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
First registration
June 24, 2020 at 14:59
License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License
URL
https://data.aad.gov.au/ipt/resource?r=seabirds
Archive
https://data.aad.gov.au/ipt/archive.do?r=seabirds

Contacts

Eric Woehler
University of Tasmania (IMAS)

DATA OFFICER AADC
Australian Antarctic Division

153,815
total submitted occurrences
152,262
accepted occurrences
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