Description
Observations.be - Orthoptera occurrences in Wallonia, Belgium is a species occurrence dataset published by Natagora. The dataset contains over 35,000 occurrences of 46 occurring species, recorded by volunteers (citizen scientists), mainly since 2008. The occurrences are derived from the database https://observations.be, an initiative from the nature conservation NGO Natagora (https://www.natagora.be) in collaboration with Stichting Natuurinformatie and Natuurpunt. Standardized information regarding the occurrence's sex, lifeStage, behavior, occurrenceRemarks, and samplingProtocol is included as well.
Generalized and/or withheld information: for some occurrences, location information is generalized to grid cells, as requested by the observer (usually to avoid disturbance or collecting). Observer name, toponyms, and photographs are not included in the published dataset, but are known in the source database.
We have released this dataset to the public domain under a Creative Commons Zero waiver. We would appreciate however, if you read and follow these norms for data use (https://www.natagora.be/donnees_naturalistes_usage) and provide a link to the original dataset 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 provide more information or know how you have used the data, so please contact us via the contact information provided in the metadata or via biodata@natagora.be.
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 36,227 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:
Lock K, Foquet B, Foquet R, San Martin G, Arijs G, Cortens J, Deflorenne P, Laudelout A, Paquet J, Desmet P, Bronne L (2020): Observations.be - Orthoptera occurrences in Wallonia, Belgium. v1.1. Natagora. Dataset/Occurrence. https://doi.org/10.15468/r763pb
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is Natagora. 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: e5707b52-5222-4b64-8b6d-be7d1b279cb3. Natagora publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Belgian Biodiversity Platform.
Keywords
Occurrence; Observation; grasshoppers; crickets; Orthoptera; citizen science; Natagora; observations.be; observation.org; Wallonia
Contacts
- Originator
http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1643-6522
- Originator
- Data validator
- Originator
- Originator
- Data validator
- Metadata Provider
- Head of Study Departement
- Metadata Provider ●
- Originator
- Metadata Provider ●
- Originator ●
- Point Of Contact
- Database officer
- Metadata Provider
- Head of Study Departement
Geographic Coverage
Walloon Region. This region is located in the south of Belgium and covers an area of 16,844 km².
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [49.49, 2.84], North East [50.82, 6.41] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
Orthoptera mainly identified to species, sometimes to genus.
| Kingdom | Animalia (animals) |
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| Phylum | Arthropoda |
| Class | Insecta (insects) |
| Order | Orthoptera (grasshoppers & crickets) |
Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 1987-08-30 / 2018-12-05 |
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Sampling Methods
The observations (species, date, location, observer) were recorded by volunteers (citizen scientists) at http://www.observations.be. The dataset is a mixture of presence-only data and checklists.
| Study Extent | See geographic coverage. |
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| Quality Control | Recorded data are constantly verified by species group specialists (including professionals) taking collection specimens, the observer’s species knowledge, added photographs and known species list of locations into account. The validation procedure from observations.be consists of an interactive procedure in which observers can be asked for additional information by a team of validators, after which the validator manually adds a validation status. Records that are not manually validated are additionally checked by an automated validation procedure that takes into account the number of manually validated observations within a specified date and distance range. The validation status is indicated in the field identificationVerificationStatus, the link to the original record is in references. |
Method step description:
- Not provided
Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | e5707b52-5222-4b64-8b6d-be7d1b279cb3 |
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| https://ipt.biodiversity.be/resource?r=natagora-orthoptera-occurrences |