The NOAA National Benthic Inventory (NBI) is a dynamic quantitative database on benthic species distributions obtained from studies conducted by NOAA and partnering institutions in estuarine and coastal-ocean areas of the United States.

Citation: NOAA (2018): National Benthic Inventory. v1. GBIF Secretariat. Dataset/Occurrence. https://nccos-coastalscience-products-web-ipt.azurewebsites.net/

Published: October 29, 2019 at 17:22

URL: https://ipt-obis.gbif.us/resource?r=noaa_nbi

Len Balthis
NOAA/NCCOS

Kirk Yedinak

Balthis

202,122

occurrence records

3,809

taxa

2,591

species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	202,122	100.0%
maximumDepthInMeters	2,786	1.4%
minimumDepthInMeters	2,786	1.4%

Quality flags

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

Flag	Records
ON_LAND	14,896	7.4%
NO_DEPTH	2,786	1.4%
DEPTH_EXCEEDS_BATH	1,740	0.9%
MARINE_UNSURE	932	0.5%
NOT_MARINE	512	0.3%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME	389	0.2%

National Benthic Inventory

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Quality flags

Measurement types

DNA derived data