InboVeg - Vegetation Mapping in Bourgoyen-Ossemeersen in Flanders, Belgium

It has been previously published on GBIF as part of the FLORABANK1 bulk data publication (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.

In the data, under 'Occurrence remarks', the vegetation layer is noted. Details of the sampling protocol, including the vegetation layer codes, are given in the associated report: Butaye, J., De Becker, P. & Maelfait, J.-P. (1995). Verklarende tekst bij de vegetatiekaart van het natuurreservaat de Bourgoyen-Ossemeersen.

Instituut voor Natuurbehoud. 101 p. (Rapporten van het instituut voor natuurbehoud; no. 23) 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 City of Ghent. Much of the nature reserve was previously working agricultural grasslands which were taken out of agricultural service in 1974, some 30 years before these vegetation surveys were carried out.

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