INBOVeg - Vegetation observations as part of the ABS (Inventarisatie Autochtone Bomen en Struiken) in Flanders, Belgium

This dataset is composed of 20 datasets which come were collected as part of the ABS (Inventarisatie Autochtone Bomen en Struiken) surveys and are being exported from INBOVEG, the INBO vegetation record database (also part of the "Global Index of Vegetation-plot databases" and the "European Vegetation Archive".

In the column 'occurenceRemarks', details are given regarding the vegetation layer of the point at which the observation was made. In the column 'organismRemarks', are comments regarding the likely native-ness of the plant observed. As the studies that collected these datasets focused on finding native examples of native species, this is an important field that was assessed using expert opinion.

Some of these datasets have been previously published on GBIF as part of the FLORABANK1 bulkdata publication (https://doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.12.2849) at either a 1 km² or a 4 km² scale, here they are published as specific locations (with 30m² uncertainty).The datasets which are being republished in this way are noted in the following list with an asterix.

The GBIF dataset is the same as the data in INBOVeg. The relevant INBOVeg identification codes are:

Location: Code
Antwerp: IV2014020312592737, IV2014020312591275*
Brugge: IV2014020312591390*
Gent: IV2014020312591490*
Groenendaal: IV2014020312591590
Hasselt: IV2014020312591690*
Hechtel-Bree: IV2014020312592021*
Leuven: IV2014020312591706*
Limburg: IV2014020312592637, IV2014020312592853 and IV2014020312592953
Oost-Vlaanderen: IV2014020312593053, IV2014020312591806*
Vlaamse Ardennen: IV2014020312592121*, IV2014020312592321*
Vlaams-Brabant: IV2014020312593153
Voeren: IV2014020312592437
West-Vlaams Heuvelland: IV2014020312592221*, IV2014020312592537*
Ecologische Impulsgebieden: IV2014020312591906*

To allow anyone to use this dataset, we have released the data to the public domain under a Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode). We would appreciate it if you read and follow these norms for data use (http://www.inbo.be/en/norms-for-data-use) and provide a link to the original dataset 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 know how you have used or visualised the data, or to provide more information, so please contact us via the contact information provided in the metadata or via [email protected].

Version June 11, 2026