Diatom valve counts from Young Sound fjord, North-East Greenland

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Datasets collected from Young Sound fjord, Northeast Greenland, between 2013 and 2018 were analysed for amounts of diatoms. An automated PPS4/3 sediment trap with an aperture of 0.05 m² was installed near the fjord entrance (74.322°N; 20.269°W) at 60-m water depth, 15 m above the seafloor as part of the Greenland Ecosystem Monitoring (GEM) programme. The rotation for the trap was set to 7 to 91 -day intervals. Diatoms were counted and identified using a Zeiss Axio Imager.A2 upright research microscope with a Plan-Apochromat 100×/1.4 oil immersion objective, phase contrast optics and a total magnification of ×1000. A minimum of 300 valves, excluding Chaetoceros spp. resting spores, which were counted in addition, were identified. For samples with very low diatom abundances, ten transects were counted from each slide.

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DOI https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.982456
Metadata Access https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite4&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.982456
Provenance
Creator Mäkelä, Meri Marianne ORCID logo; Luostarinen, Tiia (ORCID: 0000-0002-2368-237X); Ribeiro, Sofia ORCID logo; Weckström, Kaarina ORCID logo; Sejr, Mikael K ORCID logo; Winding, Mie Hylstofte Sichlau; Heikkilä, Maija ORCID logo
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2025
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International; Data access is restricted (moratorium, sensitive data, license constraints); https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Resource Type Dataset
Format text/tab-separated-values
Size 3154 data points
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (-20.269 LON, 74.322 LAT); Young Sound, Greenland
Temporal Coverage Begin 2009-09-06T00:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2014-08-19T00:00:00Z