******************** MarBAS PACKAGE ********************************
                     
                     Version 05.02.2020

The MarBAS package accompanies:
Lewandowska A.M., Jonkers L., Auel H., Freund J.A., Hagen W., Kucera M., Hillebrand H. 
Scale dependence of temporal biodiversity change in modern and fossil marine plankton.
Global Ecology and Biogeography. DOI: 10.1111/geb.13078

This data base contains results of time series analysis of planktonic foraminifera diversity. Original data on foraminifera community composition used in this analysis were obtained from literature and all data sources are listed in the Appendix S1 (Supporting Information Online).

Please, contact me if you use the MarBAS data or if you require additional information on any single study. The original data can only be obtained from data providers on request.


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1. MarBASforDryad_GEB_diversity.csv

This file contains results of time series analysis of foraminifera diversity trends (richness and effective number of species). See the accompanying article for details.

Variable names:

groupID - time category
Site Ð site ID
age Ð age [kyr BP] (present being 2016)
ENS Ð effective number of species
S Ð species richness

2. MarBASforDryad_GEB_turnover.csv

This file contains results of time series analysis of foraminifera turnover trends (JaccardÕs dissimilarity and WishartÕs dissimilarity). See the accompanying article for details.

Variable names:

groupID - time category
Site Ð site ID
age Ð age [kyr BP] (present being 2016)
dist Ð temporal distance [kyr]
Jaccard Ð JaccardÕs dissimilarity [0:1]
Wishart Ð WishartÕs dissimilarity [0:1]