Surface area:biomass relationship for Sargassum fluitans and Sargassum natans from Sisal Beach, Mexico

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To establish the surface area : biomass relationship of pelagic Sargassum spp., individual thalli of beach-cast Sargassum fluitans and Sargassum natans were collected at Sisal Beach, Yucatan peninsula, Mexico in November 2016. 22 thalli each of both species were collected. Additionally, three thalli of an additional species were collected. This species could not be clearly identified and the thalli were not further considered for analysis. Each thalli was blotted with tissue paper to remove adherent seawater and weighed on the beach using a spring balance. Subsequently, the single parts of the thalli (blades, pneumatocysts, stipes) were separated from each other, spread in a tray and photographed together with a ruler as a size reference and a label. The two dimensional projection area of each thallus part was determined using an image analysis software from which the surface area of each three dimensional structure was calculated to obtain the total surface area of the thallus.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.931835
Related Identifier https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.931845
Metadata Access https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite4&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.931835
Provenance
Creator Gutow, Lars ORCID logo; Petersen, Imke; Giménez, Luis; Thiel, Martin; Rivedeneira, Marcelo M
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2021
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
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Language English
Resource Type Dataset
Format text/tab-separated-values
Size 372 data points
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (-89.720 LON, 21.270 LAT)
Temporal Coverage Begin 2016-11-02T00:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2016-11-03T00:00:00Z