Waarnemingen.be - Non-native plant occurrences in Flanders and the Brussels Capital Region, Belgium
Citation
Vanreusel W, Barendse R, Steeman R, Gielen K, Swinnen K, Desmet P, Herremans M (2024). Waarnemingen.be - Non-native plant occurrences in Flanders and the Brussels Capital Region, Belgium. Version 1.143. Natuurpunt. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/smdvdo accessed via GBIF.org on 2024-12-13.Description
Waarnemingen.be - Non-native plant occurrences in Flanders and the Brussels Capital Region, Belgium is a species occurrence dataset published by Natuurpunt and described (v1.2) in Swinnen et al. (2018, https://doi.org/10.3391/bir.2018.7.3.17). The dataset contains over 700,000 occurrences of non-native plant, algae and fungi species, recorded by volunteers (citizen scientists), mainly since 2008. The occurrences are derived from the database http://www.waarnemingen.be, hosted at the nature conservation NGO Natuurpunt in collaboration with Stichting Natuurinformatie. Standardized information regarding the occurrence's sex, reproductiveCondition, behavior, occurrenceRemarks, and samplingProtocol is included as well.
Generalized and/or withheld information: since dataset v1.4 location information is no longer generalized to grid cells, but provided as the original decimalLatitude/Longitude and coordinateUncertaintyInMeters for all occurrences. Observer name, toponyms, and photographs are not included in the published dataset, but are known in the source database.
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 however, if you read and follow these norms for data use (http://www.natuurpunt.be/normen-voor-datagebruik) and provide a link to the original dataset (https://doi.org/10.15468/smdvdo) 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 provide more information or know how you have used the data, so please contact us via the contact information provided in the metadata or natuurdata@natuurpunt.be.
The publication of this dataset is supported by INBO and funded by Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO) as part of the Belgian contribution to LifeWatch.
Sampling Description
Study Extent
See geographic coverage.Sampling
The observations (species, date, location, observer) were recorded by volunteers (citizen scientists) at http://www.waarnemingen.be. The dataset also includes historical records and datasets imported in waarnemingen.be. The dataset is a mixture of presence-only data, checklists and monitoring data.Quality Control
Recorded data are constantly verified by a group of botanical experts (including professional botanists) taking collection specimens, the observer’s species knowledge, added photographs and known species list of locations into account. The validation procedure from waarnemingen.be consists of an interactive procedure in which observers can be asked for additional information by a team of validators, after which the validator manually adds a validation status. Records that are not manually validated are additionally checked by an automated validation procedure that takes into account the number of manually validated observations within a specified date and distance range. The validation status is indicated in the field identificationVerificationStatus.Method steps
- Not provided.
Taxonomic Coverages
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Plantaecommon name: plants rank: kingdom
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Fungicommon name: mushrooms rank: kingdom
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Chromistarank: kingdom
Geographic Coverages
Bibliographic Citations
- Swinnen K, Vercayie D, Vanreusel W, Barendse R, Boers K, Bogaert J, Dekeukeleire D, Driessens G, Dupriez P, Jooris R, Steeman R, Van Asten K, Van Den Neucker T, Van Dorsselaer P, Van Vooren P, Wysmantel N, Gielen K, Desmet P, Herremans M, all working groups, species validators and recorders Waarnemingen.be (2018) Waarnemingen.be – Non-native plant and animal occurrences in Flanders and the Brussels Capital Region, Belgium. BioInvasions Records 7(3): 335–342. https://doi.org/10.3391/bir.2018.7.3.17 -
Contacts
Wouter Vanreuseloriginator
Natuurpunt Studie
BE
email: wouter.vanreusel@natuurpunt.be
homepage: http://www.natuurpunt.be
Rutger Barendse
originator
Plantenwerkgroep Genk
BE
email: rutger.barendse@telenet.be
homepage: https://www.natuurpunt.be/afdelingen/plantenwerkgroep-genk
Roosmarijn Steeman
originator
Natuurpunt Studie
BE
email: roosmarijn.steeman@natuurpunt.be
homepage: http://www.natuurpunt.be
Karin Gielen
originator
Natuurpunt Studie
BE
email: karin.gielen@natuurpunt.be
homepage: http://www.natuurpunt.be
Kristijn Swinnen
originator
Natuurpunt Studie
BE
email: kristijn.swinnen@natuurpunt.be
homepage: http://www.natuurpunt.be
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1910-9247
Peter Desmet
originator
Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO)
BE
email: peter.desmet@inbo.be
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8442-8025
Marc Herremans
originator
Natuurpunt Studie
BE
email: marc.herremans@natuurpunt.be
homepage: http://www.natuurpunt.be
originator
all working groups, species validators and observers
BE
homepage: http://www.waarnemingen.be
Wouter Vanreusel
metadata author
Natuurpunt Studie
BE
email: wouter.vanreusel@natuurpunt.be
homepage: http://www.natuurpunt.be
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
Kristijn Swinnen
metadata author
Natuurpunt Studie
BE
email: kristijn.swinnen@natuurpunt.be
homepage: http://www.natuurpunt.be
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1910-9247
Marc Herremans
administrative point of contact
Natuurpunt Studie
BE
email: marc.herremans@natuurpunt.be
homepage: http://www.natuurpunt.be