Dataset

Microbial diversity in shallow water hydrothermal sediments of Gueishan Island, Taiwan

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To better understand the benthic ecosystem near vents off Gueishan Island, we examined the microbial communities across the three domains of life in sediments collected at different distances from the vent area using small-subunit ribosomal RNA pyrosequencing.

Published: September 20, 2022 at 12:42

License: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY) 4.0 License

URL: https://hosted-datasets.gbif.org/mgnify/MGYS00004129.zip

Contacts:

The Chinese University of Hong Kong
The Chinese University of Hong Kong

1,552
occurrence records
618
taxa
36
species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 1,552
100.0%
occurrenceStatus 1,552
100.0%
scientificNameID 1,552
100.0%

Quality flags

The OBIS data quality flags are documented at https://github.com/iobis/obis-qc.

Flag Dropped Records
DEPTH_EXCEEDS_BATH 569
36.7%
NO_MATCH 493
31.8%
MARINE_UNSURE 91
5.9%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME 6
0.4%
NOT_MARINE 5
0.3%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_RESOLVABLE 3
0.2%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_UNRESOLVABLE 3
0.2%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_REJECT_AMBIGUOUS 1
0.1%

Measurement types

DNA derived data