Name: LA MBON Louisiana Oyster Reef-Associated Benthic Biodiversity - Biodiversity Information
License: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License

This dataset contains abundance and biomass measurements of oyster-reef associated benthic biodiversity as well as extended measures of oyster reef health including sediment organic matter content, volume of reef material, volume and/or counts of live oysters, mussels, and barnacles, and oyster size data. This dataset is also linked with passive acoustic recordings.

Published

May 26, 2026 at 15:44

First registration

May 12, 2026 at 16:04

License

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

URL

https://ipt-obis.gbif.us/resource?r=biodiversityinformation_2023_oysterreefs_la_mbon

Archive

https://ipt-obis.gbif.us/archive.do?r=biodiversityinformation_2023_oysterreefs_la_mbon

Contacts

Stephanie Archer
Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium

Felimon Gayanilo
GCOOS

Mathew Biddle
United States Marine Biodiversity Observation Network (US MBON)

Granger Hanks

Allison Noble
Louisiana State University

Lillian Zhou
Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium

Katherine Schlachter

500

total submitted occurrences

500

accepted occurrences

994

measurements and facts

taxa

species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	500	100.0%
maximumDepthInMeters	500	100.0%
minimumDepthInMeters	500	100.0%

Quality flags

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

Flag	Dropped	Records
NO_DEPTH		500	100.0%
ON_LAND		136	27.2%

LA MBON Louisiana Oyster Reef-Associated Benthic Biodiversity - Biodiversity Information

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Quality flags

Measurement types

DNA derived data