Compilation of new data on stable nitrogen and carbon isotope ratios of marine biota from the subarctic and temperate Atlantic, and western Mediterranean Sea

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Isotopic data are valuable to investigate species interactions and food web structure. This file compiles δ13C and δ15N values of various marine taxa; most of data correspond to mesopelagic fish, but mesopelagic cephalopods, decapods and zooplankton, and cetaceans are also represented. This dataset follows a previous data file presented in Silva et al. (2022b) (https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.945917) and maintains the same layout. A total of 1045 records are included, of which 612 correspond to mesopelagic fish (55 species), 18 to non-mesopelagic fish (1 species), 168 to decapods (7 species), 68 to marine mammals (12 species), 5 to Cephalopoda (2 species) and 174 to zooplankton (14 taxa). Data are available for the subarctic and temperate Atlantic, the northeast Atlantic (off the Iberian Peninsula, Azores, and Bay of Biscay), and the Western Mediterranean. Samples come from years 2002 to 2021, and expand to all seasons. The table contains data on bulk stable isotope ratios of carbon (δ13C) and nitrogen (δ15N), and the total organic carbon to nitrogen ratio (C/N) measured in sample tissues or in the whole body of organisms are presented in this file. To eliminate the effect of lipids on δ13C values, lipids were extracted from samples before analysis (column "δ13C_LE (delipized)", or in other cases a mathematical correction was applied a posteriori (column "δ13C_Lipid Corrected"). For each data record, it is provided the sampling location, geographic coordinates, month and year of sample collection, method of sample collection, taxonomic ranks (phylum, class, order, family), number and size (or size range) of sampled organisms, as well as the reference and DOI of the original data source, for further details on the samples analysed and/or the analytical techniques used.

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DOI https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.971934
Related Identifier References https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.964013
Related Identifier References https://doi.org/10.3390/ani13050886
Related Identifier References https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2024.1283357
Related Identifier References https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2024.104347
Related Identifier References https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.11129
Related Identifier References https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.947631
Related Identifier References https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2022.1028717
Related Identifier References https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-022-01831-3
Related Identifier References https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.945917
Metadata Access https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite4&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.971934
Provenance
Creator Olivar, M Pilar ORCID logo; Silva, Mónica A (ORCID: 0000-0002-2683-309X); Spitz, Jérôme ORCID logo; Bernal, Ainhoa ORCID logo; Chouvelon, Tiphaine ORCID logo; Lebon, Myriam; Loutrage, Liz
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2024
Funding Reference Horizon 2020 https://doi.org/10.13039/501100007601 Crossref Funder ID 817806 https://doi.org/10.3030/817806 Sustainable management of mesopelagic resources
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International; Data access is restricted (moratorium, sensitive data, license constraints); https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess false
Representation
Resource Type Dataset
Format text/tab-separated-values
Size 30995 data points
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (-40.826W, 35.827S, 2.705E, 63.215N); Balearic Islands, western Mediterranean Sea; Alboran Sea; Alboran Sea, Mediterranean Sea; Gulf of Cádiz, Atlantic Ocean; Sea off Lisbon, Atlantic Ocean; Sea off Galicia, Atlantic Ocean; Balear Sea; Balearic Sea, Mediterranean Sea; Western Mediterranean; Nordic Seas; Azores; Bay of Biscay; English Channel
Temporal Coverage Begin 2002-10-17T17:42:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2021-12-13T00:00:00Z