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).
| Taxon |
GBIF Occurences |
NCBI Match |
eDNA Match |
|
Normalized Taxa
Eukaryota, Animalia, Annelida
GBIF
Animalia, Annelida
GBIF ID: 42
NCBI
Eukaryota, Metazoa, Annelida
NCBI ID: 6340,
CALeDNA page
|
92 |
|
|
|
Normalized Taxa
Eukaryota, Animalia, Arthropoda
GBIF
Animalia, Arthropoda
GBIF ID: 54
NCBI
Eukaryota, Metazoa, Arthropoda
NCBI ID: 6656,
CALeDNA page
|
785 |
|
|
|
Normalized Taxa
Eukaryota, Animalia, Bryozoa
GBIF
Animalia, Bryozoa
GBIF ID: 53
NCBI
Eukaryota, Metazoa, Bryozoa
NCBI ID: 10205,
CALeDNA page
|
44 |
|
|
|
Normalized Taxa
Eukaryota, Animalia, Chordata
GBIF
Animalia, Chordata
GBIF ID: 44
NCBI
Eukaryota, Metazoa, Chordata
NCBI ID: 7711,
CALeDNA page
|
1551 |
|
|
|
Normalized Taxa
Eukaryota, Animalia, Cnidaria
GBIF
Animalia, Cnidaria
GBIF ID: 43
NCBI
Eukaryota, Metazoa, Cnidaria
NCBI ID: 6073,
CALeDNA page
|
983 |
|
|
|
Normalized Taxa
Eukaryota, Animalia, Echinodermata
GBIF
Animalia, Echinodermata
GBIF ID: 50
NCBI
Eukaryota, Metazoa, Echinodermata
NCBI ID: 7586,
CALeDNA page
|
1601 |
|
|
|
Normalized Taxa
Eukaryota, Animalia, Mollusca
GBIF
Animalia, Mollusca
GBIF ID: 52
NCBI
Eukaryota, Metazoa, Mollusca
NCBI ID: 6447,
CALeDNA page
|
7762 |
|
|
|
Normalized Taxa
Eukaryota, Animalia, Nemertea
GBIF
Animalia, Nemertea
GBIF ID: 63
NCBI
Eukaryota, Metazoa, Nemertea
NCBI ID: 6217,
CALeDNA page
|
14 |
|
|
|
Normalized Taxa
Eukaryota, Animalia, Phoronida
GBIF
Animalia, Phoronida
GBIF ID: 19
NCBI
Eukaryota, Metazoa, Brachiopoda
NCBI ID: 120557,
CALeDNA page
|
6 |
|
|
|
Normalized Taxa
Eukaryota, Animalia, Platyhelminthes
GBIF
Animalia, Platyhelminthes
GBIF ID: 108
NCBI
Eukaryota, Metazoa, Platyhelminthes
NCBI ID: 6157,
CALeDNA page
|
23 |
|
|
|
Normalized Taxa
Eukaryota, Animalia, Porifera
GBIF
Animalia, Porifera
GBIF ID: 105
NCBI
Eukaryota, Metazoa, Porifera
NCBI ID: 6040,
CALeDNA page
|
22 |
|
|
|
Normalized Taxa
Eukaryota, Animalia, Sipuncula
GBIF
Animalia, Sipuncula
GBIF ID: 74
NCBI
Eukaryota, Metazoa, Annelida
NCBI ID: 6433,
CALeDNA page
|
14 |
|
|
|
Normalized Taxa
Eukaryota, Chromista, Ochrophyta
GBIF
Chromista, Ochrophyta
GBIF ID: 98
NCBI
|
307 |
|
|
|
Normalized Taxa
Eukaryota, Fungi, Ascomycota
GBIF
Fungi, Ascomycota
GBIF ID: 95
NCBI
Eukaryota, Fungi, Ascomycota
NCBI ID: 4890,
CALeDNA page
|
13 |
|
|
|
Normalized Taxa
Eukaryota, Fungi, Basidiomycota
GBIF
Fungi, Basidiomycota
GBIF ID: 34
NCBI
Eukaryota, Fungi, Basidiomycota
NCBI ID: 5204,
CALeDNA page
|
1 |
|
|
|
Normalized Taxa
Eukaryota, Plantae, Chlorophyta
GBIF
Plantae, Chlorophyta
GBIF ID: 36
NCBI
Eukaryota, Viridiplantae, Chlorophyta
NCBI ID: 3041,
CALeDNA page
|
41 |
|
|
|
Normalized Taxa
Eukaryota, Plantae, Rhodophyta
GBIF
Plantae, Rhodophyta
GBIF ID: 106
GBIF ID: NULL
NCBI
Eukaryota, --, --
NCBI ID: 2763,
CALeDNA page
|
349 |
|
|
|
Normalized Taxa
Eukaryota, Plantae, Tracheophyta
GBIF
Plantae, Tracheophyta
GBIF ID: 7707728
NCBI
Eukaryota, Viridiplantae, Streptophyta
NCBI ID: 58023,
CALeDNA page
|
315 |
|
|
|
Normalized Taxa
Eukaryota, Protozoa, Choanozoa
GBIF
Fungi, Ascomycota
GBIF ID: 95
NCBI
Eukaryota, --, --
NCBI ID: 28009,
CALeDNA page
|
1 |
|
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