Occurrence

Visfauna - Juvenile and adult fishes in riparian habitats along the river Leie in Flanders, Belgium

Latest version published by Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO) on 31 March 2021 Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO)
Publication date:
31 March 2021
License:
CC0 1.0

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Description

Visfauna - Juvenile and adult fishes in riparian habitats along the river Leie in Flanders, Belgium is a species occurrence dataset published by the Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO). The dataset contains over 470 fish occurrences sampled in 2009 in riparian habitats along the river Leie. The dataset includes 8 fish species. The data are collected to investigate the feasibility of a comprehensive study on the impact of the present ecological engineered river banks ("NTMB-oevers") on fish populations in the Leie. The dataset also includes the length and weight of the caught fishes. Issues with the dataset can be reported at https://github.com/LifeWatchINBO/data-publication/tree/master/datasets/visfauna-leie-occurrences

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 it however if you read and follow these norms for data use (http://www.inbo.be/en/norms-for-data-use) and provide a link to the original dataset (https://doi.org/10.15468/2wrvbz) 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 know how you have used or visualized the data, or to provide more information, so please contact us via the contact information provided in the metadata, opendata@inbo.be or https://twitter.com/LifeWatchINBO.

Data Records

The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 477 records.

1 extension data tables also exist. An extension record supplies extra information about a core record. The number of records in each extension data table is illustrated below.

Occurrence (core)
477
MeasurementOrFacts 
945

This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.

Versions

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How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Mouton A, Brosens D, Desmet P (2021): Visfauna - Juvenile and adult fishes in riparian habitats along the river Leie in Flanders, Belgium. v9.5. Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO). Dataset/Occurrence. https://doi.org/10.15468/2wrvbz

Rights

Researchers should respect the following rights statement:

The publisher and rights holder of this work is Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO). To the extent possible under law, the publisher has waived all rights to these data and has dedicated them to the Public Domain (CC0 1.0). Users may copy, modify, distribute and use the work, including for commercial purposes, without restriction.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 08a4ed1f-8586-4437-b3c9-95989eb40fd4.  Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO) publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Belgian Biodiversity Platform.

Keywords

Occurrence; Observation; juvenile fish; riparian habitat; river bank; spawning ground; foreshore; water management; Occurrence

Contacts

Ans Mouton
  • Metadata Provider
  • Originator
  • Point Of Contact
Researcher
Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO)
Kliniekstraat 25
1070 Brussels
Brussels Capital Region
BE
Dimitri Brosens
  • Metadata Provider
  • Originator
Data liaison officer
Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO)
Kliniekstraat 25
1070 Brussels
Brussels Capital Region
BE
Peter Desmet
  • Metadata Provider
  • Originator
Data lab coordinator
Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO)
Kliniekstraat 25
1070 Brussels
Brussels Capital Region
BE

Geographic Coverage

Riparian habitats along the river Leie in Flanders, Belgium. This 202 km river originates in Pas-de-Calais, France and drains into the river Scheldt in Ghent, Belgium. Sampling occurred in the section between Zulte and Deinze.

Bounding Coordinates South West [50.9, 3.4], North East [50.99, 3.53]

Taxonomic Coverage

All eight species in this dataset are fishes (Actinopterygii). 83% of the recorded species are Rutilus rutilus.

Kingdom Animalia (animals)
Class Actinopterygii (ray-finned fishes)
Species Anguilla anguilla (European eel), Carassius gibelio (Prussian carp), Gobio gobio (gudgeon), Gymnocephalus cernuus (Eurasian ruffe), Perca fluviatilis (European perch), Rutilus rutilus (common roach), Sander lucioperca (zander), Scardinius erythrophthalmus (common rudd)

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 2009-08-18 / 2009-08-19

Sampling Methods

The fish were sampled using fykes and electrofishing, on August 18 and 19, 2009. The number of individuals was recorded, as well as fork length (tip of snout to fork of tail in millimeter) and weight (gram).

Study Extent Nine sites of riparian habitats along the river Leie in Flanders, Belgium, between the dam of Sint-Baafs-Vijve (Zulte) and Deinze, covering different bank types.
Quality Control All records are validated.

Method step description:

  1. Fykes and electrofishing were used to sample the riparian habitats.

Bibliographic Citations

  1. Mouton A, Martens S, Gelaude E, Buysse D, Stevens M, Van den Neucker T, Baeyens R, Jacobs Y, Coeck J (2010) Studie ter voorbereiding van een evaluatie-onderzoek van NTMB-projecten langs de Leie uitgevoerd door W&Z - luik visfauna. Rapporten van het Instituut voor Natuur- en Bosonderzoek, 2010(11). Instituut voor Natuur- en Bosonderzoek (INBO): Brussel. 33 pp.

Additional Metadata

Alternative Identifiers 08a4ed1f-8586-4437-b3c9-95989eb40fd4
https://ipt.inbo.be/resource?r=visfauna-leie-occurrences