Supplementary Material: Surface Sediment Samples From Early Age of Seafloor Exploration Can Provide a Late 19th Century Baseline of the Marine Environment

• Main Author: Marina Costa Rillo, Michal Kucera, Thomas H. G. Ezard, C. Giles Miller
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: Natural History Museum 2019
• Subjects: Buckley; Planktonic foraminifera
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5519/0001936; http://data.nhm.ac.uk/dataset/a79a684f-fc60-4348-b619-34d61b3b31da

Ocean-floor sediment samples collected up to 150 years ago represent an important historical archive to benchmark global changes in the seafloor environment, such as species' range shifts and pollution trends. Such benchmarking requires that the historical sediment samples represent the state o...