Compilation of major and trace element concentrations in mesopelagic and other species from the North Atlantic and the Mediterranean Sea ...

• Main Authors: Chouvelon, Tiphaine, Spitz, Jérome, Fonseca, Catarina T, Pérez-Jorge, Sergi, Silva, Mónica A
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2022
• Subjects: Cephalopods; Crustacea; fish; inorganic elements; macro-minerals; mesopelagic food web; Micro-nutrients; trace metals; trophic markers; Event label; Record number; Ocean and sea region; Location; LATITUDE; LONGITUDE; Month; Year of observation; Gear; DEPTH, water; Organisms; Phylum; Class; Order; Family; Taxon/taxa; Taxon/taxa, unique identification URI; Taxon/taxa, unique identification Semantic URI; Number of individuals; Replicate; Size; Moisture; Moisture, standard deviation; Sample type; Silver; Silver, standard deviation; Aluminium; Aluminium, standard deviation; Arsenic; Arsenic, standard deviation; Boron; Boron, standard deviation; Barium; Barium, standard error; Calcium; Calcium, standard deviation; Cadmium; Cadmium, standard deviation; Cobalt; Cobalt, standard deviation; Chromium; Lahaye; Ramos; Solís; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.945907; https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.945907

Organisms accumulate major and trace elements (including metals) directly from the external environment and/or indirectly through diet. As such, their elemental composition can help to infer dietary preferences, solve trophic links and/or inform quantitative dietary analysis primarily based on carbon and nitrogen stable isotopes or on fatty acids (Lahaye et al. 2005, Ramos and González-Solís 2012, Soto et al. 2016, Majdi et al. 2018). This dataset reports the total concentrations of 30 major and trace elements analysed in whole bodies or in the muscle tissue of 82 unique species or genera characteristic of meso- to bathypelagic waters (referred as “mesopelagic”) or living on the continental shelf (referred as “other”). The species encompass jellyfish, crustaceans, cephalopods, fish, and were collected in North Atlantic and Mediterranean areas between 1968 and 2018. When available, the sampling method/gear as well as the sampling depth are specified. For the element mercury (Hg), the concentration of organic ...