BELGIUM · SPECIES · SPECIES
Amfibieën
What this layer shows
Amphibian records under an open licence, drawn for the current view. The layer is sparse, because roughly a third of Belgian amphibian records do not pass the licence filter, so empty space almost always means that nobody looked or that nothing was shared under a freely reusable licence, and certainly not that the species is absent. Where the view is full you see at most three hundred records, and the presence of species such as natterjack toad and great crested newt is established only by targeted fieldwork, not by this map. Where the publisher locates a record no better than a kilometre, it is drawn as a circle of that stated radius instead of a dot.
Not in the app's radius search: Observation records, not designations: an absence here is not evidence
Publisher and licence
GBIF.org · occurrence records, each under its own CC0 or CC-BY licence; see the record for its dataset
GBIF.org — occurrence records, each under its own CC0 or CC-BY licence; see the record for its dataset
Where the data comes from
GBIF · api.gbif.org
Merestone asks this service live for the area on screen. Nothing is copied or stored beyond a short cache.
Facts shown for each feature
Dataset · Licence · Accuracy (m)
In these presets
Natura 2000
The Natura 2000 network of the three Regions: the Walloon and Brussels sites, and the Flemish habitat- en vogelrichtlijngebieden. This is the free set, the one the map opens with everywhere in Belgium.
Desk study
What a consultancy or a notary checks first in Flanders: SBZ-H and SBZ-V with their sub-sites, VEN and IVON, Ramsar, nature reserves and natuurbeheerplannen, land-use designation and overdrukken from DSI, rights of pre-emption, protected heritage and archaeology, flood-prone land, signaalgebieden and drinking water protection zones. The rest of water, soil, land use and heritage sits in a set of its own.