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
Affiliations
- Vincent M.P. Bouchet
- University Lille, CNRS, Univ. Littoral Côte d'Opale, UMR 8187, LOG, Laboratoire d'Océanologie et de Géosciences, Station Marine de Wimereux, F 59000, Lille, France; Corresponding author.
- Fabrizio Frontalini
- University Urbino Dipartimento di Scienze Pure e Applicate (DiSPeA), Università degli Studi di Urbino “Carlo Bo”, Campus Scientifico Enrico Mattei, Località Crocicchia, 61029, Urbino, Italy
- Fabio Francescangeli
- University of Hamburg, Institute for Geology, Centre for Earth System Research and Sustainability, Bundesstraße, 5520146 Hamburg, Germany
- Pierre-Guy Sauriau
- La Rochelle Université, CNRS, Littoral Environnement et Sociétés, UMR 7266 LIENSs, 2 rue Olympe de Gouges, 17000 La Rochelle, France
- Emmanuelle Geslin
- UMR CNRS 6112 LPG-BIAF, University of Angers, 2 Bd Lavoisier, Angers Cedex 1, 49045, France
- Maria Virginia Alves Martins
- Rio de Janeiro State University (UERJ), R. São Francisco Xavier, 524 - Lab 1006 - Maracanã, Rio de Janeiro 20550-900, Brazil; Aveiro University, Department of Geosciences, GeoBioTec, Campus de Santiago, 3810-197 Aveiro, Portugal
- Ahuva Almogi-Labin
- Geological Survey of Israel, Yesha'yahu Leibowitz 32, Jerusalem 9692100, Israel
- Simona Avnaim-Katav
- Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research, Haifa, 3108001, Israel
- Letizia Di Bella
- Dipartimento di Scienze Della Terra, Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy
- Alejandro Cearreta
- Departamento de Geología, Universidad del País Vasco UPV/EHU, Apartado 644, 48080 Bilbao, Spain
- Rodolfo Coccioni
- University Urbino Dipartimento di Scienze Pure e Applicate (DiSPeA), Università degli Studi di Urbino “Carlo Bo”, Campus Scientifico Enrico Mattei, Località Crocicchia, 61029, Urbino, Italy
- Ashleigh Costelloe
- BioStratigraphic Associates (Trinidad) Limited, 113 Frederick Settlement, Old Southern Main Rd., Caroni, Trinidad and Tobago
- Margarita D. Dimiza
- National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Faculty of Geology and Geoenvironment, Panepistimioupolis, 15784, Athens, Greece
- Luciana Ferraro
- CNR, Institute of Marine Sciences, National Research Council of Italy, Calata Porta di Massa, Naples, Italy
- Kristin Haynert
- University of Göttingen, J.F. Blumenbach Institute of Zoology and Anthropology, Göttingen
- Michael Martínez-Colón
- Florida A&M University, School of the Environment, FL, USA; FSH Science Research Center, RM306B, 1515 South MLK Blvd, Tallahassee, FL 32307, USA
- Romana Melis
- Department of Mathematics and Geosciences, 34127 Trieste, Italy
- Magali Schweizer
- UMR CNRS 6112 LPG-BIAF, University of Angers, 2 Bd Lavoisier, Angers Cedex 1, 49045, France
- Maria V. Triantaphyllou
- National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Faculty of Geology and Geoenvironment, Panepistimioupolis, 15784, Athens, Greece
- Akira Tsujimoto
- Faculty of Education, Shimane University, 1060 Nishikawatsucho, Matsue, Shimane 690-8504, Japan
- Brent Wilson
- Cedar Lodge, Maenygroes, Cei Newydd, Ceredigion, Wales SA45 9RL, UK
- Eric Armynot du Châtelet
- University Lille, CNRS, University Littoral Côte d'Opale, UMR 8187, LOG, Laboratoire d'Océanologie et de Géosciences, F 59000, Lille, France
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 35
p. 106920
Abstract
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].
