Dataset

Seabirds of the Southern and South Indian Ocean

OBIS Australia Open in mapper Explore occurrences

Seabird observations from ships either performing marine science work or taking personnel and cargo to various Antarctic stations. Incidental observations of whales and seals are also noted. This set also contains data from the BIOMASS cruises in the 1980's.

Citation: Woehler E (2022): Seabirds of the Southern and South Indian Ocean. v1.3. Australian Antarctic Data Centre. Dataset/Occurrence. https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/ASAC_2208_seabirds

Published: July 05, 2022 at 01:18

URL: https://data.aad.gov.au/ipt/resource?r=seabirds

153,815
occurrence records
123
taxa
114
species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
decimalLatitude 1,541
1.0%
decimalLongitude 1,499
1.0%
maximumDepthInMeters 153,815
100.0%
minimumDepthInMeters 153,815
100.0%
occurrenceStatus 213
0.1%
scientificNameID 12
0.0%

Quality flags

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

Flag Dropped Records
NO_DEPTH 153,815
100.0%
NO_COORD 1,541
1.0%
ON_LAND 291
0.2%
NO_MATCH 12
0.0%

Measurement types

DNA derived data