conservation Netherlands
Toernooiveld 1
Nijmegen
6525 ED
NL
email: sparrius@floron.nl
homepage: http://www.floron.nl
userId: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4925-9289
What is GBIF? API FAQ Newsletter Privacy Terms and agreements Citation Code of Conduct Acknowledgements
Contact GBIF Secretariat Universitetsparken 15 DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø Denmark
GBIF is a Global Core Biodata Resource