Waarnemingen.be – Plant occurrences in Flanders and the Brussels Capital Region, Belgium

By

Steeman, Roosmarijn
Vanreusel, Wouter, 1974-
Barendse, Rutger
Verloove, Filip
Wysmantel, Nico
Bussche, Walter van den
Gyselinck, Thomas
Hendrickx, Pieter
Zwaenepoel, Arnout, 1952-
Vooren, Pierre van
Jacobs, Steven
Desmet, Peter
Gielen, Karin
Herremans, Marc
Swinnen, Kristijn

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2017

Original Publication

PhytoKeys

Volume

85

Pages

1-10

Subjects

Citizen science , Distribution , native , observation , waarnemingen.be

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia, Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers [2010]-

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.85.14925

 

Abstract

Waarnemingen.be - Plant occurrences in Flanders and the Brussels Capital Region, Belgium is a species occurrence dataset published by Natuurpunt. The dataset contains almost 1.2 million plant occurrences of 1,222 native vascular plant species, mostly recorded by volunteers (citizen scientists), mainly since 2008. The occurrences are derived from the database http://www.waarnemingen.be, hosted by Stichting Natuurinformatie and managed by the nature conservation NGO Natuurpunt. Together with the datasets Florabank1 (Van Landuyt and Brosens 2017) and the Belgian IFBL (Instituut voor Floristiek van België en Luxemburg) Flora Checklists (Van Landuyt and Noé 2015), the dataset represents the most complete overview of indigenous plants in Flanders and the Brussels Capital Region.