Visherintroductie - Reintroduction of the fishes chub, dace, burbot, and brown trout in Flanders, Belgium

Tom Van den Neucker; Dimitri Brosens; Peter Desmet

doi:10.15468/dlglrp

Visherintroductie - Reintroduction of the fishes chub, dace, burbot, and brown trout in Flanders, Belgium

Citation

Van den Neucker T, Brosens D, Desmet P (2021). Visherintroductie - Reintroduction of the fishes chub, dace, burbot, and brown trout in Flanders, Belgium. Version 14.5. Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO). Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/dlglrp accessed via GBIF.org on 2022-05-22.

Description

Visherintroductie - Reintroduction of the fishes chub, dace, burbot, and brown trout in Flanders, Belgium is a species occurrence dataset published by the Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO). The dataset contains over 3,300 fish occurrences sampled between 2008 and 2011 from 18 watercourses. The dataset includes 20 fish species. The data are collected to evaluate the success of the reintroduction of the fishes chub, dace, burbot and brown trout in Flanders. The captured numbers were compared with the expected numbers, which were determined in previous studies based on habitat suitability models. The dataset also includes the length and mass of the caught fishes. Issues with the dataset can be reported at https://github.com/LifeWatchINBO/data-publication/tree/master/datasets/visherintroductie-occurrences

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/dlglrp) 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.

Sampling Description

Study Extent

18 watercourses in Flanders, Belgium were sampled to evaluate the success of reintroduction: Abeek, Asbeek, Balengracht, Bosbeek, Grote nete, Hanskenselsloop, Heiloop, Ijsse, Itterbeek, Laan, Maarkebeek, meer van Rotselaar (lake), Molenbeek, Scherpenbergloop, Terkleppebeek, Vleterbeek, Zeeploop, and Zwalm.

Sampling

Electrofishing was used to measure the reintroduction success. The number of individuals was recorded, as well fork length (tip of snout to fork of tail in millimeter) and weight (gram). The water temperature was measured in °C.

Quality Control

All records are validated.

Method steps

Electrofishing was used to sample the trajectories.

Taxonomic Coverages

All species in this dataset are fishes (Actinopterygii, Petromyzontida), with a sampling focus on European chub (Leuciscus cephalus), burbot (Lota lota), common dace (Leuciscus leuciscus) and brown trout (Salmo trutta). The top 3 recorded species are Leuciscus leuciscus (34%), Leuciscus cephalus (24%), and Lota lota (18%).

Actinopterygii
common name: ray-finned fishes rank: class
Squalius cephalus
common name: European chub rank: species
Ameiurus nebulosus
common name: brown bullhead rank: species
Anguilla anguilla
common name: European eel rank: species
Cobitis taenia
common name: spined loach rank: species
Esox lucius
common name: northern pike rank: species
Gasterosteus aculeatus
common name: three-spined stickleback rank: species
Gobio gobio
common name: gudeon rank: species
Lampetra planeri
common name: European brook lamprey rank: species
Lepomis gibbosus
common name: pumpkinseed rank: species
Leuciscus cephalus
common name: European chub rank: species
Leuciscus idus
common name: ide rank: species
Leuciscus leuciscus
common name: common dace rank: species
Lota lota
common name: burbot rank: species
Oncorhynchus mykiss
common name: rainbow trout rank: species
Perca fluviatilis
common name: European perch rank: species
Pseudorasbora parva
common name: stone moroko rank: species
Pungitius pungitius
common name: ninespine stickleback rank: species
Rutilus rutilus
common name: common roach rank: species
Salmo trutta
common name: brown trout rank: species
Stizostedion lucioperca
common name: zander rank: species
Umbra pygmaea
common name: eastern mudminnow rank: species
Petromyzontida
rank: class
Animalia
common name: animals rank: kingdom

Geographic Coverages

Watercourses in Flanders, Belgium.

Bibliographic Citations

Van den Neucker, T. et al. (2010). Wetenschappelijke ondersteuning herstelprogramma’s kopvoorn, serpeling, kwabaal en beekforel in 2009. Rapporten van het Instituut voor Natuur- en Bosonderzoek, INBO.R.2010.64. Instituut voor Natuur- en Bosonderzoek (INBO): Brussel. 182 pp. -

Contacts

Tom Van den Neucker
originator
BE
email: tom.vandenneucker@inbo.be

Dimitri Brosens
originator
Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO) / Belgian Biodiversity Platform
BE
email: dimitri.brosens@inbo.be
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0846-9116

Peter Desmet
originator
Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO)
BE
email: peter.desmet@inbo.be
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8442-8025

Tom Van den Neucker
metadata author
Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO)
BE
email: tom.vandenneucker@inbo.be

Dimitri Brosens
metadata author
Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO) / Belgian Biodiversity Platform
BE
email: dimitri.brosens@inbo.be
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0846-9116

Peter Desmet
metadata author
Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO)
BE
email: peter.desmet@inbo.be
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8442-8025

Tom Van den Neucker
administrative point of contact
Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO)
BE
email: tom.vandenneucker@inbo.be