Isotopic composition of water and planktonic communities during Canadian Arctic expedition in summer 2023

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The Yukon Coast Land Expedition was conducted in July 2023 along an active retrogressive thaw slump; active-slump (AS), and a non-slump (NS) transect up to 2000 m from the shore, near Herschel Island-Qikiqtaruk, in the Northwest Canadian Arctic. The aim was to investigate the the concentrations and isotopic composition (δ13C, 14C, and 15N) of DIC and POC in the water column. Additionally, isotopic analysis was done for the most abundant organisms in the different trophic levels within the Arctic Ocean's nearshore zone to determine organic carbon (OC) sources and utilization in the coastal food web. The surface water was taken at the upper 50 cm while the bottom water was taken at 50 cm above the sediment, using a USB 50050 water sampler. δ13C and δ15N were measured using an Elementar Vario EL Cube, interfaced to an Isoprime VisION IRMS (Elementar UK Ltd, Cheadle, UK) at University of California-Davis in the USA. δ14C was determined using Mini Carbon Dating System (MICADAS) accelerator mass spectrometer at the Alfred-Wegener-Institute, Bremerhaven in Germany.

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DOI https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.994161
Related Identifier References https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2020.598933
Related Identifier References https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nimb.2021.03.016
Related Identifier References https://doi.org/10.2307/3071875
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Creator Juma, Gabriel A ORCID logo; Grotheer, Hendrik ORCID logo; Ruben, Manuel Jannis ORCID logo; Meunier, Cédric Léo ORCID logo; Mollenhauer, Gesine (ORCID: 0000-0001-5138-564X); Boersma, Maarten (ORCID: 0000-0003-1010-026X)
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2026
Funding Reference Horizon 2020 of the European Commission https://doi.org/10.13039/501100007601 Crossref Funder ID 773421 https://doi.org/10.3030/773421 NUNATARYUK, Permafrost thaw and the changing Arctic coast, science for socioeconomic adaptation
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Resource Type Dataset
Format text/tab-separated-values
Size 3736 data points
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (-139.010W, 69.553S, -138.875E, 69.569N); Canadian Arctic
Temporal Coverage Begin 2023-07-12T00:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2023-07-22T00:00:00Z