Name: Microbial communities in deep eastern Mediterranean Sea surface sediments
License: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY) 4.0 License

In order to elucidate spatial distribution of microorganisms in deep sea surface sediments and to reduce the general information deficiency regarding microbial community composition in sediments of the eastern Mediterranean Sea, sequences of surface sediment samples from 9 stations in the Levantine basin were produced by 454 massive tag sequencing and compared to each other.

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/MGYS00004035.zip

Contacts:

IOLR -National Institute of Oceanography
IOLR -National Institute of Oceanography

1,751

occurrence records

250

taxa

species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	1,751	100.0%
maximumDepthInMeters	1,751	100.0%
minimumDepthInMeters	1,751	100.0%
occurrenceStatus	1,751	100.0%
scientificNameID	1,751	100.0%

Quality flags

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

Flag	Records
NO_DEPTH	1,751	100.0%
NO_MATCH	705	40.3%
MARINE_UNSURE	183	10.5%
NOT_MARINE	7	0.4%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME	2	0.1%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_UNRESOLVABLE	1	0.1%

Microbial communities in deep eastern Mediterranean Sea surface sediments

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Quality flags

Measurement types

DNA derived data