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The UK OBIS Node is hosted at the Marine Biological Association (MBA) in Plymouth, UK. The MBA is one of the world’s longest-running societies dedicated to promoting research into our oceans and the life they support. Since 1884 we have been providing a unified, clear, independent voice on behalf of the marine biological community and currently have a growing membership in over 40 countries. We also run a leading marine biological research laboratory where many eminent scientists - including 7 Nobel prize winners - have carried out their research.

Dan Lear
dble@mba.ac.uk

Chloe Figueroa Ashforth
chlfig@mba.ac.uk

Ellen Jones
elljon@mba.ac.uk

Kevin Paxman
kevpax@mba.ac.uk

Emma Seal
emmsea@mba.ac.uk

17,051,316
occurrence records
22,044
taxa
17,806
species
282
datasets

Datasets

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
basisOfRecord 132,992
0.8%
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 15,747,685 71
92.4%
decimalLatitude 1,703
0.0%
decimalLongitude 1,703
0.0%
eventDate 4,140,393 9
24.3%
individualCount 5,794
0.0%
maximumDepthInMeters 3,788,899 132,994
23.0%
minimumDepthInMeters 3,922,651 132,992
23.8%
occurrenceStatus 6,404,996 110,624
38.2%
scientificName 641,938
3.8%
scientificNameID 424,900 1,281,530
10.0%

Quality flags

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

Flag Dropped Records
NO_DEPTH 3,638,037
21.3%
NO_MATCH 1,352,124
7.9%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME 739,687
4.3%
ON_LAND 473,949
2.8%
MARINE_UNSURE 213,391
1.3%
DEPTH_EXCEEDS_BATH 93,484
0.5%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_REJECT_AMBIGUOUS 19,965
0.1%
NOT_MARINE 14,935
0.1%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_RESOLVABLE_LOSS 7,877
0.0%
NO_COORD 1,703
0.0%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_REJECT_GROUPING 1,698
0.0%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_RESOLVABLE 1,595
0.0%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_UNRESOLVABLE 869
0.0%
MIN_DEPTH_EXCEEDS_MAX 315
0.0%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_NO_BIOTA 41
0.0%
DATE_IN_FUTURE 5
0.0%