Standardized diatom data of sediment core PG2360 from Lake Bety (Yakutia, Russia)

• Main Authors: Biskaborn, Boris K, Pfalz, Gregor, Kublitskii, Yuriiy, Forster, Amy, Wieczorek, Mareike, Heim, Birgit, Pestryakova, Luidmila A, Herzschuh, Ulrike
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2024
• Subjects: Achnanthes thermalis; Achnanthidium minutissimum; Amphora libyca; AWI_Envi; AWI Arctic Land Expedition; Central Yakutia; Russia; Cocconeis placentula; Cyclotella cf. ocellata; Cymbella cymbiformis; DEPTH; sediment/rock; Diatoms; valves; Epithemia turgida; Fragilaria brevistriata; Fragilaria capucina; Fragilaria construens; Fragilaria construens forma binodis; Fragilaria construens var. construens; Fragilaria mesolepta; Fragilaria pinnata; Fragilaria tenera; Gomphonema acuminatum; Gomphonema minutum; Gomphonema olivaceum; Gomphonema truncatum; Light microscope; Zeiss [1000x magnification]; Measurement identification; Navicula cf. schoenfeldii; Navicula radiosa; Navicula sp.; Nitzschia cf. alpina; Nitzschia commutata; PG2360-3; Polar Terrestrial Environmental Systems @ AWI; Rhopalodia gibba; RPC; RU-Land_2016_Yakutia; Russian peat corer; Sediment core; Stauroneis cf. gracilior; Tabellaria fenestrata; Yakutia_2016_summer; Arctic; Yakutsk; Gibba; Alfred Wegener Institute; Thermokarst; Yakutia
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.965582; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.965582

This data set is part of a larger data harmonization effort to make lake sediment core data machine readable and comparable. Here we standardized diatom count data of sediment core PG2360, retrieved in 2016 from Lake Bety (Yakutia, Russia) at 1.5 m water depth. The thermokarst lake Bety is a small thermkarst lake in the coniferous forest area and has one outflow and three inflows. It lies at an elevation of ca. 160 m a.s.l. with a surface area of ca. 0.66 km2 and a maximum lake water depth of estimated 1.5 m. The 2.31 m sediment core was retrieved by a Russian peat corer during the RU-Land_2016_Yakutia Expedition of the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI, Germany, Potsdam) in cooperation with the North Eastern Federal State University (NEFU, Russia, Yakutsk). Diatoms have been counted using a ZEISS light microsocope at 1000x magnification at AWI Potsdam, and valve concentration was detected using microspheres.