Dataset

Ross Sea Biodiversity Survey 2004 (BioRoss)

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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

URL: https://nzobisipt.niwa.co.nz/resource?r=mbis_caml

Kevin Mackay
NIWA

4,092
occurrence records
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