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

Bart Vandevoorde; Sander Devisscher; Dimitri Brosens

doi:10.15468/di2s6j

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

Citation

Vandevoorde B, Devisscher S, Brosens D (2018). Invasive species - Fallopia japonica on river dikes along the river Zeeschelde, Rupel and Durme. Version 1.8. Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO). Occurrence Dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/di2s6j accessed via GBIF.org on 2018-04-20.

Description

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.

Purpose

This dataset will be used for IAS management of Fallopia japonica on dikes near the River Durme, Rupel and Beneden Zeeschelde.

Sampling Description

Study Extent

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

vegatation mapping (points, lines)

Method steps

Layer data was imported in ArcGis, Point data for Fallopia was extracted

Additional info

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 (http://doi.org/*******) 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.

Taxonomic Coverages

Fallopia japonica

Fallopia japonica
rank: species

Geographic Coverages

Zeeschelde, Rupel, Durme

Bibliographic Citations

Contacts

Bart Vandevoorde
originator
position: Researcher
Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO)
Havenlaan 88 bus 73
Brussels
Brussel Capital Region
BE
email: bart.vandevoorde@inbo.be

Sander Devisscher
originator
Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO)
Havenlaan 88 bus 73
Brussels
1000
Brussels Capital Region
BE
email: sander.devisscher@inbo.be

Dimitri Brosens
originator
position: Biodiversity Research Liaison Officer
Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO) / Belgian Biodiversity Platform
Havenlaan 88 bus 73
Brussels
1000
Brussels Capital Region
BE
email: dimitri.brosens@inbo.be
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0846-9116

Dimitri Brosens
metadata author
position: Biodiversity Research Liaison Officer
Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO) / Belgian Biodiversity Platform
Havenlaan 88 bus 73
Brussels
1000
Brussels
BE
email: dimitri.brosens@inbo.be
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0846-9116

user
Waterwegen & Zeekanaal
Oostdijk 110
Willebroek
Antwerpen
BE
email: info@wenz.be

Bart Vandevoorde
administrative point of contact
position: Researcher
Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO)
Havenlaan 88 bus 73
Brussels
100
Brussels Capital Region
BE
email: bart.vandevoorde@inbo.be

Sander Devisscher
administrative point of contact
Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO)
Havenlaan 88 bus 73
Brussels
1000
Brussels Capital Region
BE
email: sander.devisscher@inbo.be