Dataset

Namibian West Coast Biodiversity

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Data collected by Prof George Branch from UCT and his students. All organisms found on the rocky shores of the Namibian Coast from just south of Luederitz to the Kunene River Mouth and one station (Rooiklippes on the South African West Coast)

Citation
Branch (2002) West Coast biodiversity survey. University of Cape Town. Published by AfrOBIS; consulted via iOBIS.
Published
December 02, 2020 at 14:09
License
This [DATA(BASE)-NAME] is made available under the Open Data Commons Attribution License: http://www.opendatacommons.org/licenses/by/1.0/.

Contacts

George Branch
UCT

Anja Kreiner
National Marine Information and Research Center

Ursula von St Ange
AfrOBIS / CSIR

822
total submitted occurrences
822
accepted occurrences
127
taxa
111
species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 822
100.0%
maximumDepthInMeters 822
100.0%
minimumDepthInMeters 822
100.0%
occurrenceStatus 822
100.0%

Quality flags

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

Flag Dropped Records
NO_DEPTH 822
100.0%
ON_LAND 247
30.0%

Measurement types

DNA derived data