Dataset

Ross Sea Biodiversity Survey 2004 (BioRoss)

SWP OBIS Open in mapper Explore occurrences

Marine biological data from the 2004 voyage of the R/V Tangaroa (TAN0402) to the Ross Sea, Antarctica. The main objective of the New Zealand Ministry of Fisheries project (BioRoss) was to carry out a quantitative survey of the biodiversity of selected marine communities in the Ross Sea region, including the Balleny Islands.

Citation
NIWA (2014). 2004 Ross Sea Biodiversity Survey (BIOROSS) data. Southwestern Pacific OBIS, National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, Wellington, New Zealand, 4093 records, Online http://nzobisipt.niwa.co.nz/resource.do?r=mbis_caml released on June 18, 2014.
Published
August 08, 2018 at 21:08
License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License
URL
https://nzobisipt.niwa.co.nz/resource?r=mbis_caml
Archive
https://nzobisipt.niwa.co.nz/archive.do?r=mbis_caml

Contacts

Kevin Mackay
NIWA

4,092
total submitted occurrences
4,084
accepted occurrences
684
taxa
428
species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
maximumDepthInMeters 2
0.0%
minimumDepthInMeters 2
0.0%
scientificNameID 5 3
0.2%

Quality flags

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

Flag Dropped Records
DEPTH_EXCEEDS_BATH 441
10.8%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME 9
0.2%
NO_MATCH 8
0.2%
NO_DEPTH 2
0.0%

Measurement types

DNA derived data