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GBIF Taxonomic Comparison

To get a better understanding of the GBIF data, we examined the data at various taxonomic levels. By sorting the data by the number of occurrences, we found out that sea slugs (order: Nudibranchia) made up 40% of the GBIF observations. Human observations usually tend to photograph animals.

To find out how eDNA complements GBIF data, we looked at whether or not there was a eDNA match for each GBIF taxa. While eDNA and GBIF have a high match rate at the higher taxonomic levels (phylum, class, order), there is low match rate at lower taxonomic levels (genus and species).

GBIF unique genus: 563

GBIF unique genus with NCBI ID: 538

GBIF unique genus with eDNA match: 93

Taxon	GBIF Occurences	NCBI Match	eDNA Match
Normalized Taxa Eukaryota, Plantae, Tracheophyta, Magnoliopsida, Poales, Poaceae, Distichlis GBIF Plantae, Tracheophyta, Liliopsida, Poales, Poaceae, Distichlis GBIF ID: 2704508 NCBI	7
Normalized Taxa Eukaryota, Plantae, Tracheophyta, Magnoliopsida, Poales, Poaceae, Hordeum GBIF Plantae, Tracheophyta, Liliopsida, Poales, Poaceae, Hordeum GBIF ID: 2706050 NCBI	1
Normalized Taxa Eukaryota, Plantae, Tracheophyta, Magnoliopsida, Poales, Poaceae, Polypogon GBIF Plantae, Tracheophyta, Liliopsida, Poales, Poaceae, Polypogon GBIF ID: 2704396 NCBI	1
Normalized Taxa Eukaryota, Plantae, Tracheophyta, Magnoliopsida, Ranunculales, Papaveraceae, Eschscholzia GBIF Plantae, Tracheophyta, Magnoliopsida, Ranunculales, Papaveraceae, Eschscholzia GBIF ID: 2888379 NCBI	6
Normalized Taxa Eukaryota, Plantae, Tracheophyta, Magnoliopsida, Rosales, Rhamnaceae, Frangula GBIF Plantae, Tracheophyta, Magnoliopsida, Rosales, Rhamnaceae, Frangula GBIF ID: 3039453 NCBI	2
Normalized Taxa Eukaryota, Plantae, Tracheophyta, Magnoliopsida, Rosales, Rosaceae, Fragaria GBIF Plantae, Tracheophyta, Magnoliopsida, Rosales, Rosaceae, Fragaria GBIF ID: 3029779 NCBI	4
Normalized Taxa Eukaryota, Plantae, Tracheophyta, Magnoliopsida, Rosales, Rosaceae, Rubus GBIF Plantae, Tracheophyta, Magnoliopsida, Rosales, Rosaceae, Rubus GBIF ID: 2988638 NCBI	2
Normalized Taxa Eukaryota, Plantae, Tracheophyta, Magnoliopsida, Saxifragales, Crassulaceae, Dudleya GBIF Plantae, Tracheophyta, Magnoliopsida, Saxifragales, Crassulaceae, Dudleya GBIF ID: 2985872 NCBI	3
Normalized Taxa Eukaryota, Plantae, Tracheophyta, Magnoliopsida, Solanales, Convolvulaceae, Convolvulus GBIF Plantae, Tracheophyta, Magnoliopsida, Solanales, Convolvulaceae, Convolvulus GBIF ID: 2928386 NCBI	1
Normalized Taxa Eukaryota, Plantae, Tracheophyta, Pinopsida, Pinales, Cupressaceae, Cupressus GBIF Plantae, Tracheophyta, Pinopsida, Pinales, Cupressaceae, Cupressus GBIF ID: 2683954 NCBI	1
Normalized Taxa Eukaryota, Plantae, Tracheophyta, Polypodiopsida, Equisetales, Equisetaceae, Equisetum GBIF Plantae, Tracheophyta, Equisetopsida, Equisetales, Equisetaceae, Equisetum GBIF ID: 2687913 NCBI Eukaryota, Viridiplantae, Streptophyta, Polypodiopsida, Equisetales, Equisetaceae, Equisetum NCBI ID: 3257, CALeDNA page	2
Normalized Taxa Eukaryota, Plantae, Tracheophyta, Polypodiopsida, Polypodiales, Dennstaedtiaceae, Pteridium GBIF Plantae, Tracheophyta, Polypodiopsida, Polypodiales, Dennstaedtiaceae, Pteridium GBIF ID: 9744831 NCBI	1
Normalized Taxa Eukaryota, Protozoa, Choanozoa, Choanoflagellatea, Craspedida, Mycosphaerellaceae, Ramularia GBIF Fungi, Ascomycota, Dothideomycetes, Mycosphaerellales, Mycosphaerellaceae, Ramularia GBIF ID: 2513169 NCBI Eukaryota, Fungi, Ascomycota, Dothideomycetes, Capnodiales, Mycosphaerellaceae, Ramularia NCBI ID: 112497, CALeDNA page	1