Description
Wallonia has a very large road network, which shows how important the shoulders, medians, embankments and ditches are for wildlife. In some regions, they are even the last refuges for many organisms. Therefore, within the framework of the European Year of Nature Conservation 1995, the Directorate of Nature Conservation and Green Spaces of the Walloon Region has launched a pilot project for the ecological management of the edges of municipal roads. The objective: to make them more welcoming for wildlife. To date, several dozen municipalities have signed an agreement with the Walloon Region.
Within the framework of this agreement, the Region (Département de la Nature et des Forêts- SPW DNF) carries out a series of biological inventories along the roads. This set of occurrence data is limited to observations of non-native species that have been carried out within this framework.
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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 4,960 records.
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
The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.
How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Naveau F, Bailly L, Dopagne C (2022): SPW ARNE-DNF : Occurrences of introduced species along roadsides in Wallonia. v1.5. Service Public de Wallonie – Département d’Etude du Milieu Naturel et Agricole (SPW – DEMNA). Dataset/Occurrence. https://ipt.biodiversity.be/resource?r=bdr&v=1.5
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is Service Public de Wallonie – Département d’Etude du Milieu Naturel et Agricole (SPW – DEMNA). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC 4.0) License.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 93dc0e04-f4f8-4773-ab23-4fa48327fe2e. Service Public de Wallonie – Département d’Etude du Milieu Naturel et Agricole (SPW – DEMNA) publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Belgian Biodiversity Platform.
Keywords
Occurrence; Wallonia;Belgium;roadsides; introduced species;exotic species;DNF; University of Liège; Département de la Nature et des Forêts; Observation
Contacts
- Originator ●
- Point Of Contact
- Expert
- Avenue Prince de Liège, 7
- Originator
- Expert
- Quartier Vallée1, Chemin de la Vallée, 4
- Metadata Provider ●
- Point Of Contact
- Expert
- Quartier Vallée1, Chemin de la Vallée, 4
- Metadata Provider ●
- Point Of Contact
- Expert
- Quartier Vallée1, Chemin de la Vallée, 4
- Publisher
- Data liaison officer
- Avenue Maréchal Juin 23
Geographic Coverage
Wallonia, Southern Belgium.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [49.423, 2.432], North East [50.797, 6.432] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
Introduced species. The Global Register of Introduced Species - Belgium (10.15468/xoidmd) was used as a reference to identify non-natives taxa to be exported in this dataset.
| Kingdom | Plantae (Haeckel, 1866) (plants), Animalia (animals) |
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Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 1998-03-23 / 2022-02-28 |
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Project Data
The campaign of late mowing of roadsides was launched in 1995 by the Public Service of Wallonia (DGARNE: Direction générale de l'Agriculture, des Ressources naturelles et de l'Environnement) within the framework of the second "European Year of Nature Conservation".Thanks to this agreement, late mowing is applied in almost all Walloon municipalities and provinces. Also, since 1995, date of the launching of the late mowing operation in Wallonia, the road network has become more welcoming for wildlife.
| Title | Convention Bords de routes |
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| Funding | Walloon Region |
| Study Area Description | Wallonia's road network. The term "roadside" refers to all areas that are part of the road infrastructure and are in the public domain. The term is therefore very general and includes: embankments, cutbacks, medians, side medians, toe berms, slope berms, crest berms, and excess right-of-way. Most are vegetated and for the sake of brevity, many refer to them as green outbuildings. |
The personnel involved in the project:
- Point Of Contact
Sampling Methods
Multiple inventories from the Nature and forest direction and other partners.
| Study Extent | Roadsides are part of the ecological network. In Wallonia, the potential of roadsides is important since there are more than 60,000 kilometers of roads and twice as many roadsides. It is difficult to quantify the exact surface occupied by the roadsides, but it is relatively easy to estimate it at more than 20,000 hectares. Roadside Inventories started in 1998 and are still ongoing. |
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Method step description:
- Inventories from different actors.
- Encoding occurrences in the BIOGEONet database (University of Liège -ULg).
- Export and DarwinCore formatting of introduced species records
Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | 93dc0e04-f4f8-4773-ab23-4fa48327fe2e |
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| https://ipt.biodiversity.be/resource?r=bdr |