This dataset describes the Arctic plankton species and diversity in a study area northwest of Russia. It consists of a large database of 37,300 records from 1993-2003. A total of 434 species are represented.

Published: September 04, 2019 at 10:54

URL: http://geo.abds.is/ipt/resource?r=arcod_2007p6

Russ Hopcroft
University of Alaska Fairbanks - School of Fisheries and Oceans

37,325

occurrence records

371

taxa

342

species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	37,325		100.0%
minimumDepthInMeters	37,325		100.0%
scientificNameID		2,946	7.9%

Quality flags

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

Flag	Records
DEPTH_EXCEEDS_BATH	20,460	54.8%
ON_LAND	8,006	21.4%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME	4,487	12.0%
NO_MATCH	2,900	7.8%
MARINE_UNSURE	1,747	4.7%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_REJECT_GROUPING	1,447	3.9%
NOT_MARINE	607	1.6%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_RESOLVABLE	46	0.1%

Phytoplankton from the White Sea, Barents Sea, Norwegian Sea and Arctic Basin 1993-2003

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Quality flags

Measurement types

DNA derived data