Observations.be - Orthoptera occurrences in Wallonia, Belgium

Koen Lock; Bert Foquet; Ruben Foquet; Gilles San Martin; Gert Arijs; Joeri Cortens; Philippe Deflorenne; Arnaud Laudelout; Jean-Yves Paquet; Peter Desmet; Louis Bronne

doi:10.15468/r763pb

Observations.be - Orthoptera occurrences in Wallonia, Belgium

Citation

Lock K, Foquet B, Foquet R, San Martin G, Arijs G, Cortens J, Deflorenne P, Laudelout A, Paquet J, Desmet P, Bronne L (2020). Observations.be - Orthoptera occurrences in Wallonia, Belgium. Version 1.1. Natagora. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/r763pb accessed via GBIF.org on 2024-12-26.

Description

Observations.be - Orthoptera occurrences in Wallonia, Belgium is a species occurrence dataset published by Natagora. The dataset contains over 35,000 occurrences of 46 occurring species, recorded by volunteers (citizen scientists), mainly since 2008. The occurrences are derived from the database https://observations.be, an initiative from the nature conservation NGO Natagora (https://www.natagora.be) in collaboration with Stichting Natuurinformatie and Natuurpunt. Standardized information regarding the occurrence's sex, lifeStage, behavior, occurrenceRemarks, and samplingProtocol is included as well.

Generalized and/or withheld information: for some occurrences, location information is generalized to grid cells, as requested by the observer (usually to avoid disturbance or collecting). Observer name, toponyms, and photographs are not included in the published dataset, but are known in the source database.

We have released this dataset to the public domain under a Creative Commons Zero waiver. We would appreciate however, if you read and follow these norms for data use (https://www.natagora.be/donnees_naturalistes_usage) 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 via biodata@natagora.be.

Sampling Description

Study Extent

See geographic coverage.

Sampling

The observations (species, date, location, observer) were recorded by volunteers (citizen scientists) at http://www.observations.be. The dataset is a mixture of presence-only data and checklists.

Quality Control

Recorded data are constantly verified by species group specialists (including professionals) taking collection specimens, the observer’s species knowledge, added photographs and known species list of locations into account. The validation procedure from observations.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. The validation status is indicated in the field identificationVerificationStatus, the link to the original record is in references.

Method steps

Not provided

Taxonomic Coverages

Orthoptera mainly identified to species, sometimes to genus.

Animalia
common name: animals rank: kingdom
Arthropoda
rank: phylum
Insecta
common name: insects rank: class
Orthoptera
common name: grasshoppers & crickets rank: order

Geographic Coverages

Walloon Region. This region is located in the south of Belgium and covers an area of 16,844 km².

Bibliographic Citations

Contacts

Koen Lock
originator
position: Data validator
Saltabel
BE
email: koen_lock@hotmail.com

Bert Foquet
originator
Department of Entomology, Texas A&M
US
email: bert.foquet@gmail.com
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1643-6522

Ruben Foquet
originator
position: Data validator
Saltabel
BE
email: ruben.foquet@telenet.be

Gilles San Martin
originator
position: Data validator
Saltabel
BE
email: gilles.sanmartin@gmail.com
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0434-9416

Gert Arijs
originator
position: Data validator
Saltabel
BE
email: opwijk@gmail.com

Joeri Cortens
originator
Natuurpunt
BE
email: joeri.cortens@natuurpunt.be

Philippe Deflorenne
originator
position: Data validator
Natagora
BE
email: philippedeflorenne@yahoo.fr

Arnaud Laudelout
originator
position: Data validator
Natagora
BE
email: arnaud.laudelout@natagora.be
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7358-8517

Jean-Yves Paquet
originator
position: Head of Study Departement
Natagora
BE
email: louis.bronne@natagora.be
homepage: https://www.natagora.be
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2068-7976

Peter Desmet
originator
Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO)
BE
email: peter.desmet@inbo.be
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8442-8025

Louis Bronne
originator
position: Database officer
Natagora
BE
email: louis.bronne@natagora.be
homepage: https://www.natagora.be
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3396-184X

Louis Bronne
metadata author
position: Database officer
Natagora
BE
email: louis.bronne@natagora.be
homepage: https://www.natagora.be
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3396-184X

Jean-Yves Paquet
metadata author
position: Head of Study Departement
Natagora
BE
email: jean-yves.paquet@natagora.be
homepage: https://www.natagora.be
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2068-7976

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

Louis Bronne
administrative point of contact
position: Database officer
Natagora
BE
email: louis.bronne@natagora.be
homepage: https://www.natagora.be
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3396-184X