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Invasive species - Fallopia japonica on river dikes along the river Zeeschelde, Rupel and Durme
Citation
Vandevoorde B, Devisscher S, Brosens D (2017): Invasive species - Fallopia japonica on river dikes along the river Zeeschelde, Rupel and Durme. v1.9. Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO). Dataset/Occurrence. https://doi.org/10.15468/di2s6j

Access data
Archived data
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
This dataset contains occurrence data on Fallopia japonica on river dikes along the Zeeschelde and its tributaries the Rupel and Durme (Belgium). The occurrence data is extracted from a more exhaustive (GIS layer) dataset, namely the vegetation map of the river dikes. more

A vegetation map is made for dikes of the river Zeeschelde, Durme and Rupel. Five transversal zones are distinguished on the dikes: the base, landside, top on landside, top on riverside and riverside. These are mapped as 5 parallel lines with 10 m as the smallest unit. Shorter units of specific importance are mapped as a point. Each mapped unit has homogeneous vegetation and is designated to a certain vegetation type. Besides grassland vegetation types also reed, tall herb vegetation, trees/shrub and Japanese Knotweed (Fallopia japonica) vegetation were distinguished. The mapped units (lines, points) of Japanese Knotweed were extracted of the vegetation map (GIS layer). This dataset only contains the Japanese knotweed occurrences. Based on the GIS layer point occurrences were generated. The data extracted from the transects and point occurrences have a coordinate uncertainty of 10 m. This dataset only contains the Japanese knotweed occurrences.

Scope
Themes:
Biology > Plants
Keywords:
Fresh water, Dikes, Invasive plants, Belgium, Durme R., Belgium, Rupel R., Belgium, Zeeschelde

Geographical coverage
Belgium, Durme R. [Marine Regions]
Belgium, Rupel R. [Marine Regions]
Belgium, Zeeschelde [Marine Regions]

Temporal coverage
From 1 January 2014 on [In Progress]

Parameter
Occurrence of biota

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

Dataset status: In Progress
Data type: Data
Data origin: Data collection
Metadatarecord created: 2018-11-29
Information last updated: 2019-04-12
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