Dataset

Verified Marine records from Indicia-based surveys

OBIS UK Open in mapper Explore occurrences

Data include a subset of iSpot records: www.ispotnature.org, those submitted via iRecord: www.brc.ac.uk/irecord and the MBA Indicia-based recording scheme: www.mba.ac.uk/recording. Records are verified by organisations and individuals with relevent taxonomic Expertise. This includes the Marine Biological Assocation and the Conchological Society.

Published: June 20, 2018 at 09:52

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

URL: https://www.dassh.ac.uk/ipt/resource?r=emodnet_01_verified_indicia

Contacts:

Dan Lear
Marine Biological Association of the UK

Data Archive for Marine Species and Habitats (DASSH)
Data Archive for Marine Species and Habitats (DASSH)

NBN Atlas
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10,539
occurrence records
899
taxa
736
species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 331
3.1%
decimalLatitude 331
3.1%
decimalLongitude 331
3.1%
eventDate 23
0.2%
maximumDepthInMeters 10,539
100.0%
minimumDepthInMeters 10,539
100.0%
scientificNameID 10,539
100.0%

Quality flags

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

Flag Dropped Records
NO_DEPTH 10,539
100.0%
ON_LAND 3,614
34.3%
NOT_MARINE 511
4.8%
NO_MATCH 433
4.1%
NO_COORD 331
3.1%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_RESOLVABLE 51
0.5%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME 7
0.1%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_REJECT_AMBIGUOUS 2
0.0%
MARINE_UNSURE 1
0.0%

Measurement types

DNA derived data