Dataset

16S data from: Diversity of Pico- to Mesoplankton along the 2000 km Salinity Gradient of the Baltic Sea (Hu et al. 2016)

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16S rRNA gene metabarcoding data of surface water microbial communities from 21 off-shore stations following a transect from Kattegat to the Gulf of Bothnia in the Baltic Sea. The data was published in: Yue O O Hu, Bengt Karlson, Sophie Charvet, Anders F Andersson. Diversity of Pico- to Mesoplankton along the 2000 km Salinity Gradient of the Baltic Sea. Front Microbiol. 2016 May 12;7:679. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2016.00679. This dataset was published via the SBDI ASV portal.

Citation: Andersson A F, Karlson B (2026). 16S data from: Diversity of Pico- to Mesoplankton along the 2000 km Salinity Gradient of the Baltic Sea (Hu et al. 2016). Version 1.15. KTH Royal Institute of Technology. Occurrence dataset. https://www.gbif.se/ipt/resource?r=sbdi-asv-3&v=1.15

Published: May 04, 2026 at 11:23

First registration: December 02, 2024 at 09:55

License: To the extent possible under law, the publisher has waived all rights to these data and has dedicated them to the Public Domain (CC0 1.0)

URL: https://www.gbif.se/ipt/resource?r=sbdi-asv-3

Contacts:

Anders F Andersson
KTH Royal Institute of Technology

Bengt Karlson
Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI)

Yue Hu
Karolinska University Hospital

Sophie Charvet

Anders Andersson
KTH Royal Institute of Technology

11,423
occurrence records
22,846
measurements and facts
11,423
sequences
205
taxa
20
species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 11,423
100.0%
occurrenceStatus 11,423
100.0%
scientificNameID 11,423
100.0%

Quality flags

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

Flag Dropped Records
NO_MATCH 8,159
71.4%
MARINE_UNSURE 761
6.7%
NOT_MARINE 16
0.1%

Measurement types

DNA derived data