Zooplankton faecal pellet size characteristics and role in carbon fluxes

These datasets were gathered from 197 scientific articles. They were analysed in the scientific paper Perhirin et al. (to be submitted). 
Data were splitted into two datasets : 
Size&Biomass.csv
- Variable : variable concerned (length, width, volume, density or Ccontent)
- IndividualOrAggregated :  Individual : data measured at one time and one place (for variables related to faecal pellet role in POC flux) or measured on one faecal pellet (for variables related to morphology and biomass) Aggregated : averaged data (over time and/or space for variables related to faecal pellet role in POC fluxes, or over multiple faecal pellets for variables related to their morphology and biomass)
- Value : only if IndividualOrAggregated = ‘Individual’
- Mean : only if IndividualOrAggregated = ‘Aggregated’
- SD : only if IndividualOrAggregated = ‘Aggregated’ and available
- NewUnit : unit after process, should be used
- FormerUnit : unit before process, should not be used
- MonthNumber : month (or range of months) of sampling (between 01 and 12)
- Year : year (or range of years) of sampling (between 1967 and 2022)
- LatDegDec : latitude of sampling (in decimal degree, °N)
- LonDegDec : longitude of sampling (in decimal degree, °E)
- DepthN : depth of sampling (in m)
- DepthMinN : minimal depth of sampling (for net sampling)
- DepthMaxN : maximal depth of sampling (for net sampling)
- DepthMean : mean depth of sampling (mean of minimum and maximum, for net sampling)
- Producers/Pellet characteristics : information about the zooplankton that produced the concerned faecal pellet(s) or about the faecal pellet(s)
- Type : type of the concerned faecal pellets, either derived from the producers or the pellet characteristics, defined in Perhirin et al. (to be submitted) 
- Ocean : sampled location
- Method : method used to sample or to produce the concerned faecal pellet(s)
- Reference : scientific paper from which data were extracted
- DOI : DOI of the match scientific paper from which data were extracted
- DataAcquisitionNotes : note if data were manually extracted from a figure or a table

2. Contribution&Flux.csv
In addition to the 22 variables similar as the first dataset, the 4 following variables were included
- Chl : surface chlorophyll-a concentration [Chl-a] derived from MODIS monthly climatology (L3 mapped product, 4 km, MODIS-Aqua Ocean Color Data, https://oceandata.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/l3/) 
- Productivity : discrete [Chl-a] categories defined as follow  low productive regions ([Chl-a] < 0.1 mg m-3),  moderate productive regions (0.1 mg m-3 < [Chl-a] < 1 mg m-3) and  high productive regions (1 mg m-3 < [Chl-a]).
- sst : sea surface temperature (SST) derived from MODIS monthly climatology (L3 mapped product, 4 km, MODIS-Aqua Sea Surface Temperature Data, https://oceandata.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/l3/) 
- TempCategory : discrete SST categories defined as follow  cold waters (SST < 5°C),  medium waters (SST between 5°C and 15°C) and  warm waters (SST > 15°C).