KOSMOS 2020 Peru mesocosm study on ecosystem responses to different light and upwelling intensities: carbon and nitrogen uptake rates from water samples

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This data is part of the BMBF project CUSCO (Coastal Upwelling Systems in a Changing Ocean). Here we report carbon and nitrogen uptake rates by phytoplankton collected 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). Samples were spiked with 13C labelled sodium bicarbonate and 15N labelled potassium nitrate. Samples were incubated for 24 hours at light intensities that resemble the light conditions in the mesocosms. After incubation a subsample (150-1000 ml) was filtered onto a 0.7 µm pre-combusted glass-fiber filters (GFF, Whatmann). The filters were acidified, then dried in the oven at 60 °C and later measured using an elemental analyzer (Flash IRMS, ThermoFisher) connected to a mass spectrometer (Delta V Advantage Isotope Ratio MS, ThermoFisher) with the ConFlo IV (ThermoFisher). Carbon and nitrogen uptake rates were calculated based on Slawyk et al. (1977, DOI:10.4319/lo.1977.22.5.0925) and Shiozaki et al. (2009, DOI:10.3354/meps07837) respectively.

Mesocosm 10 describes the control sample from the Pacific

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DOI https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.961202
Metadata Access https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite4&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.961202
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Creator Thielecke, Antonia ORCID logo; Kittu, Leila ORCID logo; Fernández-Méndez, Mar ORCID logo; Georgieva, Silvia; Behncke, Jacqueline ORCID logo; Nachtigall, Kerstin; Hansen, Levka
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2023
Funding Reference Federal Ministry of Education and Research https://doi.org/10.13039/501100002347 Crossref Funder ID 03F0813A https://foerderportal.bund.de/foekat/jsp/SucheAction.do?actionMode=view&fkz=03F0813A Küstennahe Auftriebsgebiete CUSCO: Auswirkungen geänderter Auftriebsintensitäten auf Struktur, Funktion und Produktivität pelagischer Nahrungsnetze im peruanischen Humboldt-Auftriebsgebiet; Horizon 2020 https://doi.org/10.13039/501100007601 Crossref Funder ID 731065 https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/731065 Network of Leading European AQUAtic MesoCOSM Facilities Connecting Mountains to Oceans from the Arctic to the Mediterranean
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International; Data access is restricted (moratorium, sensitive data, license constraints); https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Resource Type Dataset
Format text/tab-separated-values
Size 2168 data points
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (-77.236W, -12.056S, -77.235E, -12.055N)
Temporal Coverage Begin 2020-02-28T00:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2020-04-02T00:00:00Z