Data from: Climatic forcing of Quaternary deep-sea benthic communities in the North Pacific Ocean ...

• Main Authors: Yasuhara, Moriaki, Hunt, Gene, Cronin, Thomas M., Hokanishi, Natsumi, Kawahata, Hodaka, Tsujimoto, Akira, Ishitake, Miho
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: Dryad 2011
• Subjects: deep-sea ecology; Quaternary; Foraminifera; Ostracoda; Pacific; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.c1q30; https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.c1q30

There is a growing evidence that changes in deep-sea benthic ecosystems are modulated by climate changes, but most evidence to date comes from the North Atlantic Ocean. Here we analyze new ostracod and published foraminiferal records for the last 250,000 years on Shatsky Rise in the North Pacific Ocean. Using linear models, we evaluate statistically the ability of environmental drivers (temperature, productivity, and seasonality of productivity) to predict changes in faunal diversity, abundance and composition. These microfossil data show glacial-interglacial shifts in overall abundances and species diversities that are low during glacial intervals and high during interglacials. These patterns replicate those previously documented in the North Atlantic Ocean, suggesting that the climatic forcing of the deep-sea ecosystem is widespread, and possibly global in nature. However, these results also reveal differences with prior studies that probably reflect the isolated nature of Shatsky Rise as a remote oceanic ... : NGC104_RawCensus TextCensus data of NGC104 ostracods (Raw census data) in plain text format.NGC104_RawCensus.txtNGC104_RawCensus ExcelCensus data of NGC104 ostracods (Raw census data) in Microsoft Excel format.NGC104_RawCensus.xlsNGC104_3movCensus TextThree-sample moving sums of the census dataset of NGC104 ostracods in plain text format.NGC104_3movCensus.txtNGC104_3movCensus ExcelThree-sample moving sums of the census dataset of NGC104 ostracods in Microsoft Excel format.NGC104_3movCensus.xlsYasuhara-STables PDFOnline Supplement Tables in PDF format.Yasuhara-STables.pdfYasuhara-STables WordOnline Supplement Tables in Microsoft Word format.Yasuhara-STables.docTable-S1Table-S2Table-S3Table-S4Table-S5Table-S6Table-S7Table-S8Table-S9 ...