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MICA - Muskrat occurrences collected in West Flanders, Belgium
Citation
Cartuyvels E, Brosens D, De Rycke P (2023). MICA - Muskrat occurrences collected in West Flanders, Belgium. Version 1.2. Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO). Occurrence dataset. https://ipt.inbo.be/resource?r=mica-wvl-occurrences&v=1.2. https://marineinfo.org/id/dataset/8717

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Availability: CC0 To the extent possible under law, the person who associated CC0 with this dataset has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this dataset.

Description
MICA - Muskrat occurrences collected in West Flanders, Belgium is an occurrence dataset published by the Research Institute of Nature and Forest (INBO). It is part of the LIFE project MICA, in which innovative techniques are tested for a more efficient control of muskrat and coypu populations, both invasive species. This dataset contains muskrat trap captures. Here it is published as a standardized Darwin Core Archive and includes for each occurrence record an occurrenceID, date, location, the number of recorded individuals, status (present/absent) and scientific name. Issues with the dataset can be reported at https://github.com/inbo/mica-occurrences/issues more

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 or via opendata@inbo.be.


The data were collected as part of the MICA project, which received funding from the European Union’s LIFE Environment sub-programme under the grant agreement LIFE18 NAT/NL/001047.


Scope
Themes:
Biology > Ecology - biodiversity, Biology > Mammals
Keywords:
Fresh water, Terrestrial, Damage prevention, Flood protection, Pest control, Belgium, Flanders

Geographical coverage
Belgium, Flanders [Marine Regions]

Temporal coverage
11 June 2019 - 31 August 2024

Parameter
Occurrence of biota

Contributors
Vlaamse overheid; Beleidsdomein Omgeving; Instituut voor Natuur- en Bosonderzoek (INBO), moredata creator


Dataset status: In Progress
Data type: Data
Data origin: Data collection
Metadatarecord created: 2025-01-07
Information last updated: 2025-01-07
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