Waarnemingen.be - Butterfly occurrences in Flanders and the Brussels Capital Region, Belgium
Citation
Vanreusel W, Herremans M, Vantieghem P, Gielen K, Desmet P, Swinnen K (2021). Waarnemingen.be - Butterfly occurrences in Flanders and the Brussels Capital Region, Belgium. Version 1.10. Natuurpunt. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/ezfbee accessed via GBIF.org on 2024-08-25.Description
Waarnemingen.be - Butterfly occurrences in Flanders and the Brussels Capital Region, Belgium is a species occurrence dataset published by Natuurpunt and described (v1.4) in Maes et al. (2016, https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.585.8019). The dataset contains close to 1.3 million butterfly (Lepidoptera excluding moths) occurrences of 69 naturally occurring species (native, vagrant or migrant species), recorded by volunteers (citizen scientists), mainly since 2008. Together with the dataset Maes et al. (2016, https://doi.org/10.15468/njgbmh), it represents the most complete overview of butterflies in Flanders and the Brussels Capital Region (north Belgium). The occurrences are derived from the database http://www.waarnemingen.be, hosted at the nature conservation NGO Natuurpunt in collaboration with Stichting Natuurinformatie. Standardized information regarding the occurrence's sex, lifeStage, behavior, occurrenceRemarks, and samplingProtocol is included as well.
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 (https://doi.org/10.15468/ezfbee) 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.
Sampling Description
Study Extent
See geographic coverage.Sampling
The observations (species, date, location, observer) were recorded by volunteers (citizen scientists) at http://www.waarnemingen.be.Quality Control
Recorded data are constantly verified by butterfly experts (including professional entomologists) taking collection specimens, the observer’s species knowledge, added photographs and known species list of locations into account. The validation procedure from waarnemingen.be consists of an interactive procedure in which observers can be asked for additional information by a team of validators, after which the validator manually adds a validation status. Records that are not manually validated are additionally checked by an automated validation procedure that takes into account the number of manually validated observations within a specified date and distance range. 10% of the observations in this dataset are supported by a photograph on waarnemingen.be. The validation status is indicated in the field identificationVerificationStatus, the link to the original record in references.Method steps
- Not provided.
Taxonomic Coverages
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Animaliacommon name: animals rank: kingdom
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Arthropodarank: phylum
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Insectacommon name: insects rank: class
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Lepidopteracommon name: moths & butterflies rank: order
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Hesperiidaerank: family
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Lycaenidaerank: family
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Nymphalidaerank: family
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Papilionidaerank: family
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Pieridaerank: family
Geographic Coverages
Bibliographic Citations
- Maes D, Vanreusel W, Herremans M, Vantieghem P, Brosens D, Gielen K, Beck O, Van Dyck H, Desmet P, Vlinderwerkgroep Natuurpunt (2016) A database on the distribution of butterflies (Lepidoptera) in northern Belgium (Flanders and the Brussels Capital Region). ZooKeys 585: 143-156. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.585.8019 -
- Maes D, Brosens D, Beck O, Van Dyck H, Desmet P, Vlinderwerkgroep Natuurpunt, all butterfly recorders (2016): Vlinderdatabank - Butterflies in Flanders and the Brussels Capital Region, Belgium. Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO). Dataset/Occurrence. https://doi.org/10.15468/njgbmh Data paper: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.585.8019 -
- Wieczorek J, Guo QG, Hijmans RJ (2004). The point-radius method for georeferencing locality descriptions and calculating associated uncertainty. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 18: 745-767. https://doi.org/10.1080/13658810412331280211 -
Contacts
Wouter Vanreuseloriginator
Natuurpunt Studie
BE
email: wouter.vanreusel@natuurpunt.be
homepage: http://www.natuurpunt.be
Marc Herremans
originator
Natuurpunt Studie
BE
email: marc.herremans@natuurpunt.be
homepage: http://www.natuurpunt.be
Pieter Vantieghem
originator
Vlinderwerkgroep Natuurpunt
BE
email: ptr.vantieghem@gmail.com
homepage: http://www.natuurpunt.be/vlinderwerkgroep
Karin Gielen
originator
Natuurpunt Studie
BE
email: karin.gielen@natuurpunt.be
homepage: http://www.natuurpunt.be
Peter Desmet
originator
Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO)
BE
email: peter.desmet@inbo.be
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8442-8025
Kristijn Swinnen
originator
Natuurpunt Studie
BE
email: kristijn.swinnen@natuurpunt.be
homepage: http://www.natuurpunt.be
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1910-9247
originator
Vlinderwerkgroep Natuurpunt
BE
email: vlinders@natuurpunt.be
homepage: http://www.natuurpunt.be/vlinderwerkgroep
originator
all butterfly recorders
BE
homepage: http://www.waarnemingen.be
Wouter Vanreusel
metadata author
Natuurpunt Studie
BE
email: wouter.vanreusel@natuurpunt.be
homepage: http://www.natuurpunt.be
Peter Desmet
metadata author
Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO)
BE
email: peter.desmet@inbo.be
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8442-8025
Kristijn Swinnen
metadata author
Natuurpunt Studie
BE
email: kristijn.swinnen@natuurpunt.be
homepage: http://www.natuurpunt.be
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1910-9247
Marc Herremans
administrative point of contact
Natuurpunt Studie
BE
email: marc.herremans@natuurpunt.be
homepage: http://www.natuurpunt.be