Dataset

North Sea plastic incubation and reference communities, raw sequence reads

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The study investigated the influence of seasonal and biogeographical factors on composition and structure of microbial communities colonizing plastic water bottles in the North Sea. Additionally, glass slides and background seawater were sampled.

Published: September 20, 2022 at 12:42

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

URL: https://hosted-datasets.gbif.org/mgnify/MGYS00004601.zip

Contacts:

Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research
Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research

17,171
occurrence records
1,213
taxa
126
species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 17,171
100.0%
maximumDepthInMeters 17,171
100.0%
minimumDepthInMeters 17,171
100.0%
occurrenceStatus 17,171
100.0%
scientificNameID 17,171
100.0%

Quality flags

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

Flag Dropped Records
NO_DEPTH 17,171
100.0%
NO_MATCH 4,454
25.9%
MARINE_UNSURE 1,454
8.5%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME 117
0.7%
NOT_MARINE 99
0.6%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_UNRESOLVABLE 63
0.4%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_RESOLVABLE 45
0.3%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_REJECT_AMBIGUOUS 6
0.0%

Measurement types

DNA derived data