Laser ablation data of benthic foraminifera from surface sediments collected from the muddy intertidal flats near Dorum, Northwestern Germany in Autumn 2008 ...

• Main Authors: de Nooijer, Lennart Jan, Hathorne, Ed C, Reichart, Gert-Jan, Langer, Gerald, Bijma, Jelle
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2015
• Subjects: Group; Sample ID; Sample code/label; Name; Number; Calcium; Gain; Boron-11; Magensium 25; Aluminium-27; Calcium-43; Manganese-55; Zinc-66; Strontium-88; Barium-137; Uranium-238; Sampling by hand; LA-ICP-MS, Laser-ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer; Biological Impacts of Ocean Acidification BIOACID; Ocean acidification
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.841906; https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.841906

Biological activity introduces variability in element incorporation during calcification and thereby decreases the precision and accuracy when using foraminifera as geochemical proxies in paleoceanography. This so-called 'vital effect' consists of organismal and environmental components. Whereas organismal effects include uptake of ions from seawater and subsequent processing upon calcification, environmental effects include migration- and seasonality-induced differences. Triggering asexual reproduction and culturing juveniles of the benthic foraminifer Ammonia tepida under constant, controlled conditions allow environmental and genetic variability to be removed and the effect of cell-physiological controls on element incorporation to be quantified. Three groups of clones were cultured under constant conditions while determining their growth rates, size-normalized weights and single-chamber Mg/Ca and Sr/Ca using laser ablation-inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS). Results show no ... : Supplement to: de Nooijer, Lennart Jan; Hathorne, Ed C; Reichart, Gert-Jan; Langer, Gerald; Bijma, Jelle (2014): Variability in calcitic Mg/Ca and Sr/Ca ratios in clones of the benthic foraminifer Ammonia tepida. Marine Micropaleontology, 107, 32-43 ...