INBOVeg - Vegetation surveys carried out in the early 2000's as part of a study investigating reuse of dredged material in Flanders, Belgium

All records and identifications were carried out by trained experts. Details of the project, including the sampling protocol, are given in the associated journal article "Piesschaert, F., Mertens, J., Huybrechts, W., De Rache, P. (2005). Early vegetation succession and management options on a brackish sediment dike.

Ecological Engineering, 25(4), 349-364", with extra information here: protocols.inbo.be/2023.03/index.html and on the associated zenodo protocol-bundle here: doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7619958 . To allow for the use of this dataset, we have released the data to the public domain under a Creative Commons CCBYNC waiver (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode). We would appreciate however, if you read and follow these norms for data use (inbo.be/en/norms-for-data-use) and provide a link to the original dataset whenever possible.

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