Sediment Oxygen Flux Data in the Bering Sea Shelf

The high productivity in the Bering sea coupled with shallow water depths over the shelf result in a large fraction of the productivity reaching the sediments. This fuels the productive benthic ecosystem there. It also results in high benthic oxygen consumption and denitrification rates. The goal of...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Allan H. Devol
Format: Dataset
Language:unknown
Published: Arctic Data Center
Subjects:
Ship
Oceanography
Arctic
oceans
Bering Sea
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.5065/D6KH0KBW
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Summary:The high productivity in the Bering sea coupled with shallow water depths over the shelf result in a large fraction of the productivity reaching the sediments. This fuels the productive benthic ecosystem there. It also results in high benthic oxygen consumption and denitrification rates. The goal of our project is to look at the benthic geochemistry in the Bering Sea Ecosystem Study (BEST) region, especially the benthic cycling of nitrogen.

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