Cumulative total carbon loss through aerobic respiration and leakage of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) from sinking diatom aggregates incubated in rotating pressure and control tanks

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The effect of increasing hydrostatic pressure on the microbial degradation, the organic matter composition, and the microbiome of 'marine snow' particles was studied in laboratory incubation experiments. Model aggregates were produced from the diatom Skeletonema marinoi and the natural microbial community of surface seawater collected in the Kattegat. The aggregates were incubated individually in rotating pressure and control tanks to keep them suspended during 20-day incubations in the dark and at 3°C. In the pressure tanks, hydrostatic pressure was increased at increments of 5 MPa per day to finally reach 100 MPa. This pressure scheme simulates the descent of diatom aggregates from the surface ocean down into a 10-km deep hadal trench. In the control tanks, pressure was always left at atmospheric level.The cumulative total carbon loss from sinking diatom aggregates was calculated as the sum of carbon loss through aerobic respiration and carbon loss through DOC leakage expressed relative to the initial carbon contents of the respective diatom aggregate.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.960506
Related Identifier IsPartOf https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.960357
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Creator Stief, Peter (ORCID: 0000-0002-6355-150X)
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2023
Funding Reference Danish National Research Foundation https://doi.org/10.13039/501100001732 Crossref Funder ID DNRF145 Danish Center for Hadal Research, HADAL
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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Size 132 data points
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (10.427 LON, 55.368 LAT)
Temporal Coverage Begin 2021-07-27T13:48:26Z
Temporal Coverage End 2022-11-02T08:27:14Z