PhytoKeys (Aug 2017)

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
https://doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.85.14925
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 85
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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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.