Dataset

NW pacific deep-sea benthos distribution and abundance (Beneficial Project)

OBIS Deep Sea MeasurementOrFact Open in mapper Explore occurrences

The aim of this dataset is to deliver a sound biogeographic baseline study of the NW Pacific area including our available data from the Sea of Japan, Sea of Okhotsk, Kuril-Kamchatka Trench (KKT), Aleutian Trench (AT), SW Bering Sea, and the NW Pacific open abyssal plain. We aim at compiling a novel book on the biogeography of the NW Pacific faunas, which will also provide information on highly abundant key species which might potentially invade the Arctic Ocean in future under decreasing sea-ice conditions. Thus our data will be “beneficial” for the assessment of state and quality of the Arctic marine ecosystem in a changing environment.

Citation: Saeedi H, Winterberg H, Alalykina IL, Bergmeier FS, Downey R, Golovan O, Jażdżewska A, Kamenev GM, Maiorova A, Malyutina M, Minin K, Mordukhovich V, Petrunina A, Schwabe E, Brandt A (2018): NW Pacific deep-sea benthos distribution and abundance (Beneficial Project). v1.1. Deep-sea OBIS node. Dataset/Samplingevent. http://ipt.iobis.org/obis-deepsea/resource?r=beneficial_deepsea&v=1.1

Published: June 24, 2020 at 16:06

URL: http://ipt.iobis.org/obis-deepsea/resource?r=beneficial_deepsea

7,059
occurrence records
6,331
measurements and facts
872
taxa
366
species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 734 35
10.9%

Quality flags

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

Flag Dropped Records
DEPTH_EXCEEDS_BATH 667
9.4%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME 51
0.7%
MARINE_UNSURE 13
0.2%

Measurement types

DNA derived data