Dataset

Antarctic Biodiversity Studies 2006 (Ross Sea, Scott Island, and Balleny Islands) (TAN0602)

SWP OBIS Open in mapper Explore occurrences

NIWA was contracted by the New Zealand Government, through its agent Land Information New Zealand (LINZ), to conduct a 51-day scientific study of areas in the Eastern & Central Ross Sea and around Scott & Balleny Islands, Antarctica. This work included biodiversity studies for the Ministry of Fishes (MFish), and marine mammal and sea bird studies for MFish and Department of Conservation (DoC).

Citation: NIWA (2015). Antarctic Biodiversity Studies 2006 - Ross Sea, Scott Island, and Balleny Islands (TAN0602). Southwestern Pacific OBIS, National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, Wellington, New Zealand, 1061 records, Online http://nzobisipt.niwa.co.nz/resource.do?r=tan0602 released on April 17, 2015.

Published: August 08, 2018 at 21:08

URL: https://nzobisipt.niwa.co.nz/resource?r=tan0602

Kevin Mackay
NIWA

Alison MacDiarmid

1,061
occurrence records
140
taxa
92
species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
eventDate 1,060
99.9%
maximumDepthInMeters 729
68.7%
minimumDepthInMeters 729
68.7%

Quality flags

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

Flag Dropped Records
NO_DEPTH 729
68.7%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME 3
0.3%

Measurement types

DNA derived data