Fish debris abundance and fluxes in sediment core M77/2_024-5

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This dataset includes fish vertebrae abundances and fluxes obtained from core M77/2-024-5. Sediment core M77/2-024-5 (11°05.01'S; 78°00.91'W) was collected at 210 meters depth off Peru during Meteor expedition M77/2 in 2008 (Meteor station No. M772/677). Fish debris quantification and identification were determined in 60 samples along core M77/2-024-5 from 1093 to 1388 cm depth corresponding to 110.7 to 137.8 kyr BP. Sediment samples consisted of an average of 41 g of wet material, which yields 16.3 g of dry sediment. The fish vertebrae identification includes the following species/groups: anchovy (Engraulis ringens), goby-like fishes, juvenile fishes, Vinciguerria lucetia, hake (Merluccius gayi peruanus), blue lanternfish (Tarletonbeania crenularis), eel-shaped fish and other unidentified species. The fish debris were quantified and identified with the help of scale and vertebrae collections. The fish debris fluxes (#debris × cm−2 × y-1) were calculated by multiplying the fish debris abundance (number of fish debris x g-1) by the sedimentation rates (cm x y-1) by the dry bulk density (g x cm-3). Finally, the fluxes were multiplied by 1000.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.940844
Related Identifier References https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abj0270
Related Identifier IsVariantFormOf https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5613922
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Creator Salvatteci, Renato ORCID logo
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2022
Funding Reference German Research Foundation https://doi.org/10.13039/501100001659 Crossref Funder ID 27542298 https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/27542298 Climate - Biogeochemistry Interactions in the Tropical Ocean
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Resource Type Dataset
Format text/tab-separated-values
Size 2160 data points
Discipline Biogeochemistry; Biospheric Sciences; Geosciences; Natural Sciences
Spatial Coverage (-78.015 LON, -11.084 LAT)