Song-, waterbird and amphibian biodiversity in the Bosscherveld floodplain (Maastricht, the Netherlands)

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Description

This data set describes the waterbird and amphibian biodiversity of a newly restored wetland in the Southern Netherlands (Bosscherveld, Maastricht) in the period of October 2022 to July 2023.

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Lobnik R, Erkens R (2026). Song-, waterbird and amphibian biodiversity in the Bosscherveld floodplain (Maastricht, the Netherlands). Version 1.0. Netherlands Biodiversity Information Facility (NLBIF). Samplingevent dataset. https://tryout.nlbif.nl/resource?r=um_bosscherveld&v=1.0

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The publisher and rights holder of this work is Maastricht University. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License.

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This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 73ef4cb3-6e87-4553-94c6-b79db6c5e26f.  Maastricht University publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Netherlands Biodiversity Information Facility.

Keywords

Samplingevent; Wetland; Habitat restoration; Inventory; Birds; Amphibians

Contacts

Rok Lobnik
  • Originator
Maastricht Science Programme, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Maastricht University
Maastricht
NL
Roy Erkens
  • Originator ●
  • Point Of Contact
System Earth Science, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Maastricht University
Venlo
NL

Geographic Coverage

The study was conducted at a 123 ha artificial floodplain, called Bosscherveld, located north of the city of Maastricht (50°52′06.9″N 5°41′36.9″E), the Netherlands. 

Bounding Coordinates South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180]

Taxonomic Coverage

No Description available

Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Class Aves, Amphibia
Order Anseriformes, Anura, Pelecaniformes, Ciconiiformes, Galliformes, Gruiformes, Passeriformes, Charadriiformes, Anseriformes, Podicipediformes, Coraciiformes, Piciformes, Pelecaniformes, Suliformes, Charadriiformes
Family Ranidae, Bufonidae, Troglodytidae, Ardeidae , Laridae , Podicipedidae, Alaudidae, Muscicapidae, Paridae, Recurvirostridae, Haematopodidae, Charadriidae, Scolopacidae, Picidae, Phalacrocoracidae, Alcedininae, Scolopacidae, Charadriidae, Threskiornithidae, Sylviidae, Cettiidae, Anatidae, Turdidae, Phasianidae, Rallidae, Acrocephalidae, Prunellidae, Phylloscopidae, Ardeidae, Ciconiidae, Anatidae

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 2022-10-29 / 2023-07-07

Project Data

The Dutch main water systems face pressing environmental, economic and societal challenges due to climatic changes and increased human pressure. There is a growing awareness that nature-based solutions (NBS) provide cost-effective solutions that simultaneously provide environmental, social and economic benefits and help building resilience. In spite of being carefully designed and tested, many projects tend to fail along the way or never get implemented in the first place, wasting resources and undermining trust and confidence of practitioners in NBS. Why do so many projects lose momentum even after a proof of concept is delivered? Usually, failure can be attributed to a combination of eroding political will, societal opposition and economic uncertainties. While ecological and geological processes are often well understood, there is almost no understanding around societal and economic processes related to NBS. Therefore, there is an urgent need to carefully evaluate the societal, economic, and ecological impacts and to identify design principles fostering societal support and economic viability of NBS. We address these critical knowledge gaps in this research proposal, using the largest river restoration project of the Netherlands, the Border Meuse (Grensmaas), as a Living Lab.

Title Crossing the borders at the Grensmaas
Project Award Crossing borders at the Grensmaas

Dutch Research Council (NWO)
17596

The personnel involved in the project:

Roy Erkens
  • Principal Investigator

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Alternative Identifiers https://ipt.nlbif.nl/resource?r=um_bosscherveld