The FORCIS database: A global census of planktonic Foraminifera from ocean waters

• Published in: Scientific Data
• Main Authors: Chaabane, Sonia, de Garidel-Thoron, Thibault, Giraud, Xavier, Schiebel, Ralf, Beaugrand, Gregory, Brummer, Geert-Jan, Casajus, Nicolas, Greco, Mattia, Grigoratou, Maria, Howa, Hélène, Jonkers, Lukas, Kucera, Michal, Kuroyanagi, Azumi, Meilland, Julie, Monteiro, Fanny, Mortyn, Graham, Almogi-Labin, Ahuva, Asahi, Hirofumi, Avnaim-Katav, Simona, Bassinot, Franck, Davis, Catherine, Field, David, Hernández-Almeida, Iván, Herut, Barak, Hosie, Graham, Howard, Will, Jentzen, Anna, Johns, David, Keigwin, Lloyd, Kitchener, John, Kohfeld, Karen, Lessa, Douglas, Manno, Clara, Marchant, Margarita, Ofstad, Siri, Ortiz, Joseph, Post, Alexandra, Rigual-Hernandez, Andres, Rillo, Marina, Robinson, Karen, Sagawa, Takuya, Sierro, Francisco, Takahashi, Kunio, Torfstein, Adi, Venancio, Igor, Yamasaki, Makoto, Ziveri, Patrizia
• Other Authors: Centre européen de recherche et d'enseignement des géosciences de l'environnement (CEREGE), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Collège de France (CdF (institution))-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE), Fondation pour la recherche sur la Biodiversité (FRB), Max Planck Institute for Chemistry (MPIC), Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Laboratoire d’Océanologie et de Géosciences (LOG) - UMR 8187 (LOG), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université du Littoral Côte d'Opale (ULCO)-Université de Lille-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD France-Nord ), Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ), Institute of Oceanology, Polish Academy of Sciences (IO-PAN), Polska Akademia Nauk = Polish Academy of Sciences = Académie polonaise des sciences (PAN), University of Bristol Bristol, Mercator Ocean International Toulouse, Université d'Angers (UA), Center for Marine Environmental Sciences Bremen (MARUM), Universität Bremen, Tohoku University Sendai, Institut de Ciencia i Tecnologia Ambientals (ICTA), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona = Autonomous University of Barcelona = Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona (UAB), Geological Survey of Israel (GSI), Geological Survey of Israel, Korea Polar Research Institute (KOPRI), Fukui Prefectural University Fukui, Japon, Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research (IOLR), Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement Gif-sur-Yvette (LSCE), Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Direction de Recherche Fondamentale (CEA) (DRF (CEA)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA), Paléocéanographie (PALEOCEAN), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Direction de Recherche Fondamentale (CEA) (DRF (CEA)), North Carolina State University Raleigh (NC State), University of North Carolina System (UNC), Hawaii Pacific University, Geological Institute ETH Zürich, Department of Earth Sciences Swiss Federal Institute of Technology - ETH Zürich (D-ERDW), Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich (ETH Zürich)-Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich (ETH Zürich), Australian Antarctic Division (AAD), Australian Government, Department of the Environment and Energy, Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR), Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research, Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel (GEOMAR), Marine Biological Association, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), Max-Planck-Institut für Biogeochemie (MPI-BGC), Fluminense Federal University Niterói, British Antarctic Survey (BAS), Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), Universidad de Concepción - University of Concepcion Chile, Centre for Arctic Gas Hydrate, Environment and Climate (CAGE), The Arctic University of Norway Tromsø, Norway (UiT), College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences Corvallis, Oregon State University (OSU)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2023
• Subjects: [SDU.OCEAN]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Ocean; Atmosphere; Planktonic foraminifera
• Online Access: https://insu.hal.science/insu-04198321; https://insu.hal.science/insu-04198321/document; https://insu.hal.science/insu-04198321/file/SoniaChaabane_ScientificData_2023.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02264-2

International audience Abstract Planktonic Foraminifera are unique paleo-environmental indicators through their excellent fossil record in ocean sediments. Their distribution and diversity are affected by different environmental factors including anthropogenically forced ocean and climate change. Until now, historical changes in their distribution have not been fully assessed at the global scale. Here we present the FORCIS (Foraminifera Response to Climatic Stress) database on foraminiferal species diversity and distribution in the global ocean from 1910 until 2018 including published and unpublished data. The FORCIS database includes data collected using plankton tows, continuous plankton recorder, sediment traps and plankton pump, and contains ~22,000, ~157,000, ~9,000, ~400 subsamples, respectively (one single plankton aliquot collected within a depth range, time interval, size fraction range, at a single location) from each category. Our database provides a perspective of the distribution patterns of planktonic Foraminifera in the global ocean on large spatial (regional to basin scale, and at the vertical scale), and temporal (seasonal to interdecadal) scales over the past century.