Downcore Foraminifera Data (NERC grant NE/J023329/1)
This dataset comprises a record of benthic foraminifera count data from three cores that were analysed to assess down core changes in foraminifera abundance from the Paluma Shoals reef complex, Halifax Bay, central Great Barrier Reef, Australia; cores OPS-PC2, OPS-C-PC1 and OPS-D-PC1. The site/core names relate to the sites described in the following paper: Morgan KM, Perry CT, Smithers SG, Daniell JJ and Johnson JA (2016) Extensive reef development within the “mesophotic” nearshore Great Barrier Reef: Evidence for intra-regional variations in coral resilience. Scientific Reports 6:29616. DOI: 10.1038/srep29616.
dataset
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http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13607488
English
Geoscientific information
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0:
BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences:
Barrier reefs
Coral reefs
Foraminifera
NGDC Deposited Data
Free:
Free:
NERC_DDC
146.2500,
-19.3500,
147.0000,
-18.5500
QUEENSLAND [id=580000]
creation: 2019-07-15
2013-07-01
-
2014-07-31
University of Exeter
Professor Chris Perry
Amory Building, Rennes Drive,
Exeter,
EX4 4RJ
email:
not available
Role: point of contact
University of Exeter
Professor Chris Perry
Amory Building, Rennes Drive,
Exeter,
EX4 4RJ
email:
not available
Role: principal investigator
Data Quality
Samples for foraminiferal analysis were wet sieved to remove the < 63 ?m sediment fractions . After sieving, samples were oven dried (60 °C for 24 hours) before further sieving to remove any gravel (i.e., > 4 mm) and residual mud. A 1 cm3 split was obtained from the retained sediment fractions (i.e., between 63 ?m and 4 mm) from each sample using a riffle splitter. Foraminiferal assemblages were characterised for each sample split by counting and identifying a total of 300 tests, creating a multivariate dataset containing 66 samples and over 19,000 individual specimens. For full details see: Johnson JA, Perry CT, Smithers SG, Morgan KM, Woodroffe SA. (2019) Reef shallowing is a critical control on benthic foraminiferal assemblage composition on nearshore turbid coral reefs. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2019.109240
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Constraints
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Metadata about metadata
8e06c994-7328-4241-e054-002128a47908
British Geological Survey
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United Kingdom
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2024-04-24