SRE4 (Sediment Recruitment Experiment 4) Sediment Total Organic Carbon plus Nitrogen and Phosphorus, Casey Station, 2001-2006

(SRE4) was a large, long term (5 year) field experiment run at Casey Station (from 2001 to 2006) testing the effects of 4 different hydrocarbons on marine sediment ecosystems. Four different types of hydrocarbons were individually mixed with defaunated marine sediments and deployed in trays on the s...

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Other Authors: STARK, JONATHAN SEAN (hasPrincipalInvestigator), STARK, JONATHAN SEAN (processor), SNAPE, IAN (hasPrincipalInvestigator), RIDDLE, MARTIN J. (hasPrincipalInvestigator), Australian Antarctic Data Centre (publisher)
Format: Dataset
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Published: Australian Antarctic Data Centre
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SAB
Online Access:https://researchdata.edu.au/sre4-sediment-recruitment-2001-2006/701836
https://doi.org/10.26179/5ecb63ab55c56
https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/SRE4_SedimentTOCNitrogenPhosphorus
http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-617536
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Summary:(SRE4) was a large, long term (5 year) field experiment run at Casey Station (from 2001 to 2006) testing the effects of 4 different hydrocarbons on marine sediment ecosystems. Four different types of hydrocarbons were individually mixed with defaunated marine sediments and deployed in trays on the seabed at O'Brien Bay-1. Trays were collected after deployment periods of 5 weeks, 56 weeks, 62 weeks, 2 years and 5 years. In addition there was a bioturbation treatment using the burrowing urchin Abatus (at 56 weeks only). Samples were collected from 4 replicate trays of each treatment at each sampling time. Analyses were done of sediment hydrocarbon chemistry, microbial communities, meiofaunal communities, macrofaunal communities and diatom communities. The hydrocarbon treatments were: a synthetic Mobil lubricating oil; the same Mobil lubricating oil after 125? hours use in a vehicle engine; a Fuchs synthetic lubricating oil marketed as highly biodegradable; and Special Antarctic Blend diesel fuel (SAB). A control uncontaminated sediment treatment was used for comparison.