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The MAREDAT global database of high performance liquid chromatography marine pigment measurements
Peloquin, J. Smith, Walker O.
Peloquin, J.
Smith, Walker O.
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A global pigment database consisting of 35 634 pigment suites measured by high performance liquid chromatography was assembled in support of the MARine Ecosytem DATa (MAREDAT) initiative. These data originate from 136 field surveys within the global ocean, were solicited from investigators and databases, compiled, and then quality controlled. Nearly one quarter of the data originates from the Laboratoire d'Oceanographie de Villefranche (LOV), with an additional 17% and 19% stemming from the US JGOFS and LTER programs, respectively. The MAREDAT pigment database provides high quality measurements of the major taxonomic pigments including chlorophylls a and b, 19'-butanoyloxyfucoxanthin, 19'-hexanoyloxyfucoxanthin, alloxanthin, divinyl chlorophyll a, fucoxanthin, lutein, peridinin, prasinoxanthin, violaxanthin and zeaxanthin, which may be used in varying combinations to estimate phytoplankton community composition. Quality control measures consisted of flagging samples that had a total chlorophyll a concentration of zero, had fewer than four reported accessory pigments, or exceeded two standard deviations of the log-linear regression of total chlorophyll a with total accessory pigment concentrations. We anticipate the MAREDAT pigment database to be of use in the marine ecology, remote sensing and ecological modeling communities, where it will support model validation and advance our global perspective on marine biodiversity. The original dataset together with quality control flags as well as the gridded MAREDAT pigment data may be downloaded from PANGAEA: http://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.793246.
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2013-01-01
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Biological Sciences Peer-Reviewed Articles, PHYTOPLANKTON COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; SOUTH-PACIFIC OCEAN; SUB-ARCTIC PACIFIC; CHLOROPHYLL-A; FUNCTIONAL TYPES; NORTH-ATLANTIC; IN-SITU; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY MODELS; FLOW-CYTOMETRY; CASE-1 WATERS
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https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-5-109-2013