This spatially resolved assessment of the bottom types in the Sanctuary will provide the framework necessary to more efficiently characterize and quantify benthic fish communities throughout the Sanctuary and thus provide an important complement to the inventory work conducted to-date.

URL: http://ipt.obis.org/nonode/resource?r=noaa_gominv

Federal Government of the United States of America; Department of Commerce; National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; National Ocean Service; National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science Center for Coastal Monitoring and Assessment (NOAA-CCMA)
Federal Government of the United States of America; Department of Commerce; National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; National Ocean Service; National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science Center for Coastal Monitoring and Assessment (NOAA-CCMA)

OBIS Secretariat
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO

2,072

occurrence records

taxa

species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	2,072		100.0%
occurrenceStatus	2,072		100.0%

Quality flags

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

Flag	Dropped	Records
DEPTH_EXCEEDS_BATH		469	22.6%

Biogeographic Characterization of Benthic Habitat Communities within the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary (2006 - Present)

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Quality flags

Measurement types

DNA derived data