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<div><span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="elementToProof">Dear coccolithophore researcher,</span></div>
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<div class="elementToProof"><span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">My name is Joost de Vries, and I am a postdoc at the University of
Bristol. As part of an ongoing effort, I am compiling coccolithophore abundance data and would appreciate your help!</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">We are writing a data paper for a call from Scientific</span><span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> Data</span><span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> (</span><span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><a href="https://www.nature.com/collections/aihifjicfa" title="https://www.nature.com/collections/aihifjicfa" id="LPlnk916784">see
here</a></span><span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">). </span><span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The
data set aims to be a comprehensive historical record of coccolithophore</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">abundance and standing stocks.</span><span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span><span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Since
this is a data paper,</span><span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span><b><span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">the
data will be presented</span><span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> without significant analyses</span></b><span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">.</span><span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span><span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">However,
potential applications of </span><span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">this data set include species distribution modelling, ecosystem
model validation, </span><span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">and ecological studies on the causes and trends of coccolithophore diversity
and </span><span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">distribution.</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>water column microscopy counts</b></span><span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
of coccolithophore abundance, </span><span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">including</span><span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span><span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Scanning
Electron Microscopy (SEM), polarized light mi</span><span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">croscopy (pLM), and light microscopy (LM)</span><span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">.
Unfortunately, we will not </span><span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">include data sets which do not resolve species, such as flow
cytometry.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">I have already contacted many of you over the past few years - so if you have sent me data
already, that is much appreciated, and you will be included as an author on this paper. However, if you have any new data, aren't sure or have yet to send us data, we would love to hear from you!</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">We are also contacting some of you directly, so my apologies in advance for the double email. </span></div>
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ASAP. We will send you a formatting guide and will ask you to </span><b><span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">send us</span><span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> the
data </span><span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">before the 31</span><span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">st</span><span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span><span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">of
November.</span></b></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Best regards,</span></div>
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