Published November 14, 2022 | Version 01a
Dataset Open

MARBEN database

Creators

  • 1. Earth Science Institute, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, 84005, Slovakia
  • 2. Department of Paleobiology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20560, USA
  • 3. School of Biological Sciences, Area of Ecology and Biodiversity, Swire Institute of Marine Science, Institute for Climate and Carbon Neutrality, Musketeers Foundation Institute of Data Science, The University of Hong Kong, Kadoorie Biological Sciences Building, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong SAR, China

Description

MARBEN database is a compilation of time series with marine (both shelf and deep-sea) benthic fossil assemblages 
(with foraminifers or ostracods) with abundance or presence-absence data collected in the Cenozoic stratigraphic 
successions (primarily from sediment cores). Each time series/sediment core is associated with an age model 
cited in the original publication with source time series data or updated for a given sediment core later. 
This output was supported by the Paleosynthesis Project and the Volkswagen Stiftung for funding that supported 
the Biodeeptime project (Az 96 796) and by the Slovak Agency for Research and Development /APVV 22-0523/.

The object MARBEN has the following columns - 
db - database name                         
Longitude - core longitude              
Latitude - core latitude
Core_ID - core label/ID  
SampleID_original - sample label/ID  /as used in the original publication/        
ka  - sample age in kyr BP                 
Min ka (BP) - minimum sample age in kyr BP                
Max ka (BP) - maximum sample age in kyr BP                  
mbsf - distance in meters below the seafloor /or below the sampling level in cores or outcrops sampled on land/                
Water depth (m)  - water depth /m/             

Data unit - information about the nature of counts - # - count /volume or weight not specified/,
#/X - abundance per a given volume or weight, % - relative abundance, presence - presence-absence data
             
Quota - average quota of individuals counted in assemblage census /e.g., 300, but can be lower if total N is smaller/               
Mesh size - mesh size in um                 
Reference - reference                 
Parameter_original - species name  /or higher-level taxon in open nomenclature/           
Value - abundance                   
Parameter_std - species name  /or higher-level taxon in open nomenclature/                
Taxon - Higher-taxon name /benthic foraminifers or ostracods/                 
Parameter_openNomenclature  - open nomenclature status
Parameter_type  - taxonomic rank of determination - species, genus or family

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