Dataset

Kelp rafts in the Southern Ocean

OBIS Australia Open in mapper Explore occurrences

Records of observations of kelp rafts passing within 50 m of one side of the vessel over replicated periods of 1 hour. Data collected over subantarctic latitudes only. Records include: size, species, presence/absence of holdfast, latitude and longitude, ship speed.

Citation
See metadata record http://www1.data.antarctica.gov.au/aadc/metadata/metadata_redirect.cfm?md=AMD/AU/ASAC_2163
Published
April 16, 2015 at 00:19
First registration
June 24, 2020 at 14:58
URL
https://data.aad.gov.au/ipt/resource?r=kelp
Archive
https://data.aad.gov.au/ipt/archive.do?r=kelp

Contacts

Ben Raymond
Australian Antarctic Data Centre

126
total submitted occurrences
122
accepted occurrences
2
taxa
1
species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
decimalLatitude 3
2.4%
decimalLongitude 4
3.2%
eventDate 126
100.0%
occurrenceStatus 126
100.0%
scientificNameID 126
100.0%

Quality flags

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

Flag Dropped Records
WORMS_ANNOTATION_REJECT_AMBIGUOUS 103
81.7%
NO_COORD 4
3.2%

Measurement types

DNA derived data