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Stief, Peter; Middelboe, Mathias (2023): Abundance of free-living microorganisms in the water surrounding sinking diatom aggregates incubated in rotating pressure and control tanks [dataset]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.960509, In: Stief, Peter; Schauberger, Clemens; Becker, Kevin W; Elvert, Marcus; Balmonte, John Paul; Franco-Cisterna, Belén; Middelboe, Mathias; Glud, Ronnie N (2023): Effects of increasing hydrostatic pressure on sinking diatom aggregates [dataset bundled publication]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.960357

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Published: 2023-08-11DOI registered: 2023-09-09

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Abstract:
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 abundance of free-living diatoms, bacteria, and viruses in the water surrounding sinking diatom aggregates was determined by microscopic (diatoms) and flow-cytometric cell counts (bacteria and viruses) in samples retrieved every 4 days throughout the 20-day incubation experiment.
Keyword(s):
biological carbon pump; Deep sea; Diatom; Hadal trench; hydrostatic pressure; Laboratory experiment; lipids; marine carbon cycle; marine snow; microbial community; Pigments; Respiration
Funding:
Danish National Research Foundation (DG), grant/award no. DNRF145: Danish Center for Hadal Research, HADAL
Coverage:
Latitude: 55.368167 * Longitude: 10.426563
Date/Time Start: 2021-07-27T13:48:26 * Date/Time End: 2022-11-02T08:27:14
Event(s):
HADAL_aggregates * Latitude: 55.368167 * Longitude: 10.426563 * Date/Time Start: 2021-07-27T13:48:26 * Date/Time End: 2022-11-02T08:27:14 * Method/Device: Laboratory experiment
Parameter(s):
#NameShort NameUnitPrincipal InvestigatorMethod/DeviceComment
1ExperimentExpStief, Peter
2Type of studyStudy typeStief, Peter
3Date/time start, experimentDate/time start expStief, Peter
4Date/time end, experimentDate/time end expStief, Peter
5Experimental treatmentExp treatStief, Peter
6ReplicateReplStief, Peter
7Treatment: time afterT:time afterhStief, PeterTime after starting the experimental incubation
8Treatment: pressureT:pressureMPaStief, PeterDigital manometer, Keller AG, LEO5
9Diatoms, free-living, abundanceDiatom abund FL#/mlStief, PeterMicroscopic cell count, Fuchs-Rosenthal, Fuchs-Rosenthal counting chamber
10Bacteria, free-living, abundanceBact abund FL#/mlStief, PeterFlow-cytometric cell count, BD Biosciences, BD FACS Canto™ II
11Bacterial, free-living, abundance, standard deviationBact abund FL std dev±Stief, Peter
12Virus, free-living, abundanceVirus abund FL#/mlStief, PeterFlow-cytometric cell count, BD Biosciences, BD FACS Canto™ II
13Virus, free-living, abundance, standard deviationVirus abund FL std dev±Stief, Peter
14LaboratoryLabStief, Peter
Status:
Curation Level: Enhanced curation (CurationLevelC) * Processing Level: PANGAEA data processing level 3 (ProcLevel3)
Size:
168 data points

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