Behncke, Jacqueline; Thielecke, Antonia; Kittu, Leila; Georgieva, Silvia; Nachtigall, Kerstin; Hansen, Levka; Fernández-Méndez, Mar (2023): KOSMOS 2020 Peru mesocosm study on ecosystem responses to different light and upwelling intensities: HPLC pigment concentrations and phytoplankton community composition based on CHEMTAX analysis of water samples [dataset]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.961210
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Published: 2023-11-02 • DOI registered: 2023-12-06
Abstract:
This data is part of the BMBF project CUSCO (Coastal Upwelling Systems in a Changing Ocean). Here we report pigment concentrations and the phytoplankton community composition based on CHEMTAX analysis during a 35-day experiment, where we enclosed natural plankton communities in in-situ mesocosms off Peru. The experiment investigated the interactive effects of light and upwelling on the Humboldt upwelling ecosystem by mimicking a gradient of upwelling intensities (0%, 15%, 30%, 45% and 60%) under summer-time high light and winter-time low light. Integrated seawater samples from a depth between 0 and 10m were collected using a 5L Integrating Water sampler (IWS; Hydro-Bios, Kiel). To obtain pigment concentrations 0.15 – 1L of water sampled from the water column were filtered onto glass-fiber filters (precombusted at 450°C for 6h, GFF, 0.7 µm nominal pore size, Whatman) using a low vacuum of 200 mbar. Afterwards the filters were stored in cryovials at -80°C until analysis of photosynthetic pigments using reverse-phase high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) following (Barlow et al., 1997; doi:10.3354/meps161303) as described by (Paul et al., 2015; doi:10.5194/bg-19-5911-2022). The phytoplankton community composition was calculated with CHEMTAX, which classifies phytoplankton taxa based upon taxon-specific pigment ratios (Mackey et al., 1996; doi:10.3354/meps144265). The values for the Peruvian upwelling system determined by (DiTullio et al., 2005; doi:10.4319/LO.2005.50.6.1887) as described by (Meyer et al., 2017; doi:10.3389/fmars.2017.00001) were used as pigment ratios. As phytoplankton microscopy revealed high abundances of the raphydophite Fibrocapsa japonica, the initial pigment matrix was complemented by ratios for F. japonica from (Laza-Martinez et al., 2007; doi:10.1093/plankt/fbm069) from the Atlantic.
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Thielecke, Antonia; Fernández-Méndez, Mar; Arístegui, Javier; Baumann, Moritz; Behncke, Jacqueline; Berger, Stella A; Dausmann, Veit; Georgieva, Silvia; Goldenberg, Silvan Urs; Gomez-Saez, Gonzalo V; Graco, Michelle; Heene, Toralf; Kittu, Leila; Krause, Jeffrey W; Ludwig, Andrea; Meyer, Jana; Mohrholz, Volker; Nejstgaard, Jens Christian; Ortiz Cortes, Joaquin; Schulz, Kai Georg; Smith, Alexandra; Spilling, Kristian; Sswat, Michael; Taucher, Jan; Vanharanta, Mari; Varmanen, Pia; Riebesell, Ulf (2025): Disentangling upwelling: how light and nutrient supply shape primary producers and stoichiometry in the Humboldt upwelling system. Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography, 223, 105522, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr2.2025.105522
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Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), grant/award no. 03F0813A: Küstennahe Auftriebsgebiete CUSCO: Auswirkungen geänderter Auftriebsintensitäten auf Struktur, Funktion und Produktivität pelagischer Nahrungsnetze im peruanischen Humboldt-Auftriebsgebiet
Horizon 2020 (H2020), grant/award no. 731065: Network of Leading European AQUAtic MesoCOSM Facilities Connecting Mountains to Oceans from the Arctic to the Mediterranean
Coverage:
Median Latitude: -12.055329 * Median Longitude: -77.235145 * South-bound Latitude: -12.056130 * West-bound Longitude: -77.235644 * North-bound Latitude: -12.054690 * East-bound Longitude: -77.234677
Date/Time Start: 2020-02-28T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 2020-04-02T00:00:00
Event(s):
KOSMOS_2020_Mesocosm-M1 * Latitude: -12.054828 * Longitude: -77.235211 * Date/Time Start: 2020-02-28T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 2020-04-02T00:00:00 * Campaign: KOSMOS_2020 (KOSMOS Peru) * Method/Device: Mesocosm experiment (MESO)
KOSMOS_2020_Mesocosm-M2 * Latitude: -12.054690 * Longitude: -77.234944 * Date/Time Start: 2020-02-28T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 2020-04-02T00:00:00 * Campaign: KOSMOS_2020 (KOSMOS Peru) * Method/Device: Mesocosm experiment (MESO)
KOSMOS_2020_Mesocosm-M3 * Latitude: -12.054725 * Longitude: -77.234677 * Date/Time Start: 2020-02-28T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 2020-04-02T00:00:00 * Campaign: KOSMOS_2020 (KOSMOS Peru) * Method/Device: Mesocosm experiment (MESO)
Comment:
Mesocosm 10 describes the control sample from the Pacific
HPLC data for day3 - mesocosm3 was measured as triplicate and day 7 - mesocosm 9 as duplicate. The values provided are the averages of the measured replicates.
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Curation Level: Enhanced curation (CurationLevelC)
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