Data in Brief (Apr 2021)

Relative abundances of benthic foraminifera in response to total organic carbon in sediments: Data from European intertidal areas and transitional waters

  • Vincent M.P. Bouchet,
  • Fabrizio Frontalini,
  • Fabio Francescangeli,
  • Pierre-Guy Sauriau,
  • Emmanuelle Geslin,
  • Maria Virginia Alves Martins,
  • Ahuva Almogi-Labin,
  • Simona Avnaim-Katav,
  • Letizia Di Bella,
  • Alejandro Cearreta,
  • Rodolfo Coccioni,
  • Ashleigh Costelloe,
  • Margarita D. Dimiza,
  • Luciana Ferraro,
  • Kristin Haynert,
  • Michael Martínez-Colón,
  • Romana Melis,
  • Magali Schweizer,
  • Maria V. Triantaphyllou,
  • Akira Tsujimoto,
  • Brent Wilson,
  • Eric Armynot du Châtelet

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 35
p. 106920

Abstract

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We gathered total organic carbon (%) and relative abundances of benthic foraminifera in intertidal areas and transitional waters from the English Channel/European Atlantic Coast (587 samples) and the Mediterranean Sea (301 samples) regions from published and unpublished datasets. This database allowed to calculate total organic carbon optimum and tolerance range of benthic foraminifera in order to assign them to ecological groups of sensitivity. Optima and tolerance range were obtained by mean of the weighted-averaging method. The data are related to the research article titled “Indicative value of benthic foraminifera for biomonitoring: assignment to ecological groups of sensitivity to total organic carbon of species from European intertidal areas and transitional waters” [1].

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