ForCenS, a curated database of planktonic foraminifera census counts in marine surface sediment samples.

ABSTRACT: Census counts of marine microfossils in surface sediments represent an invaluable resource for paleoceanography and for the investigation of macroecological processes. A prerequisite for such applications is the provision of data syntheses for individual microfossil groups. Specific to such syntheses is the necessity of taxonomical harmonisation across the constituent datasets, coupled with dereplication of previous compilations. Both of these aspects require expert knowledge, but with increasing number of records involved in such syntheses, the application of expert knowledge via manual curation is not feasible. Here we present a synthesis of planktonic foraminifera census counts in surface sediment samples, which is taxonomically harmonised, dereplicated and treated for numerical and oth

SUBMITTER: Siccha M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5566098 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature