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Research article
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28 May 2025
Research article |
| 28 May 2025
| 28 May 2025
Community guidelines to increase the reusability of marine microfossil assemblage data
MARUM – Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen, Bremen, 28359, Germany
MARUM – Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen, Bremen, 28359, Germany
Montserrat Alonso-Garcia
Área de Paleontología, Departamento de Geología, Universidad de Salamanca, Salamanca, 37008, Spain
Simon D'haenens
Data Science Institute, UHasselt – Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, 3590, Belgium
Directorate Research, Library and Internationalisation, UHasselt – Hasselt University, Hasselt, 3500, Belgium
Robert Huber
MARUM – Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen, Bremen, 28359, Germany
Michal Kucera
MARUM – Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen, Bremen, 28359, Germany
Iván Hernández-Almeida
PAGES IPO, University of Bern, Bern, 3012, Switzerland
Chloe L. C. Jones
School of Ocean and Earth Science, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, United Kingdom
Brett Metcalfe
Department of Earth Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 1081 HV, the Netherlands
Laboratory of Systems and Synthetic Biology, Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen, 6700 EJ, the Netherlands
Rajeev Saraswat
Micropaleontology Laboratory, Geological Oceanography Division, CSIR – National Institute of Oceanography, Goa, 403004, India
Lóránd Silye
Department of Geology, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, 400084, Romania
Sanjay K. Verma
Palaeontology Division, Central Headquarters, Geological Survey of India, Kolkata, 700016, India
Muhamad Naim Abd Malek
Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR), Kampar 31900, Perak, Malaysia
Gerald Auer
NAWI Graz Geocenter, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Graz, Graz, 8010, Austria
Cátia F. Barbosa
Departamento de Geoquímica, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niterói, 24020-141, Brazil
Maria A. Barcena
Área de Paleontología, Departamento de Geología, Universidad de Salamanca, Salamanca, 37008, Spain
Karl-Heinz Baumann
MARUM – Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen, Bremen, 28359, Germany
Department of Geosciences, University of Bremen, Bremen, 28359, Germany
Flavia Boscolo-Galazzo
MARUM – Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen, Bremen, 28359, Germany
Joeven Austine S. Calvelo
Nannoworks Laboratory, University of the Philippines, Quezon City, 1101, Philippines
Lucilla Capotondi
Instituto di Scienze Marine, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR-ISMAR), Bologna, 40129, Italy
Martina Caratelli
CONICET – Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Buenos Aires, C1040 AAH, Argentina
Instituto de Investigación en Paleobiología y Geología, Universidad Nacional de Río Negro and CONICET, General Roca, R8332, Argentina
Jorge Cardich
CIDIS-Facultad de Ciencias e Ingeniería, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, 15102, Peru
Humberto Carvajal-Chitty
Departamento de Estudios Ambientales, Laboratorio de Bioestratigrafía, Universidad Simón Bolívar, Caracas, 1086, Venezuela
Markéta Chroustová
Czech Geological Survey, Prague, 11821 1, Czech Republic
Helen K. Coxall
Department of Geological Sciences, Bolin Centre for Climate Research, Stockholm University, Stockholm, 106 91, Sweden
Renata M. de Mello
PETROBRAS S.A. Headquarters, Rio de Janeiro, 20231-030, Brazil
Anne de Vernal
Geotop and Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal, H3C 3P8, Canada
Paula Diz
Centro de Investigación Mariña, XM1, Universidade de Vigo, Vigo, 36310, Spain
Kirsty M. Edgar
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B15 2TT, United Kingdom
Helena L. Filipsson
Department of Geology, Lund University, Lund, 223 62, Sweden
Ángela Fraguas
Department of Biology, Geology, Physics and Inorganic Chemistry and Research Group in Earth Dynamics and Landscape Evolution (DYNAMICAL), University King Juan Carlos, Móstoles, 28933, Spain
Heather L. Furlong
Department of Earth, Atmosphere and Environment, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, 60115, USA
Giacomo Galli
Department of Environmental sciences, Informatics and Statistics, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Venice, 30172, Italy
Department of Earth Sciences, University of Pisa, Pisa, 56126, Italy
Natalia L. García Chapori
IDEAN – Instituto de Estudios Andinos, University of Buenos Aires and CONICET, Buenos Aires, C1428, Argentina
Robyn Granger
Department of Marine Microbiology and Biogeochemistry, Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ), Den Burg, 1790 AB, the Netherlands
Jeroen Groeneveld
Institute of Oceanography, National Taiwan University, Taipei City, 10617, Taiwan (R.O.C.)
Adil Imam
Faculty of Sciences Rabat, Mohammed V University in Rabat, Rabat, 1014 RP, Morocco
Rebecca Jackson
MARUM – Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen, Bremen, 28359, Germany
David Lazarus
Museum für Naturkunde, Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science, Berlin, 10115, Germany
Julie Meilland
MARUM – Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen, Bremen, 28359, Germany
Marína Molčan Matejová
Department of Geology and Paleontology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University Bratislava, Bratislava, 842 15, Slovakia
Raphael Morard
MARUM – Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen, Bremen, 28359, Germany
Caterina Morigi
Department of Earth Sciences, University of Pisa, Pisa, 56126, Italy
Sven N. Nielsen
Instituto de Ciencias de la Tierra, Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia, 5110209, Chile
Diana Ochoa
Área de Paleontología, Departamento de Geología, Universidad de Salamanca, Salamanca, 37008, Spain
Maria Rose Petrizzo
Department of Earth Sciences, University of Milan, Milan, 20133, Italy
Andrés S. Rigual-Hernández
Área de Paleontología, Departamento de Geología, Universidad de Salamanca, Salamanca, 37008, Spain
Marina C. Rillo
Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment (ICBM), University of Oldenburg, Wilhelmshaven, 26382, Germany
Matthew L. Staitis
Faculty of Science, University of East Anglia, Norwich, NR4 7TJ, United Kingdom
Gamze Tanık
Department of Geological Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, 06800, Türkiye
Raúl Tapia
Institute of Oceanography, National Taiwan University, Taipei City, 10617, Taiwan (R.O.C.)
Nishant Vats
Micropaleontology Laboratory, Department of Applied Geology, Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines), Dhanbad, 826004, India
Bridget S. Wade
Department of Earth Sciences, University College London, London, WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom
Anna E. Weinmann
Department of Geology and Paleontology, Natural History Museum Vienna, Vienna, 1030, Austria
Data sets
Survey questions and anonymised answers Lukas Jonkers and Tonke Strack https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12722701
Model code and software
lukasjonkers/mipaguidelines: Code for guidelines (Version v1) Lukas Jonkers https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15411454
Short summary
Our study provides guidelines improving the reuse of marine microfossil assemblage data, which are valuable for understanding past ecosystems and environmental change. Based on a survey of 113 researchers, we identified key data attributes required for effective reuse. Analysis of a selection of datasets available online reveals a gap between the attributes scientists consider essential and the data currently available, highlighting the need for clearer data documentation and sharing practices.
Our study provides guidelines improving the reuse of marine microfossil assemblage data, which...
