<resource xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://datacite.org/schema/kernel-4" xsi:schemaLocation="http://datacite.org/schema/kernel-4 http://schema.datacite.org/meta/kernel-4.1/metadata.xsd"><identifier identifierType="DOI">10.18710/XMBYKD</identifier><creators><creator><creatorName nameType="Personal">Westgård, Adele</creatorName><givenName>Adele</givenName><familyName>Westgård</familyName><nameIdentifier SchemeURI="https://orcid.org/" nameIdentifierScheme="ORCID">0000-0002-8628-6008</nameIdentifier><affiliation>UiT The Arctic University of Norway</affiliation></creator><creator><creatorName nameType="Personal">Ezat, Mohamed</creatorName><givenName>Mohamed</givenName><familyName>Ezat</familyName><nameIdentifier SchemeURI="https://orcid.org/" nameIdentifierScheme="ORCID">0000-0002-9475-0974</nameIdentifier><affiliation>https://ror.org/00wge5k78</affiliation></creator><creator><creatorName nameType="Personal">Chalk, Thomas</creatorName><givenName>Thomas</givenName><familyName>Chalk</familyName><nameIdentifier SchemeURI="https://orcid.org/" nameIdentifierScheme="ORCID">0000-0002-2880-3847</nameIdentifier><affiliation>https://ror.org/01pa4h393</affiliation></creator><creator><creatorName nameType="Personal">Chierici, Melissa</creatorName><givenName>Melissa</givenName><familyName>Chierici</familyName><nameIdentifier SchemeURI="https://orcid.org/" nameIdentifierScheme="ORCID">0000-0003-0222-2101</nameIdentifier><affiliation>https://ror.org/05vg74d16</affiliation></creator><creator><creatorName nameType="Personal">Gavin L. Foster</creatorName><givenName>Gavin</givenName><familyName>L. Foster</familyName><affiliation>University of Southampton</affiliation></creator><creator><creatorName nameType="Personal">Meilland, Julie</creatorName><givenName>Julie</givenName><familyName>Meilland</familyName><nameIdentifier SchemeURI="https://orcid.org/" nameIdentifierScheme="ORCID">0000-0001-8966-3115</nameIdentifier><affiliation>https://ror.org/01pa4h393</affiliation></creator></creators><titles><title>Data for: "Large-scale culturing of Neogloboquadrina pachyderma, its growth in, and tolerance of, variable environmental conditions"</title></titles><publisher>DataverseNO</publisher><publicationYear>2026</publicationYear><subjects><subject>Earth and Environmental Sciences</subject><subject>Medicine, Health and Life Sciences</subject><subject>Foraminifera</subject><subject>Neogloboquadrina pachyderma</subject><subject>Polar</subject><subject>Ocean Acidification</subject></subjects><contributors><contributor contributorType="ContactPerson"><contributorName nameType="Personal">Westgård, Adele</contributorName><givenName>Adele</givenName><familyName>Westgård</familyName><affiliation>UiT The Arctic University of Norway</affiliation></contributor><contributor contributorType="ContactPerson"><contributorName nameType="Personal">Mohamed M. Ezat</contributorName><givenName>Mohamed</givenName><familyName>M. Ezat</familyName><affiliation>UiT The Arctic University of Norway</affiliation></contributor><contributor contributorType="Producer"><contributorName nameType="Personal">Westgård, Adele</contributorName><givenName>Adele</givenName><familyName>Westgård</familyName><affiliation>UiT The Arctic University of Norway</affiliation></contributor><contributor contributorType="ProjectManager"><contributorName nameType="Personal">Mohamed M. Ezat</contributorName><givenName>Mohamed</givenName><familyName>M. Ezat</familyName></contributor><contributor contributorType="Supervisor"><contributorName nameType="Personal">Julie Meilland</contributorName><givenName>Julie</givenName><familyName>Meilland</familyName></contributor><contributor contributorType="Supervisor"><contributorName nameType="Personal">Gavin L. Foster</contributorName><givenName>Gavin</givenName><familyName>L. Foster</familyName></contributor><contributor contributorType="DataCollector"><contributorName nameType="Personal">Melissa Chierici</contributorName><givenName>Melissa</givenName><familyName>Chierici</familyName></contributor><contributor contributorType="Researcher"><contributorName nameType="Personal">Thomas B. Chalk</contributorName><givenName>Thomas</givenName><familyName>B. Chalk</familyName></contributor><contributor contributorType="Distributor"><contributorName nameType="Organizational">UiT The Arctic University of Norway</contributorName></contributor></contributors><dates><date dateType="Issued">2026-02-24</date><date dateType="Created">2021-06-01</date><date dateType="Submitted">2026-02-24</date><date dateType="Updated">2026-03-06</date><date dateType="Collected">2021-06-01/2021-12-01</date></dates><resourceType resourceTypeGeneral="Dataset">Culturing observations</resourceType><relatedIdentifiers><relatedIdentifier relationType="IsSupplementTo" relatedIdentifierType="DOI">10.1093/plankt/fbad034</relatedIdentifier></relatedIdentifiers><sizes><size>7517</size><size>1154</size><size>8718</size><size>2326</size></sizes><formats><format>text/plain</format><format>text/comma-separated-values</format><format>text/comma-separated-values</format><format>text/comma-separated-values</format></formats><version>1.0</version><rightsList><rights rightsURI="info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess"/><rights rightsURI="http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0">CC0 1.0</rights></rightsList><descriptions><description descriptionType="Abstract">&lt;p>Data corresponding to culture observations of Neogloboquadrina pachyderma cultured in independently variable conditions.  
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Adele Westgård, Mohamed M Ezat, Thomas B Chalk, Melissa Chierici, Gavin L Foster, Julie Meilland, Large-scale culturing of &lt;i>Neogloboquadrina pachyderma&lt;/i>, its growth in, and tolerance of, variable environmental conditions, Journal of Plankton Research, Volume 45, Issue 5, September/October 2023, Pages 732–745, https://doi.org/10.1093/plankt/fbad034 &lt;/p>

&lt;p>The data is observational data from culturing experiments of polar planktic foraminifera &lt;i>Neogloboquadrina pachyderma&lt;/i> grown under independently variable conditions. Small (&lt;100um), healthy (active rhizopodial network, test full of brightly coloured cytoplasm) specimens were collected from the Greenland Sea (74.5N, 01.6E), placed into individual bottled and placed into incubators upon return to the ARCLIM culturing lab at UiT, Tromsø. Culturing conditions were temperatures 2-7C, salinity 29.8-36.7, pH 7.8-8.4. This dataset described the biological response, including growth, size, mortality of the specimens in said conditions as well as the growth patterns of asexually reproduced offspring.&lt;/p></description></descriptions><geoLocations><geoLocation><geoLocationPlace>The ARCLIM lab, UiT The Arctic University of Norway</geoLocationPlace></geoLocation><geoLocation><geoLocationBox><eastBoundLongitude>01.56</eastBoundLongitude><northBoundLatitude>74.5</northBoundLatitude><southBoundLatitude>74.5</southBoundLatitude><westBoundLongitude>01.56</westBoundLongitude></geoLocationBox></geoLocation></geoLocations><fundingReferences><fundingReference><funderName>Tromsø Forskningsstiftelse</funderName><awardNumber>The ARCLIM project, A31720</awardNumber></fundingReference></fundingReferences></resource>