Name: CRED Rapid Ecological Assessments of Coral Population in the Pacific Ocean 2007-2010
License: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License

Corals are the defining species in one of the highest diversity marine ecosystems, coral reefs. CRED studies of corals address basic questions concerning the distribution, abundance, and condition of corals and coral reefs throughout selected areas of the tropical and subtropical Pacific under U.S. jurisdiction.

Citation

Coral Reef Ecosystem Division (CRED), Pacific Island Fisheries Sciences Center, NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service. 2011. CRED Rapid Ecological Assessments of Coral Population in the Pacific Ocean 2007-2010. Coral Reef Ecosystem Division, Honolulu, HI.Retrieved from http://www.usgs.gov/obis-usa/.

License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License

URL

http://ipt.obis.org/nonode/resource?r=cred_benthic_rea_belt

Archive

http://ipt.obis.org/nonode/archive.do?r=cred_benthic_rea_belt

Contacts

Federal Government of the United States of America; Department of Commerce; National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; National Marine Fisheries Service; Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center Coral Reef Ecosystem Division (NOAA-CRED)
Federal Government of the United States of America; Department of Commerce; National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; National Marine Fisheries Service; Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center Coral Reef Ecosystem Division (NOAA-CRED)

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; National Marine Fisheries Service Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center (NOAA-PIFSC)
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; National Marine Fisheries Service Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center (NOAA-PIFSC)

OBIS Secretariat
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO

176,122

total submitted occurrences

176,083

accepted occurrences

199

taxa

136

species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	176,122	100.0%
maximumDepthInMeters	6,428	3.6%
minimumDepthInMeters	6,428	3.6%
occurrenceStatus	176,122	100.0%
scientificNameID	371	0.2%

Quality flags

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

Flag	Records
DEPTH_EXCEEDS_BATH	33,035	18.8%
NO_DEPTH	6,428	3.6%
MIN_DEPTH_EXCEEDS_MAX	1,062	0.6%
ON_LAND	399	0.2%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_RESOLVABLE	68	0.0%
NO_MATCH	39	0.0%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME	23	0.0%

CRED Rapid Ecological Assessments of Coral Population in the Pacific Ocean 2007-2010

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Quality flags

Measurement types

DNA derived data