Abundance of pico- and nanophytoplankton during the Meteor cruise M87/1

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In temperate, subpolar and polar marine systems, the classical perception is that diatoms initiate the spring bloom and thereby mark the beginning of the productive season. Contrary to this view, here we document an pre-bloom of pico- and nanophytoplankton prior to the diatom bloom; a period with excess nutrients and deep convection of the water column. During repeated visits to stations in the deep Icelandic and the Norwegian Basins and the shallow Shetland Shelf (26 March to 29 April 2012), we investigated the succession and dynamics of <10 µm phytoplankton. Water samples were collected from CTD rosette 10 L Niskin bottles and fixed in glutaraldehyde (final conc. 5%), flash frozen in liquid Nitrogen and stored at -80°C until analysis.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.839416
Metadata Access https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite4&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.839416
Provenance
Creator Paulsen, Maria Lund ORCID logo; Riisgaard, Karen; Nielsen, Torkel Gissel (ORCID: 0000-0003-1057-158X)
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2014
Funding Reference Seventh Framework Programme https://doi.org/10.13039/100011102 Crossref Funder ID 264933 https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/264933 Basin Scale Analysis, Synthesis and Integration
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
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Language English
Resource Type Dataset
Format text/tab-separated-values
Size 676 data points
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (-11.001W, 60.333S, 1.000E, 62.834N)
Temporal Coverage Begin 2012-03-26T03:43:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2012-04-29T03:41:00Z