National Red Data Books
No recent Red Data Books are available. However, the following
are relevant:
Ptéridophytes et Spermatophytes rares, disparus ou menacés
de disparition en Belgique. A. Lawalrée & L. Delvosalle. 1969.
In Plantes rares, disparues ou menacées de disparition en Belgique:
L'appauvrissement de la flore indigène (L. Delvosalle, F. Demaret,
J. Lambinon & A. Lawalrée), pp. 23-86. Travaux, Ministère
de l'Agriculture. Administration des Eaux et Forêts. Service des Réserves
Naturelles Domaniales et de la Conservation de la Nature.
Bryophytes nouvelles, méconnues, rares, menacées ou disparues
de Belgique. P. De Zuttere & R. Schumacker. 1984. Minist. Region Wallone,
Serv. Conserv. Nature, Trav. 13: 1–160. Lists 1 (out of 4) hornworts,
49 (out of 166 liverworts) and 127 (out of 503) mosses.
Regional Red Data Books
Flanders: Een ecologisch register voor
hogere planten als instrument voor het natuurbehoud in Vlaanderen. B.
Biesbrouck, K. Es, W. Van Landuyt, L. Vanhecke, M. Hermy & P. Van den
Bremt. 2001. Flo.Wer vzw, Instituut voor Natuurbehoud (IN), Katholieke Universiteit
Leuven (KUL), Nationale Plantentuin van België. Brussels. An ecological
database for vascular plants in Flanders with Red List categories and other
ecological information on all vascular plants of the region; available on
the web as Flora Databank.
At the end of 2005 a regional Atlas of Flanders will be published; this will
contain an update of the Flemish Red List.
Wallonie: A Red Data Book on vascular plants is being prepared
and will be published by the end of 2005 by the Centre
de recherche de la Nature, des Forêts et du Bois.
Floras
Nouvelle flore de la Belgique, du Grand-Duché
de Luxembourg, du Nord de la France et des Régions voisines (Pteridophytes
et Spermatophytes). Cinquième édition. J. Lambinon, L.
Delvosalle & P. Duvigneaud. 2004. Jardin Botanique National de Belgique,
Meise.
Flora van België, het Groothertogdom Luxemburg, Noord-Frankrijk en
de aangrenzende gebieden (Pteridofyten en Spermatofyten). Derde druk.
J. Lambinon, J.E. De Langhe, L. Delvosalle & J. Duvigneaud. 1998. Nationale
Plantentuin van België, Meise.
Atlas de la Flore Belge et Luxembourgeoise. Pteridophytes et Spermatophytes.
E. Van Rompaey & L. Delvosalle. 1979. Jardin Botanique National de Belgique,
Meise.
Flora van de levermossen en de hauwmossen van België. C. Vanden
Berghen. 1981. Nationale Plantentuin van België, Meise.
The Lichens and Lichenicolous Fungi of Belgium and Luxemburg. An Annotated
Checklist. P. Diederich & E. Serusiaux. 2000. National Museum of
Natural History, Luxembourg.
Flore pratique des algues d'eau douce de Belgique. 1 Cyanophyceae.
1986. 2 Pyrrhophytes, Raphidophytes, Euglenophytes. 1989. 3 Rhodopytes.
1991. 4 Charophytes. 1992. P. Compère. Jardin Botanique National
de Belgique, Meise.
Flore algologique des côtes du Nord de la France et de la Belgique.
E. Coppejans. 1995. Jardin Botanique National de Belgique, Meise.
Vegetation
Little natural vegetation. Relicts of acid oakwoods and oak/beechwoods with birch remain in the north and east. In central Belgium original beechwoods now largely replaced by farmland but with occasional patches of coppiced oak and hornbeam. Dry grassland drastically reduced; pockets remain in the south and east on sandy and calcareous soils. Some extensive areas of raised bogs and moor survive in the east. Saltmarshes and dunes, once extensive along the North Sea coast, are highly reduced due to urbanization. (Paragraph reproduced with permission from Davis, S.D. et al. (1986). Plants in Danger: What do we know? IUCN, Gland, Switzerland).
Plant Conservation Programmes
PLANTCOL is a
project focussing on Belgian ex-situ collections of living plants. It is coordinated
by the Vereniging van Botanische Tuinen en Arboreta
vzw and cooperates with several Belgian botanic gardens and arboreta.
Overall goal of the project is to complete an inventory of the living collections,
stimulate expert exchange and publish information in a web based database.
A seed bank of wild plants specific for the phytogeographical districts of
Belgium is at the National Botanic Garden
of Belgium. Seed samples of rare and endangered species from the different
phytogeographical regions of Belgium are stored at -20° C. This ex
situ conservation is a contribution to implementation of the Global Strategy
for Plant Conservation. This institute also runs a monitoring programme on
Apium repens.
Key Institutions
National Botanic Garden
of Belgium [Nationale Plantentiun van België], Domein van Bouchout,
1860 Meise.
Research Institute for
Nature and Forest [Instituut voor Natuur- en Bosonderzoek], Kliniekstraat
25, 1070 Brussels. (A scientific institute of the Flemish Government, merged
on 1 January 2006 from the Institute for Forestry and Game Management and
the Institute of Nature Conservation).
Centre de recherche de la
Nature, des Forêts et du Bois, Avenue Maréchal Juin, 23,
5030 Gembloux.
Centre de Recherche sur la Biodiversité,
Université Catholique de Louvain, Croix du Sud 4-5, 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve.
Laboratory of Plant Systematics,
Institute of Botany and Microbiology, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Kasteelpark
Arenberg 31, 3001 Leuven.
Royal Botanical Society of Belgium, Unité
d'Ecologie et de Biogéographie, 5 Place Croix-du-Sud, 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve.
Vlaamse
Mycologen Vereniging, Nationale Plantentuin van België, Domein van
Bouchout, B- 1860 Meise (Association of Flemish mycologists).
Vlaamse Werkgroep voor Bryologie en Lichenologie (VWB), University of Ghent,
Krijgslaan 281, 9000 Gent. (A working group for bryologists and lichenologists
in Flandern).
Flo.Wer vzw (Floristische Werkgroepen),
Domein van Bouchout, 1860 Meise. (NGO that coordinates floristic research
in Flanders).
Amicale Européenne de Floristique (AEF), Rue Arthur Roland, 61, 1030
Brusels. (NGO that coordinates floristic research in the Walloon region).
WWF-Belgium, Boulevard Emile Jacqmain 90,
1000 Brussels.
A list of associations working for the environment can be found at the Bruxelles
Nature website.
Acknowledgement
This page was prepared by Wouter Van Landuyt, Instituut voor Natuurbehoud. Created August 2004. Last update April 2006.
Vascular plants: c. 1400 species
Endangered:
1 (Bromus grossus)
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