National Benthic Inventory

Occurrence
Latest version published by United States Geological Survey on Oct 29, 2019 United States Geological Survey
Home:
https://nbi.noaa.gov
Publication date:
29 October 2019
License:
CC0 1.0

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Description

The NOAA National Benthic Inventory (NBI) is a dynamic quantitative database on benthic species distributions obtained from studies conducted by NOAA and partnering institutions in estuarine and coastal-ocean areas of the United States.

Data Records

The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 202,122 records.

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Versions

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How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

NOAA (2018): National Benthic Inventory. v1. GBIF Secretariat. Dataset/Occurrence. https://nccos-coastalscience-products-web-ipt.azurewebsites.net/

Rights

Researchers should respect the following rights statement:

The publisher and rights holder of this work is United States Geological Survey. To the extent possible under law, the publisher has waived all rights to these data and has dedicated them to the Public Domain (CC0 1.0). Users may copy, modify, distribute and use the work, including for commercial purposes, without restriction.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 5199d77b-fc69-4c85-94f2-4d3e63e777ff.  United States Geological Survey publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF-US.

Keywords

Occurrence; benthic; infauna; macroinfauna

Contacts

Len Balthis
  • Point Of Contact
  • Marine Biologist
NOAA/NCCOS
  • 219 Ft. Johnson Rd
29412 Charleston
SC
US
  • 843-460-9656
Kirk Yedinak
  • User
Len Balthis
  • Point Of Contact
  • Marine Biologist
NOAA National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science

Geographic Coverage

U.S.

Bounding Coordinates South West [16, -162], North East [50, -64]

Taxonomic Coverage

Benthic infauna (Kingdom Animalia) collected throughout estuarine and coastal shelf areas of the U.S.

Kingdom Animalia

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 1991-03-18 / 2017-10-14

Project Data

No Description available

Title National Benthic Inventory

The personnel involved in the project:

Balthis
  • Point Of Contact

Sampling Methods

Benthic sediments

Study Extent U.S.

Method step description:

  1. Methods for the associated projects are described in the National Benthic Inventory web site (https://products.coastalscience.noaa.gov/nbi/).

Additional Metadata

Marine, harvest by iOBIS

Alternative Identifiers 5199d77b-fc69-4c85-94f2-4d3e63e777ff
https://www1.usgs.gov/obis-usa/ipt/resource?r=noaa_nbi