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 To the extent possible under law, the person who associated CC0 with this dataset has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this dataset.Description
NOAA’s Deep-Sea Coral Research and Technology Program (DSC-RTP) is compiling a national geodatabase of the known locations of deep-sea corals and sponges in U.S. territorial waters and beyond. The database will be comprehensive, standardized, quality controlled, and networked to outside resources. The database schema accommodates both linear (trawls, transects) and point (samples, observations) data. The structure of the database is tailored to occurrence records of all the azooxanthellate corals, a subset of all corals, and all sponge species. Records shallower than 50 m are generally excluded in order to focus on predominantly deep-water species – the mandate of the DSC-RTP. The intention is to limit the overlap with light-dependent (and mostly shallow-water) corals. Scope Themes: Biology Keywords: Marine/Coastal, A, Atlantic, ASW, Caribbean, ASW, Mexico Gulf, I, Pacific, PN, Arctic Geographical coverage A, Atlantic [Marine Regions] ASW, Caribbean [Marine Regions] ASW, Mexico Gulf [Marine Regions] I, Pacific [Marine Regions] PN, Arctic [Marine Regions] Temporal coverage
1842 - 2014 Parameter
Occurrence of biota Contributors
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), more, data creator
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Published in: OBIS-USA: US Ocean Biodiversity Informaton System, more Dataset status: In Progress
Data type: Data
Data origin: Data collection
Metadatarecord created: 2017-01-17
Information last updated: 2017-01-17
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