Name: Motile Invertebrate Surveys - BC Central Coast
License: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License

This dataset collects data and information relating to mobile invertebrate surveys conducted in the rocky intertidal of Calvert Island BC, starting in 2016. Surveys were conducted using 5 permanent plots at each site, wherein motile invertebrate abundances were recorded within the whole plot and using smaller subplots.

Citation

Froese, T., Sadlier-Brown, G., Hessing-Lewis, M., & Gehman, A.-L. (2026). Motile Invertebrate Surveys - BC Central Coast (3.3.0) [Data set]. Hakai Institute. https://doi.org/10.21966/0052-wk15

Published

March 25, 2026 at 18:56

First registration

March 20, 2026 at 22:14

License

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

URL

https://ipt.iobis.org/obiscanada/resource?r=motile-invertebrate-surveys-bc-central-coast

Archive

https://ipt.iobis.org/obiscanada/archive.do?r=motile-invertebrate-surveys-bc-central-coast

Contacts

Tyrel Froese
Hakai Institute

Gillian Sadlier-Brown
Hakai Institute

Margot Hessing-Lewis
Hakai Institute

Alyssa Gehman
Hakai Institute

Hakai Institute
Hakai Institute

13,018

total submitted occurrences

13,018

accepted occurrences

5,284

measurements and facts

taxa

species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
maximumDepthInMeters	13,018		100.0%
minimumDepthInMeters	13,018		100.0%

Quality flags

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

Flag	Dropped	Records
NO_DEPTH		13,018	100.0%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME		6	0.0%

Motile Invertebrate Surveys - BC Central Coast

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Quality flags

Measurement types

DNA derived data