Evidence-backed facts
- The OBIS API exposes marine species occurrences, taxa, measurements, areas, datasets, nodes, checklists, maps, and aggregate statistics. informative
- Public reads require no user credential and do not grant dataset publication, species validation, provider, policy, or marine-management authority. informative
- Clients must bind taxon, geometry, area, depth, date, dataset, quality flags, fields, aggregation, limit, and offset and retain source dataset and occurrence identifiers. informative
- Occurrence data can be biased, duplicated, misidentified, imprecise, historical, or quality-flagged and does not prove current presence, abundance, ecological status, or management suitability. informative