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    "title": "Census counts of benthic foraminifera, environmental parameters (temperature, salinity, and oxygen concentration), and radiocarbon measurements from cores obtained under and near a whale-fall off western Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada",
    "pubdate": "20210929",
    "sername": null,
    "series_name": null,
    "issue": "DOI: 10.5066\/P9XB8QUV",
    "publish": null,
    "publisher_name": null,
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    "descript": "This data release provides census counts of benthic foraminifera (in percent for the total fauna and as raw counts for just the living specimens) as well as environmental parameters (temperature, salinity, and oxygen concentration) at the sampling sites, and radiocarbon measurements from selected push core samples obtained under and near a whale-fall off western Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.",
    "lang": null,
    "journal": null,
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    "originator": [
        {
            "name": "McGann, Mary L.",
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        },
        {
            "name": "Paull, Charles K.",
            "role": "Author"
        }
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            "name": "animals",
            "scope": "Multi-celled organisms of the kingdom Animalia with eukaryotic cells (cells with distinct nuclei containing genetic material and bounded by thin membranes) that are heterotrophic (obtaining energy from organic substances produced by other organisms)."
        },
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            "code": "143",
            "name": "carbon-14 analysis",
            "scope": "Method to determine the age of organic geologic and archaeological specimens, aged approximately 3,000 to 50,000 years, by determining the decay of the radioactive isotope carbon-14."
        },
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            "scope": "Chemical techniques used to identify the composition of substances."
        },
        {
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            "code": "437",
            "name": "geochemistry",
            "scope": "Study of the distribution of chemical elements and natural compounds on the earth and in the atmosphere and the chemical processes that affect the earth."
        },
        {
            "thcode": 2,
            "code": "606",
            "name": "invertebrates",
            "scope": "Animals having no backbone or spinal column, such as insects, mollusks, crustaceans, worms, and similar organisms."
        },
        {
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            "code": "703",
            "name": "marine chemistry",
            "scope": "Branch of chemistry that deals with the properties, composition, structure, and interaction of substances in the seas and oceans."
        },
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            "scope": "Living individuals that grow, reproduce, and die."
        },
        {
            "thcode": 2,
            "code": "940",
            "name": "protists",
            "scope": "Unicellular eukaryotes (organisms possessing nucleated cells) with affinities to both plants and animals. Classed in the Protista or Potoctista kingdom, they include protozoans, foraminifera, radiolarians, fungi and some algae."
        },
        {
            "thcode": 2,
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            "name": "radiometric dating",
            "scope": "Methods for age determination of rocks and fossils by measuring the proportions of naturally occurring radioactive isotopes to their decay products."
        },
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            "scope": "Flora or fauna in natural environment, for example wildlife, vegetation, biological sciences, ecology, wilderness, sea life, wetlands, habitat, biological resources"
        },
        {
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            "code": "007",
            "name": "environment",
            "scope": "Environmental resources, protection and conservation, for example environmental pollution, waste storage and treatment, environmental impact assessment, monitoring environmental risk, nature reserves, landscape, water quality, air quality, environmental modeling"
        },
        {
            "thcode": 15,
            "code": "016",
            "name": "society",
            "scope": "Characteristics of society and culture, for example settlements, housing, anthropology, archaeology, education, traditional beliefs, manners and customs, demographic data, tourism, recreational areas and activities, parks, recreational trails, historical sites, cultural resources, social impact assessments, crime and justice, law enforcement, census information, immigration, ethnicity"
        },
        {
            "thcode": 23,
            "code": "27",
            "name": "Habitat",
            "scope": "Habitat includes data that describe repeatable combinations of biota and associated chemical, physical, or geological features in a distinct place, which, as in the CMECS Biotic Component, generally are named for the dominant taxa living there. Habitat also includes biotopes in accordance with CMECS. Examples include seagrass beds, deep-water corals, benthos, nekton, plankton, mussel beds. Distributions for Habitat data subject types include records of biotic associations, habitats, or biotopes obtained through direct observation, imagery, collection, or other methods; Distributions also include biotope maps, predicted maps of present-day habitats (for example, the Northwest Atlantic Marine Ecoregional Assessment, Mapping European Seabed Habitats), and other compilations or interpretations from observed data. Assessments include ecological valuation indices, presence, quantity (hectares), or percentage of identified high-value habitats; other purpose-driven, regionally-specific indicators of ecological value; classifications of areas as critical habitat; ecological services models; evaluations of habitat condition; and place-based indices of susceptibility and vulnerability to disturbance. Predictions are the results of models or projections of future distributions, values, or impacts; anticipated changes produced by natural and human processes; future projections of cumulative impacts of single or multiple stressors; and scenario-testing habitat loss\/gain models and predictions of related ecological or economic effects under different management strategies."
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            "name": "geologic dating",
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            "thcode": 61,
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            "name": "microscopy",
            "scope": "used for all observations requiring a magnification."
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            "thcode": 61,
            "code": "437",
            "name": "oceanographic observations",
            "scope": "used for field observations related to all aspects of oceanography: physical, chemical, and biological; may also be used for field studies of freshwater bodies that use oceanographic techniques."
        }
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