Depth‑resolved CHI metrics, ecological preference indices, and coccolith species percentages for core DA12‑11/2‑ST1‑GC01

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This dataset presents the full suite of ecological component scores, contrast indices, and Coccolithophore Hydrographic Index (CHI) transformations calculated for each sample of core DA12 11/2 ST1 GC01. For every depth and corresponding calibrated age, the table reports warm water, cold water, high salinity, low salinity, oligotrophic, nutrient rich, stratified, and mixing ecological sum indices, each representing the cumulative abundance of taxa assigned to a given ecological affinity. These sums form the basis for the hydrographic contrast indices, computed as the difference between opposing ecological sums (e.g., thermal contrast = warm_sum − cold_sum; salinity contrast = highSal_sum − lowSal_sum; nutrient contrast = oligotrophic_sum − nutrient_sum; stratification/mixing contrast = stratified_sum − mixing_sum). The contrasts quantify the ecological polarity of each assemblage and serve as the input structure for the CHI calculation. CHI values were derived by combining all four contrasts into a single dimensionless hydrographic proxy, subsequently transformed through log₁₀ scaling, z score standardization, and tanh normalization to enhance distributional behaviour and comparability across samples. This table also includes raw species percentages for all identified coccolithophore taxa, enabling direct linkage between ecological composition and hydrographic state. Together, these parameters provide a detailed, sample by sample reconstruction of ecological structure and hydrographic variability throughout the Holocene.

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DOI https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.996253
Related Identifier IsPartOf https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.996263
Metadata Access https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite4&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.996253
Provenance
Creator Ukpabi, Ndubuisi ORCID logo; Seidenkrantz, Marit-Solveig ORCID logo
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2026
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
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Resource Type Dataset
Format text/tab-separated-values
Size 2160 data points
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (-20.703 LON, 61.609 LAT); Iceland Basin