Dataset

Seabird observations from the northern section of the Great Barrier Reef, Australia (1991-1996)

OBIS Australia Open in mapper Explore occurrences

This dataset is the seabird counts from the project 'Environmental Effects of Prawn Trawling in the Far Northern Section of the Great Barrier Reef 1991-1996'. It includes additional observations prior to this period. Project information from https://marlin.csiro.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/28cef823-767c-459f-891f-5f166bc905de

Citation
Pitcher R (2022): Seabird observations from the northern section of the Great Barrier Reef, Australia (1991-1996). v1.2. CSIRO National Collections and Marine Infrastructure (NCMI) Information and Data Centre (IDC). Dataset/Occurrence. https://www.marine.csiro.au/ipt/resource?r=gbr_northern_prawn_survey_seabirds&v=1.2
Published
June 06, 2022 at 12:50
First registration
May 07, 2021 at 02:47
License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 License
URL
https://www.marine.csiro.au/ipt/resource?r=gbr_northern_prawn_survey_seabirds
Archive
https://www.marine.csiro.au/ipt/archive.do?r=gbr_northern_prawn_survey_seabirds

Contacts

Roland Pitcher
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere

OBIS Australia Node manager
CSIRO National Collections and Marine Infrastructure Data Centre

3,640
total submitted occurrences
3,633
accepted occurrences
34
taxa
33
species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
decimalLatitude 1
0.0%
decimalLongitude 1
0.0%
scientificNameID 2
0.1%

Quality flags

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

Flag Dropped Records
ON_LAND 185
5.1%
DEPTH_EXCEEDS_BATH 111
3.0%
NOT_MARINE 4
0.1%
NO_MATCH 2
0.1%
NO_COORD 1
0.0%

Measurement types

DNA derived data