LiCSiC is composed of 13 micropaleontological slides collecting benthic foraminifera specimens from Linosa Island seafloor (depth ranging between 50 and 400 m). A total of 140 taxa were identified from the 13 sediment samples. This dataset is part of Activity WP6.6 “National network of the aquatic science collections” of the project funded by EU - Next Generation EU Mission 4 “Education and Research” - Component 2: “From research to business” - Investment 3.1: “Fund for the realisation of an integrated system of research and innovation infrastructures” - Project IR0000032 – ITINERIS - Italian Integrated Environmental Research Infrastructures System - CUP B53C22002150006.
Linosa Sicily Channel, Italy Min Latitude: 35.833039 Max Latitude: 35.867014 Min Longitude: 12.834097 Max Longitude: 12.896356 Global Coverage: n/a
Citation
Giordano L, Ferraro L (2024). LiCSiC - Foraminifera Linosa Sicily Channel Collection. Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto di Scienze Marine. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/gv8k7a accessed via GBIF.org on 2025-05-03.
Laura Giordano (Originator) Technologist Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto di Scienze Marine laura.giordano@cnr.it
Luciana Ferraro (Originator) Researcher Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto di Scienze Marine luciana.ferraro@cnr.it
Laura Giordano (Administrative point of contact) Technologist Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto di Scienze Marine laura.giordano@cnr.it
Luciana Ferraro (Administrative point of contact) Researcher Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto di Scienze Marine luciana.ferraro@cnr.it
Edoardo Di Russo (Administrative point of contact) Technician Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto di Scienze Marine edoardo.dirusso@cnr.it
Simona Armeli Minicante (Administrative point of contact) Technologist Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto di Scienze Marine simona.armeliminicante@cnr.it
Project
Implementation of research activity and monitoring around Pelagie Islands Marine Protected Area
Funding: Project ‘Implementation of research activity and monitoring around Pelagie Islands Marine Protected Area’, within the project ‘CAm BiA – Contabilità Ambientale e Bilancio Ambientale’ funded by the Ministry of the Environment and Protection of Land and Sea (MATTM – Ministero dell’Ambiente e della Tutela del Territorio e del Mare), Directive n° 5135 of March 2015; RITMARE Flagship Project, funded by Ministry of Education, University and Research (MIUR – Ministero dell’Istruzione dell’Università e della Ricerca) [NRP 2011-2013].
Project people:
Laura Giordano (Administrative point of contact)
Luciana Ferraro (Administrative point of contact)
Sampling
Study Extent: Sedimentological data were collected by the National Research Council, Institute of Marine Sciences (CNR-ISMAR) of Naples (Italy) during two oceanographic surveys, ‘Linosa 2016’ (17-19 August 2016) and ‘BioGeoLin 2017’ (8-20 September 2017), onboard the R/V Minerva UNO. Sampling: About 50 cm3 of sediments samples of the box corer and Van Veen grab were collected with a tube of 8 cm in diameter from the interval 0-1 cm of the seafloor for the foraminiferal analyses, and treated following the FOBIMO protocol (Schönfeld et al., 2012), to facilitate distinguishing living from dead foraminiferal tests (see Ferraro et al., 2020 for details). Method Steps: Benthic foraminiferal specimens were picked, from a sediment fraction >125µ of each sample, and collected in microslides. The image dataset of benthic foraminifera was acquired from living and dead foraminiferal specimens. Benthic foraminiferal tests were examined and photographed using an optical stereomicroscope (model Zeiss SteREO Discovery V.8). Optical images were acquired with a 16× Ocular, S1.0× Objective Plan, and processed via the microscope imaging software Zen Lite (v. 2012 SP1 black edition, 64 bit).
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IR0000032 – ITINERIS, Italian Integrated Environmental Research Infrastructures System
(D.D. n. 130/2022 - CUP B53C22002150006) Funded by EU - Next Generation EU PNRR- Mission 4 “Education and Research” -
Component 2: “From research to business” - Investment 3.1:
“Fund for the realisation of an integrated system of research and innovation infrastructures”
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