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Spungin, Dina; Belkin, Natalia; Foster, Rachel; Stenegren, Marcus; Caputo, Andrea; Pujo-pay, Mireille; Leblond, Nathalie; Dupouy, Cecile; Bonnet, Sophie; Berman-frank, Ilana. |
The fate of diazotroph (N2 fixers) derived carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) and their contribution to vertical export of C and N in the Western Tropical South Pacific Ocean was studied in OUTPACE (Oligotrophy to UlTra-oligotrophy PACific Experiment). Our specific objective during OUTPACE was to determine whether autocatalytic programmed cell death (PCD) is an important mechanism affecting diazotroph mortality and a factor regulating the vertical flux of organic matter and thus the fate of the blooms. We sampled at three long duration (LD) stations of 5 days each (LDA, LDB, and LDC) where drifting sediment traps were deployed at 150, 325 and 500 m depths. LDA and LDB were characterized by high chlorophyll a (Chl a) concentrations (0.2–0.6 µg L−1) and dominated... |
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Ano: 2018 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00419/53048/53985.pdf |
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Bonnet, Sophie; Berthelot, Hugo; Turk-kubo, Kendra; Fawcett, Sarah; Rahav, Eyal; L'Helguen, Stephane; Berman-frank, Ilana. |
N2 fixation rates were measured daily in large (∼ 50 m3) mesocosms deployed in the tropical southwest Pacific coastal ocean (New Caledonia) to investigate the temporal variability in N2 fixation rates in relation with environmental parameters and study the fate of diazotroph-derived nitrogen (DDN) in a low-nutrient, low-chlorophyll ecosystem. The mesocosms were fertilized with ∼ 0.8 µM dissolved inorganic phosphorus (DIP) to stimulate diazotrophy. Bulk N2 fixation rates were replicable between the three mesocosms, averaged 18.5 ± 1.1 nmol N L−1 d−1 over the 23 days, and increased by a factor of 2 during the second half of the experiment (days 15 to 23) to reach 27.3 ± 1.0 nmol N L−1 d−1. These later rates measured after the DIP fertilization are higher... |
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Ano: 2016 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00333/44459/44136.pdf |
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