Sea-ice meiofauna biomass, carbon demand, and secondary production in Arctic pack ice north of Svalbard during the Polarstern expedition PS92 in spring 2015

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We investigated the biomass, carbon demand, and secondary production of sea-ice meiofauna (here heterotrophs >10μm) at eight ice stations on Arctic pack ice north of Svalbard. Sampling was conducted during spring 2015 by sea-ice coring. The biomass (µgCm-²) for sea-ice meiofauna taxa was calculated by multiplying abundances (ind. m-²) of each taxon obtained from Ehrlich et al. (2020) (https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2020.00452) by the carbon content per individual of this taxon. The mass-specific ingestion rate of each taxon was multiplied by the biomass of that taxon at every station to determine the carbon demand per day. For the calculation of sea-ice meiofauna secondary production all production-biomass (P/B) ratios were obtained from Forest et al. (2014) (https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-11-2827-2014).

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DOI https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.931140
Related Identifier https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.915960
Related Identifier https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2020.00452
Related Identifier https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-11-2827-2014
Metadata Access https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite4&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.931140
Provenance
Creator Ehrlich, Julia ORCID logo
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2021
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
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Resource Type Dataset
Format text/tab-separated-values
Size 208 data points
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (7.600W, 81.170S, 19.430E, 82.210N); Arctic Ocean
Temporal Coverage Begin 2015-05-28T00:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2015-06-19T00:00:00Z