INBOVeg - Vegetation surveys of potential and actual alluvial forests in East Flanders, Belgium

This dataset was collected as part of a project investigating the requirements of ‘Alluvial forests with Alnus glutinosa and Fraxinus excelsior (Alno-Padion, Alnion)’ habitats in Flanders, partly to inform management, restoration and the assessment of development opportunities of/for such habitats.

This research was carried out by INBO under its previous name (the Institute for Nature Conservation, in Dutch ‘het Instituut voor Natuurbehoud’), on behalf of the province of East Flanders (provincie Oost-Vlaanderen).

In the data, under 'Occurrence remarks', the vegetation layer code is noted. The transect code is noted under 'Event remarks'. Although abiotic data was collected during this project, only vegetation data is presented here. Details of the sampling protocol, including the vegetation layer codes, are given in the associated report: De Becker, P., Jochems, H., & Huybrechts, W. (2004). Onderzoek naar de abiotische standplaatsvereisten van verschillende beekbegeleidende alno-padion & Alnion incanae-gemeenschappen. (Verslag van het Instituut voor Natuurbehoud; Vol. 17). Instituut voor Natuurbehoud. All data was collected by trained experts.

The data is being exported from INBOVEG, the INBO vegetation record database (also part of the "Global Index of Vegetation-plot databases" and the "European Vegetation Archive"). This GBIF dataset is the same as the data in INBOVeg. The relevant identification code is 'IV2013122411061887'. It has 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, it is published with specific locations (with 30m² uncertainty). No coordinate uncertainty was noted in the accompanying report, so 30m² is only an estimate. The coordinates were originally recorded in the Belgian Lambert system, but they are given here as WGS84 coordinates.

To allow anyone to use this dataset, we have released the data to the public domain under a Creative Commons Attribution waiver (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). We would appreciate, however, 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].

2026-07-23