RATO - daily operations commissioned by the province East Flanders, Belgium
Citation
Stefens A, Van Moer K, Reyserhove L, Oldoni D (2023). RATO - daily operations commissioned by the province East Flanders, Belgium. Version 1.50. RATO vzw. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/fw2rbx accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-12-05.Description
The RATO - daily operations commissioned by the Province East Flanders, Belgium dataset is an event dataset published by RATO. The dataset includes data on management actions on invasive alien species and nuisance species, predominantly in the province of East Flanders and from 2021 onwards. Here it is published as a standardized Darwin Core Archive and includes for each occurrence record an occurrenceID, date, location, scientific name, sampling protocol, sampling effort and the number of recorded individuals or biomass. Issues with the dataset can be reported at https://github.com/riparias/rato-occurrences/issues.
We have released this dataset to the public domain under a Creative Commons Zero waiver. 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.
This dataset was published as open data for the LIFE RIPARIAS project (Reaching Integrated and Prompt Action in Response to Invasive Alien Species https://www.riparias.be/), with technical support provided by the Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO).
Sampling Description
Method steps
- A WFS export of the database was generated by RATO and uploaded to a GitHub repository (https://github.com/riparias/rato-occurrences/tree/master/data/raw).
- We developed a Rmarkdown script to document and perform the transformation of the data to Darwin Core, which includes the following steps:
- Perform some basic data cleaning of the raw data.
- Create an occurrence core file (http://rs.gbif.org/core/dwc_occurrence_2015-07-02.xml)
- The Darwin Core data file is uploaded to the INBO IPT and documented with metadata.
- The dataset is published and registered with GBIF.
Taxonomic Coverages
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Animaliacommon name: animals rank: kingdom
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Plantaecommon name: plants rank: kingdom
Geographic Coverages
Bibliographic Citations
Contacts
Anke Stefensoriginator
Rattenbestrijding Oost-Vlaanderen vzw (RATO vzw)
BE
email: rato@oost-vlaanderen.be
Karel Van Moer
originator
Rattenbestrijding Oost-Vlaanderen vzw (RATO vzw)
BE
email: rato@oost-vlaanderen.be
Lien Reyserhove
originator
Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO)
BE
email: lien.reyserhove@inbo.be
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7484-9267
Damiano Oldoni
originator
Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO)
email: damiano.oldoni@inbo.be
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3445-7562
Anke Stefens
metadata author
Rattenbestrijding Oost-Vlaanderen vzw (RATO vzw)
BE
email: rato@oost-vlaanderen.be
Anke Stefens
administrative point of contact
Rattenbestrijding Oost-Vlaanderen vzw (RATO vzw)
BE
email: rato@oost-vlaanderen.be