Dataset: Nitrogen isotopes of coral skeleton-bound organic matter from various sampling locations world-wide

Final no updates expectedVersion 2 (2018-09-13)Dataset Type:Other Field Results

Principal Investigator: Daniel M. Sigman (Princeton University)

Co-Principal Investigator: Anne L. Cohen (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

Co-Principal Investigator: Samantha J. de Putron (Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences)

Contact: Xingchen Wang (California Institute of Technology)

BCO-DMO Data Manager: Amber D. York (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)


Project: Collaborative Research: Identifying the Role of Basin-scale Climate Variability in the Decline of Atlantic Corals (Coral climate effects)


Abstract

This dataset contains the average CS-d15N (nitrogen isotopes of coral skeleton-bound organic matter) values for three sampling locations. Sampling occurred in the Oman margin in 1996, Kiritimati (Christmas Island) in 1998, and Bermuda in 2014.

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These data were published in Wang et al., 2016 and Wang et al., 2018.

The following table is a statistical summary of results:
Table1, Wang et al., 2016 (pdf)


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Results

Wang, X. T., A. L. Cohen, V. Luu, H. Ren, Z. Su, G. H. Haug, D. M. Sigman (2018), Natural forcing of the North Atlantic nitrogen cycle in the Anthropocene. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. doi:10.1073/pnas.1801049115.
Methods

Wang, X. T., Sigman, D. M., Cohen, A. L., Sinclair, D. J., Sherrell, R. M., Cobb, K. M., … Ren, H. (2016). Influence of open ocean nitrogen supply on the skeletal δ 15 N of modern shallow-water scleractinian corals. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 441, 125–132. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2016.02.032