SPW ARNE-DNF : Occurrences of introduced species along roadsides in Wallonia

François Naveau1, Luc Bailly2, Claude Dopagne3, Claude Dopagne4, Maxime Coupremanne5

1 SPW- Département de la Nature et des Forêts, Avenue Prince de Liège, 7, 5100, Jambes, Belgium; 2 Natagriwal asbl, Quartier Vallée1, Chemin de la Vallée, 4, B4000, Liège, Belgium; 3 Natagriwal asbl/University of Liège, Quartier Vallée1, Chemin de la Vallée, 4, B4000, Liège; 4 Natagriwal asbl/University of Liège, Quartier Vallée1, Chemin de la Vallée, 4, B4000, Liège, Belgium; 5 Belgian Biodiversity Platform - DEMNA, Avenue Maréchal Juin 23, 5030, Gembloux, Belgium

Corresponding author(s): François NaveauLuc BaillyClaude Dopagne, Claude Dopagne (cdopagne@natagriwal.be)

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Resource Citation

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

Abstract

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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Keywords: Occurrence; Wallonia;Belgium;roadsides; introduced species;exotic species;DNF; University of Liège; Département de la Nature et des Forêts, Observation

Project details

Project title: Convention Bords de routes
Personnel: François Naveau
Funding: Walloon Region
Study area descriptions/descriptor: 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.

Data published through GBIF: https://ipt.biodiversity.be/resource?r=bdr

Taxonomic coverage

General taxonomic coverage description: 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.
Taxonomic ranks
Kingdom: Plantae (Haeckel, 1866), Animalia
Common names: plants, animals

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: Wallonia, Southern Belgium.
Coordinates: 49°25'22.8''N and 50°47'49.2''N Latitude; 2°25'55.2''E and 6°25'55.2''E Longitude 

Temporal coverage: March 23, 1998 - February 28, 2022

Methods

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
Study extent description: 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.
Sampling description: Multiple inventories from the Nature and forest direction and other partners.

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive SPW ARNE-DNF : Occurrences of introduced species along roadsides in Wallonia
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: https://ipt.biodiversity.be/archive.do?r=bdr
Publication date of data: 2022-12-01
Language: English
Licences of use: Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 License

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2022-04-26
Hierarchy level: Dataset