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Title: Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS) USA marine biogeographic records collected from 1843-01-01 to 2013-11-22, version as of 2015-01-16 (NCEI Accession 0140482)
Abstract: This dataset is a dump file from the PostgreSQL database of all of the marine biogeographic records available from the Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS) USA as of 2015-01-16. NCEI personnel prepared the subsets of the data and metadata records in comma separated value format (csv) easily readable by Excel.
Date received: 20150116
Start date: 18430101
End date: 20131122
Seanames: World-Wide Distribution
West boundary: -180
East boundary: 180
North boundary: 88.91
South boundary: -84.418
Observation types: biological
Instrument types: net, net - plankton net, net - zooplankton net, Niskin bottle, Optical plankton counter
Datatypes: biological data, PHYTOPLANKTON, PLANKTON, species abundance, SPECIES IDENTIFICATION, TAXONOMIC CODE, ZOOPLANKTON, ZOOPLANKTON ABUNDANCE
Submitter: Benson, Abigail
Submitting institution: US DOI; US Geological Survey
Collecting institutions: US DOI; US Geological Survey
Contributing projects: OBIS-USA
Platforms:
Number of observations:
Supplementary information: Data made accessible by OBIS-USA should be accessed via OBIS, the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), the OBIS-USA IPT, or the OBIS-USA Dataset Collection in ScienceBase.
Availability date:
Metadata version: 15
Keydate: 2016-01-11 21:14:42+00
Editdate: 2022-07-25 19:22:09+00