Dataset

Marine and Coastal Management - Copepod Surveys

AfrOBIS Open in mapper Explore occurrences

Marine and Coastal Management (MCM) is one of four branches of the Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism. Their copepod data set has been collected from cruises around the South African Coast, and currently contains 91705 records of 9 families.

Citation
Marine and Coastal Management - Copepod Surveys
Published
December 02, 2020 at 14:08
License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License
URL
http://ipt.iobis.org/afrobis/resource?r=mcm_copepod
Archive
https://ipt.iobis.org/afrobis/archive.do?r=mcm_copepod

Contacts

Marine and Coastal Management Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism
Marine and Coastal Management Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism

Hans Verheije
Marine and Coastal Management; Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism

Ursula von St Ange
CSIR / SADCO / AfrOBIS

91,705
total submitted occurrences
91,705
accepted occurrences
15
taxa
4
species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 91,705
100.0%
occurrenceStatus 91,705
100.0%

Quality flags

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

Flag Dropped Records
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME 2,569
2.8%
DEPTH_EXCEEDS_BATH 444
0.5%

Measurement types

DNA derived data