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- The study collected data on total organic carbon percentages and benthic foraminifera abundances from 587 samples in the English Channel/European Atlantic Coast and 301 samples in the Mediterranean Sea.
- Using this data, researchers calculated the optimal and tolerance ranges of total organic carbon for benthic foraminifera to categorize them into different ecological sensitivity groups.
- The findings are part of a research article that discusses the potential of benthic foraminifera as indicators for biomonitoring environmental health in intertidal and transitional water ecosystems.
Article 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Channel/European Atlantic Coast (587 samples) and the Mediterranean Sea (301 samples) regions from published and unpublished datasets.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].
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