Name: CeDAMar database for benthic biological sampling on the abyssal plains
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The primary objective for developing a CeDAMar database is to generate a map of biological abyssal sampling stations in the World Ocean. These data represent the European coverage.

Citation

Martinez Arbizu, P. Smith, C. R., Keller, S. & Ebbe, B. (Editors). Biogeographic Database of the Census of Abyssal Marine Life. [date accessed]. World Wide Web electronic publication. Available online at http://www.cedamar.org/biogeography https://doi.org/10.15468/oc9tsb

License

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

URL

http://ipt.vliz.be/eurobis/resource?r=cedamar

Archive

https://ipt.vliz.be/eurobis/archive.do?r=cedamar

Contacts

Stefanie Keller
Senckenberg am Meer; German Centre for Marine Biodiversity Research

Pedro Martinez Arbizu
Senckenberg am Meer; German Centre for Marine Biodiversity Research

Craig Smith
Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology

Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ)
Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ)

12,337

total submitted occurrences

12,057

accepted occurrences

2,813

taxa

2,703

species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	12,337		100.0%
decimalLongitude		1	0.0%
eventDate	12,337		100.0%
maximumDepthInMeters	12,337		100.0%
minimumDepthInMeters	12,337		100.0%
scientificNameID	293	36	2.7%

Quality flags

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

Flag	Records
NO_DEPTH	12,337	100.0%
NO_MATCH	273	2.2%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME	82	0.7%
ON_LAND	67	0.5%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_REJECT_AMBIGUOUS	50	0.4%
ZERO_COORD	6	0.0%
MARINE_UNSURE	2	0.0%
LON_OUT_OF_RANGE	1	0.0%
NO_COORD	1	0.0%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_RESOLVABLE	1	0.0%

CeDAMar database for benthic biological sampling on the abyssal plains

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Quality flags

Measurement types

DNA derived data