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Waarnemingen.be - Other insect occurrences in Flanders and the Brussels Capital Region, Belgium
Citation
Lock K, Gielen K, Vanreusel W, Herremans M, Desmet P, Swinnen K, all insect observers (2021): Waarnemingen.be - Other insect occurrences in Flanders and the Brussels Capital Region, Belgium. v1.4. Natuurpunt. Dataset/Occurrence. https://dx.doi.org/10.15468/vcaflk

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Availability: CC0 To the extent possible under law, the person who associated CC0 with this dataset has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this dataset.

Description
Waarnemingen.be - Other insect occurrences in Flanders and the Brussels Capital Region, Belgium is a species occurrence dataset published by Natuurpunt. The dataset contains over 27,000 insect occurrences of 355 naturally occurring species (native, vagrant or migrant species), recorded by volunteers (citizen scientists), mainly since 2008. more

The occurrences are derived from the database http://www.waarnemingen.be, hosted at the nature conservation NGO Natuurpunt in collaboration with Stichting Natuurinformatie. The taxonomic scope of the dataset is defined by "Insects (other)", a residual taxonomic group used at www.waarnemingen.be to indicate insect species that are not part of one of the major insect groups/orders. See Taxonomic coverage for more information regarding which insect groups are (not) included.
Generalized and/or withheld information: location information is generalized to 5 x 5 km² Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) grid cells. Observer name, exact XY-coordinates, toponyms, and photographs are not included in the published dataset, but are known in the source database.
To allow anyone to use this dataset, we have released the data to the public domain under a Creative Commons Zero waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). We would appreciate however, if you read and follow these norms for data use (http://www.natuurpunt.be/normen-voor-datagebruik) 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 provide more information or know how you have used the data, so please contact us via the contact information provided in the metadata or natuurdata@natuurpunt.be. The publication of this dataset is supported by INBO and funded by Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO) as part of the Belgian contribution to LifeWatch.
The publication of this dataset is supported by INBO and funded by Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO) as part of the Belgian contribution to LifeWatch.

Scope
Keywords:
Terrestrial, Belgium, Brussels, Belgium: Flanders, Insecta

Geographical coverage
Belgium, Brussels [Marine Regions]
Belgium: Flanders

Temporal coverage
6 April 1974 - 31 December 2018

Taxonomic coverage
Insecta [WoRMS]

Parameter
Occurrence of biota

Contributor
Vlaamse overheid; Beleidsdomein Omgeving; Instituut voor Natuur- en Bosonderzoek (INBO), moredata creator


Dataset status: Completed
Data type: Data
Data origin: Data collection
Metadatarecord created: 2019-04-11
Information last updated: 2021-07-14
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