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| Moutin, Thierry; Wagener, Thibaut; Caffin, Mathieu; Fumenia, Alain; Gimenez, Audrey; Baklouti, Melika; Bouruet-aubertot, Pascale; Pujo-pay, Mireille; Leblanc, Karine; Lefevre, Dominique; Nunige, Sandra Helias; Leblond, Nathalie; Grosso, Olivier; De Verneil, Alain. |
| Surface waters (0–200 m) of the western tropical South Pacific (WTSP) were sampled along a longitudinal 4000 km transect (OUTPACE cruise, 18 Feb., 3 Apr. 2015) during the stratified period between the Melanesian Archipelago (MA) and the western part of the SP gyre (WGY). Two distinct areas were considered for the MA, the western MA (WMA) and the eastern MA (EMA). The main carbon (C), nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P) pools and fluxes allow for characterization of the expected trend from oligotrophy to ultra-oligotrophy, and to build first-order budgets at the daily and seasonal scales (using climatology). Sea surface chlorophyll a reflected well the expected oligotrophic gradient with higher values obtained at WMA, lower values at WGY and intermediate values at... |
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URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00420/53113/54067.pdf |
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| Bonnet, Sophie; Caffin, Mathieu; Berthelot, Hugo; Grosso, Olivier; Benavides, Mar; Helias-nunige, Sandra; Guieu, Cecile; Stenegren, Marcus; Foster, Rachel Ann. |
| Here we report N2 fixation rates from a ∼ 4000km transect in the western and central tropical South Pacific, a particularly undersampled region in the world ocean. Water samples were collected in the euphotic layer along a west to east transect from 160°E to 160°W that covered contrasting trophic regimes, from oligotrophy in the Melanesian archipelago (MA) waters to ultra-oligotrophy in the South Pacific Gyre (GY) waters. N2 fixation was detected at all 17 sampled stations with an average depth-integrated rate of 631±286µmol N m−2 d−1 (range 196–1153µmol N m−2 d−1) in MA waters and of 85±79µmol N m−2 d−1 (range 18–172µmol N m−2 d−1) in GY waters. Two cyanobacteria, the larger colonial filamentous Trichodesmium and the smaller UCYN-B, dominated the... |
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URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00419/53049/53987.pdf |
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| Caffin, Mathieu; Berthelot, Hugo; Cornet-barthaux, Veronique; Barani, Aude; Bonnet, Sophie. |
| Biological dinitrogen (N2) fixation provides the major source of new nitrogen (N) to the open ocean, contributing more than atmospheric and riverine inputs to the N supply. Yet the fate of the diazotroph-derived N (DDN) in the planktonic food web is poorly understood due to technical limitations. The main goals of this study were to (i) quantify how much of DDN is released to the dissolved pool during N2 fixation and how much is transferred to bacteria, phytoplankton and zooplankton, (ii) to compare the DDN release and transfer efficiencies under contrasting N2 fixation activity and diversity the oligotrophic waters of the Western Tropical South Pacific (WTSP) Ocean. We used nanometer scale secondary ion mass spectrometry (nanoSIMS) coupled with 15N2... |
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URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00419/53003/53951.pdf |
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| Tedetti, Marc; Marie, Lauriane; Roettgers, Ruediger; Rodier, Martine; Van Wambeke, France; Helias, Sandra; Caffin, Mathieu; Cornet-barthaux, Veronique; Dupouy, Cecile. |
| In the framework of the VAHINE project, we investigated the spectral characteristics and the variability of dissolved and particulate chromophoric materials throughout a 23-day mesocosm experiment conducted in the south-west Pacific at the mouth of the New Caledonian coral lagoon (22 degrees 29.073 S-166 degrees 26.905 E) from 13 January to 4 February 2013. Samples were collected in a mesocosm fertilized with phosphate at depths of 1, 6 and 12m and in the surrounding waters. Light absorption coefficients of chromophoric dissolved organic matter (CDOM) [a(g) (lambda)] and particulate matter [a(p) (lambda)] were determined using a point-source integrating-cavity absorption meter (PSICAM), while fluorescent DOM (FDOM) components were determined from... |
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URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00348/45893/45572.pdf |
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| Caffin, Mathieu; Moutin, Thierry; Foster, Rachel Ann; Bouruet-aubertot, Pascale; Doglioli, Andrea Michelangelo; Berthelot, Hugo; Guieu, Cecile; Grosso, Olivier; Helias-nunige, Sandra; Leblond, Nathalie; Gimenez, Audrey; Petrenko, Anne Alexandra; De Verneil, Alain; Bonnet, Sophie. |
| We performed nitrogen (N) budgets in the photic layer of three contrasting stations representing different trophic conditions in the western tropical South Pacific (WTSP) Ocean during austral summer conditions (February–March 2015). Using a Lagrangian strategy, we sampled the same water mass for the entire duration of each long-duration (5 days) station, allowing us to consider only vertical exchanges for the budgets. We quantified all major vertical N fluxes both entering (N2 fixation, nitrate turbulent diffusion, atmospheric deposition) and leaving the photic layer (particulate N export). The three stations were characterized by a strong nitracline and contrasted deep chlorophyll maximum depths, which were lower in the oligotrophic Melanesian archipelago... |
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URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00439/55074/56503.pdf |
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| Wagener, Thibaut; Metzl, Nicolas; Caffin, Mathieu; Fin, Jonathan; Helias Nunige, Sandra; Lefevre, Dominique; Lo Monaco, Claire; Rougier, Gilles; Moutin, Thierry. |
| The western tropical South Pacific was sampled along a longitudinal 4000 km transect (OUTPACE cruise, 18 Feb., 3 Apr. 2015) for measurement of carbonates parameters (total alkalinity and total inorganic carbon) between the Melanesian Archipelago (MA) and the western part of the South Pacific gyre (WGY). This manuscript reports this new dataset and derived properties: pH on the total scale (pHT) and the CaCO3 saturation state with respect to calcite (Ωcal) and aragonite (Ωara). We also estimate anthropogenic carbon (CANT) distribution in the water column using the TrOCA method (Tracer combining Oxygen, inorganic Carbon and total Alkalinity). Along the OUTPACE transect, CANT inventories of 37–43 mol m−2 were estimated with higher CANT inventories in MA... |
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URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00439/55075/56505.pdf |
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| Bouruet-aubertot, Pascale; Cuypers, Yannis; Doglioli, Andrea; Caffin, Mathieu; Yohia, Christophe; De Verneil, Alain; Petrenko, Anne; Lefèvre, Dominique; Le Goff, Hervé; Rougier, Gilles; Picheral, Marc; Moutin, Thierry. |
| Microstructure measurements were performed along the OUTPACE longitudinal transect in the tropical Pacific (Moutin and Bonnet, 2015). Small-scale dynamics and three-dimensional turbulence in the first 800m surface layer were characterized based on hydrographic and current measurements at fine scale and turbulence measurements at cm scale using a vertical microstructure profiler. The possible impact of turbulence on biogeochemical budgets in the surface layer was also addressed in this region of increasing oligotrophy to the East. The dissipation rate of turbulent kinetic energy, ε, showed an interesting contrast along the longitudinal transect with higher turbulence level in the West, i.e. the Melanesian Archipelago, compared to the East, within the South... |
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URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00448/56009/57518.pdf |
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