The effect of sediment resuspension on pelagic nitrogen fixation in a Danish fjord - Core incubations

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This dataset contains results from incubation experiments investigating the impact of sediment resuspension on nitrogen (N₂) fixation in a microtidal fjord environment. Experiments were conducted seasonally during June, July, August, and September 2023 using water and sediment from Kærby Fed in Odense Fjord, Denmark. The aim was to evaluate whether varying intensities of resuspension affect pelagic N₂ fixation activity. Measured parameters include: (i) N₂ fixation rates, determined using the 15N₂ tracer method following Mohr et al. (2010), (ii) particulate organic carbon (POC) and particulate organic nitrogen (PON) content of the added sediment, analyzed by Elemental Analysis–Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometry, (iii) concentrations of dissolved inorganic nitrogen (DIN) and phosphorus (DIP) in the overlying water, measured using a spectrophotometer. Incubations involved sediment slurries subjected to different resuspension intensities, simulating a range of bed-shear stress conditions. All treatments were conducted in triplicates, and the dataset includes standard deviations for replicate measurements. The data support assessments of how sediment-driven processes influence microbial nitrogen cycling in coastal zones of the Danish Baltic Sea.

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DOI https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.983171
Related Identifier IsSupplementTo https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5198098
Related Identifier References https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.983163
Related Identifier References https://doi.org/10.1038/nature11338
Related Identifier References https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0012583
Related Identifier References https://doi.org/10.1128/aem.62.3.986-993.1996
Metadata Access https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite4&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.983171
Provenance
Creator Schlangen, Isabell ORCID logo; Löscher, Carolin Regina ORCID logo; Attard, Karl Michael ORCID logo; Sørensen, Lisbeth Fürst ORCID logo; Riemann, Lasse ORCID logo
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2025
Funding Reference Independent Research Fund Denmark https://doi.org/10.13039/501100004836 Crossref Funder ID DFF-0217-00089B Biogeochemical cycling and nitrogen fixation in Danish coastal regions
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 248 data points
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (10.493 LON, 55.452 LAT); Kærby Fed, Odense Fjord, Denmark
Temporal Coverage Begin 2023-06-19T00:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2023-09-05T00:00:00Z