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

doi:10.1016/j.dib.2021.106920

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

Data Brief. 2021 Feb 27:35:106920. doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2021.106920. eCollection 2021 Apr.

Authors

Vincent M P Bouchet¹, Fabrizio Frontalini², Fabio Francescangeli³, Pierre-Guy Sauriau⁴, Emmanuelle Geslin⁵, Maria Virginia Alves Martins^{6

7}, Ahuva Almogi-Labin⁸, Simona Avnaim-Katav⁹, Letizia Di Bella¹⁰, Alejandro Cearreta¹¹, Rodolfo Coccioni², Ashleigh Costelloe¹², Margarita D Dimiza¹³, Luciana Ferraro¹⁴, Kristin Haynert¹⁵, Michael Martínez-Colón^{16

17}, Romana Melis¹⁸, Magali Schweizer⁵, Maria V Triantaphyllou¹³, Akira Tsujimoto¹⁹, Brent Wilson²⁰, Eric Armynot du Châtelet²¹

Affiliations

¹ 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.
² 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.
³ University of Hamburg, Institute for Geology, Centre for Earth System Research and Sustainability, Bundesstraße, 5520146 Hamburg, Germany.
⁴ La Rochelle Université, CNRS, Littoral Environnement et Sociétés, UMR 7266 LIENSs, 2 rue Olympe de Gouges, 17000 La Rochelle, France.
⁵ UMR CNRS 6112 LPG-BIAF, University of Angers, 2 Bd Lavoisier, Angers Cedex 1, 49045, France.
⁶ Rio de Janeiro State University (UERJ), R. São Francisco Xavier, 524 - Lab 1006 - Maracanã, Rio de Janeiro 20550-900, Brazil.
⁷ Aveiro University, Department of Geosciences, GeoBioTec, Campus de Santiago, 3810-197 Aveiro, Portugal.
⁸ Geological Survey of Israel, Yesha'yahu Leibowitz 32, Jerusalem 9692100, Israel.
⁹ Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research, Haifa, 3108001, Israel.
¹⁰ Dipartimento di Scienze Della Terra, Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy.
¹¹ Departamento de Geología, Universidad del País Vasco UPV/EHU, Apartado 644, 48080 Bilbao, Spain.
¹² BioStratigraphic Associates (Trinidad) Limited, 113 Frederick Settlement, Old Southern Main Rd., Caroni, Trinidad and Tobago.
¹³ National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Faculty of Geology and Geoenvironment, Panepistimioupolis, 15784, Athens, Greece.
¹⁴ CNR, Institute of Marine Sciences, National Research Council of Italy, Calata Porta di Massa, Naples, Italy.
¹⁵ University of Göttingen, J.F. Blumenbach Institute of Zoology and Anthropology, Göttingen.
¹⁶ Florida A&M University, School of the Environment, FL, USA.
¹⁷ FSH Science Research Center, RM306B, 1515 South MLK Blvd, Tallahassee, FL 32307, USA.
¹⁸ Department of Mathematics and Geosciences, 34127 Trieste, Italy.
¹⁹ Faculty of Education, Shimane University, 1060 Nishikawatsucho, Matsue, Shimane 690-8504, Japan.
²⁰ Cedar Lodge, Maenygroes, Cei Newydd, Ceredigion, Wales SA45 9RL, UK.
²¹ University Lille, CNRS, University Littoral Côte d'Opale, UMR 8187, LOG, Laboratoire d'Océanologie et de Géosciences, F 59000, Lille, France.

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].

Keywords: English channel; European atlantic coast; Intertidal areas; Living Benthic foraminifera; Mediterranean sea; Relative abundances; Total organic carbon; Transitional waters.