Florient - a database dealing with historic wild plant occurrences

Katrijn Vannerum1, Paul Van den Brempt2, Thijs Lambrecht1, Dimitri Brosens3

1 Ghent University, , Belgium; 2 , Belgium; 3 Research Institute for Nature and Forest/ Belgian Biodiversity Platform, , Belgium

Corresponding author(s): Katrijn VannerumPaul Van den BremptThijs LambrechtDimitri Brosens, Katrijn Vannerum (katrijnvannerum@hotmail.com)

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Citation: Combination of authors, year of data paper publication (in parentheses), Title, Journal Name, Volume, Issue number (in parentheses), and doi of the data paper.

Resource Citation

Vannerum K, Van den Brempt P, Lambrecht T, Brosens D (2021): Florient - a database dealing with historic wild plant occurrences. v1.4. Ghent University. Dataset/Occurrence. https://ipt.biodiversity.be/resource?r=florient-occurrences&v=1.4

Abstract

Florient - a database dealing with historic wild plant occurrences is an occurrence dataset published by Ghent University and the Belgian Biodiversity Platform.
The FLORIENT database is based on the herbarium of Charles Van Hoorebeke (1790-1821), in which he recorded nearly all wild plants that occurred in the province of East Flanders. A prospectus of his planned publication about this, the "Flore de la Flandre Orientale", appeared in 1821. That same year he died. As a result of which his work never appeared in print and the data were not available. Frans Roucel (1765-1831), a contemporary from Aalst, focused in his published floras (from 1792 and 1803) on rare wild plants and their use, and went into more detail about the growing conditions of the species. The combination of information from both works provides an exceptionally complete and detailed picture of the flora of East Flanders around the beginning of the 19th century, before the industrial and agricultural revolution.
The digital collection is also available at www.botanicalcollections.be 
This dataset contains historic wild plant occurrences (early 19th century). Here it is published as a standardized Darwin Core Archive and includes for each record an eventID, date, location, sampling protocol, occurrenceID, the number of recorded individuals, status (present/absent), . Issues with the dataset can be reported at https://github.com/BelgianBiodiversityPlatform/data-publication-bbpf/tree/main/datasets/florient-occurrences
Generalized and/or withheld information: as these are historic occurrences, the location is geocoded to the municipality as it originally appeared in the data.
We have released this dataset to the public domain under a Creative Commons Zero waiver. We would appreciate it if you follow the INBO norms for data use (https://www.inbo.be/en/norms-data-use) when using the data. If you have any questions regarding this dataset, don't hesitate to contact us via the contact information provided in the metadata.

Keywords: Occurrence, Specimen, Plants, herbarium, historic, Ghent, Flanders

Project details

Project title: Florient: twee eeuwen Oost-Vlaamse flora
Personnel: Katrijn Vannerum
Funding: Flemish Government,  Provincie Oost-Vlaanderen and Ghent University
Study area descriptions/descriptor: Flanders, Belgium

Data published through GBIF: https://ipt.biodiversity.be/resource?r=florient-occurrences

Taxonomic coverage

General taxonomic coverage description: Vascular plants
Taxonomic ranks
Kingdom: Plantae
Subkingdom: Embryophyta 
Unranked: Tracheophyta

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: Province of East Flanders, Belgium A few occurrences originate from outside the province.
Coordinates: 50°44'24''N and 51°18'36''N Latitude; 3°0'43.2''E and 5°16'12''E Longitude 

Temporal coverage: January 1, 1803 - December 31, 1819

Natural collections description

Collection name: Ghent University Herbarium
Collection identifier: GENT

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive Florient - a database dealing with historic wild plant occurrences
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: https://ipt.biodiversity.be/archive.do?r=florient-occurrences
Publication date of data: 2021-12-14
Language: English
Licences of use: Public Domain (CC0 1.0)

External datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Florient
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Microsoft Excel
Distribution: https://dms.oost-vlaanderen.be/download/c6fa2ae7-d976-40e4-beb0-f15ed7b72863/Florient.xlsx

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2021-12-13
Hierarchy level: Dataset

References
Universiteit Gent, Collectie Plantentuin, Herbarium Charles Van Hoorebeke
Koninklijke Maatschappij voor Landbouw en Plantkunde, Gent, catalogi bij het Herbarium Charles Van Hoorebeke
Flore de Gand, erfgoedproject gesubsidieerd door de Vlaamse Overheid, 2018-2021 

Roucel F. A., Traité des plantes les moins fréquentes, qui croissent naturellement dans les environs des villes de Gand, d’Alost, de Termonde et Bruxelles (Brussel, 1792). 
Roucel F. A., Flore du nord de la France ou description des plantes indigènes et de celles cultivées dans les départements de la Lys, de l’Escaut, de la Dyle et des Deux-Nèthes (Paris, 1803).
Mussche J. H., Hortus Gandavensis ou tableau général de toutes les plantes exotiques et indigènes, cultivées dans le jardin botanique de la ville de Gand (Gent, 1817).
Lambinon J., de Langhe J. E., Delvosalle L. e.a., Flora van België, het Groothertogdom Luxemburg, Noord-Frankrijk en de aangrenzende gebieden (Pteridofyten en Spermatofyten) (Meise, 1998). 
Van Landuyt W., Vanhecke L. en Hoste I. (2006), “Rode Lijst van de vaatplanten van Vlaanderen en het Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest”, in: W. Van Landuyt e.a. (eds.), Atlas van de flora van Vlaanderen en het Brussels Gewest (Brussel, 2006), pp. 69–81.
Van Landuyt W. en Brosens D. Florabank1 - A grid-based database on vascular plant distribution in the northern part of Belgium (Flanders and the Brussels capital region). Version 45.13. Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO), 2020 (accessed via GBIF.org on 2020-12-10). https://doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.12.2849
www.waarnemingen.be, Stichting Observation International en Natuurpunt (laatst geraadpleegd op 10/12/2020).