Goose monitoring data from the Meise Botanic Garden, Belgium

This data deposit gives details and routes of the goose monitoring at Meise Botanic Garden, Meise, Belgium. Here you will find details of the survey routes and areas where the geese were counted. 

These data can be used with the observation data published on the Global Biodiversity Information Facility. However, a snapshot of the data is included here.

Groom Q (2019). Waterbirds of the Botanic Garden Meise. Version 3.6. Botanic Garden Meise. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/cgffyq accessed via GBIF.org on 2019-01-01.

The files contain the following...

0021579-181108115102211.zip

The download of data from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility

Groom Q (2018). Waterbirds of the Botanic Garden Meise. Version 3.4. Botanic Garden Meise. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/cgffyq accessed via GBIF.org on 2019-01-01.

dataonsectors2019.txt; sectorsdbf.txt

A tab-delimited text file containing data on the surveyed sectors of the garden.

gardenSectors3.shp; ods.dbf

A shapefile and data file describing the extents and positions of the surveyed sectors of the Botanic Garden.

lakes.zip

A shapefile describing the extents of the lakes in the Botanic Garden. This file is not particularly precise and is only used to create maps.

route1.zip; route2.zip; route3.zip; route4.zip

Shapefiles giving the survey routes within the Botanic Garden. Routes were always walked in a clockwise direction.