PANGAEA_779142 Global distributions of picoheterothrophs (Bacteria and Archaea) abundance and biomass - Gridded data product (NetCDF) - Contribution to the MAREDAT World Ocean Atlas of Plankton Functional Types Buitenhuis, Erik Theodoor; Li, William K W; Lomas, Michael W; Karl, David Michael; Landry, M R; Jacquet, Stéphan Global distributions of picoheterothrophs (Bacteria and Archaea) abundance and biomass - Gridded data product (NetCDF) - Contribution to the MAREDAT World Ocean Atlas of Plankton Functional Types 2012-04-11 PANGAEA Dataset https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.779142 Earth Science geoscientificInformation Complete MAREMIP MARine Ecosystem Model Intercomparison Project unrestricted CC-BY-3.0: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported English PANGAEA Data Publisher for Earth & Environmental Science https://www.pangaea.de/ Data Center Contact Michael Diepenbroek info@pangaea.de

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We compiled a database of bacterial abundance of 39 766 data points. After gridding with 1° spacing, the database covers 1.3% of the ocean surface. There is data covering all ocean basins and depth except the Southern Hemisphere below 350 m or from April until June. The average bacterial biomass is 3.9 ± 3.6 µg l-1 with a 20-fold decrease between the surface and the deep sea. We estimate a total ocean inventory of about 1.3 - 1029 bacteria. Using an average of published open ocean measurements for the conversion from abundance to carbon biomass of 9.1 fg cell-1, we calculate a bacterial carbon inventory of about 1.2 Pg C. The main source of uncertainty in this inventory is the conversion factor from abundance to biomass. ** For all details see the full metadata description at "https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.779142"! ** The attached zip file contains raw data files submitted by the authors and a NetCDF file. Progressively, raw data will be imported into PANGAEA as distinct data publications related to the original sources (journal or data publications).

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-4-101-2012 Picoheterotroph (Bacteria and Archaea) biomass distribution in the global ocean DIF 9.4 2012-04-11 2024-07-19