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

Roosmarijn Steeman; Wouter Vanreusel; Rutger Barendse; Filip Verloove; Nico Wysmantel; Walter Van den Bussche; Thomas Gyselinck; Pieter Hendrickx; Arnout Zwaenepoel; Pierre Van Vooren; Steven Jacobs; Peter Desmet; Karin Gielen; Marc Herremans; Kristijn R R Swinnen

doi:10.3897/phytokeys.85.14925

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

PhytoKeys. 2017 Aug 8:(85):1-10. doi: 10.3897/phytokeys.85.14925. eCollection 2017.

Authors

Roosmarijn Steeman¹, Wouter Vanreusel¹, Rutger Barendse², Filip Verloove³, Nico Wysmantel⁴, Walter Van den Bussche⁴, Thomas Gyselinck⁴, Pieter Hendrickx⁵, Arnout Zwaenepoel¹, Pierre Van Vooren⁵, Steven Jacobs⁶, Peter Desmet⁷, Karin Gielen¹, Marc Herremans¹, Kristijn R R Swinnen^{1

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Affiliations

¹ Natuurpunt Studie, Coxiestraat 11, 2800 Mechelen, Belgium.
² Plantenwerkgroep Genk, 3600 Genk, Belgium.
³ Botanic Garden Meise, Bouchout Domain, Nieuwelaan 38, 1860 Meise, Belgium.
⁴ Natuurpunt, Coxiestraat 11, 2800 Mechelen, Belgium.
⁵ Natuurpunt Beheer, Coxiestraat 11, 2800 Mechelen, Belgium.
⁶ Ecosystem Management Group, Biology Department, University of Antwerp, Campus Drie Eiken, Universiteitsplein 1, 2610 Wilrijk, Belgium.
⁷ Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO), Kliniekstraat 25, 1070, Brussels, Belgium.
⁸ Evolutionary Ecology Group, Biology Department, University of Antwerp, Campus Drie Eiken, Universiteitsplein 1, 2610 Wilrijk, Belgium.

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.

Keywords: citizen science; distribution; native; observation; waarnemingen.be.