First evaluation of the role of salp fecal pellets on iron biogeochemistry
Planktonic grazers such as salps may have a dominant role in iron (Fe) cycling in surface waters of the Southern Ocean (SO). Salps have high ingestion rates and egest large, fast sinking fecal pellets (FPs) that potentially contribute to the vertical flux of carbon. In this study, we determined the...
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ftcsic:oai:digital.csic.es:10261/320709 2024-02-11T10:08:54+01:00 First evaluation of the role of salp fecal pellets on iron biogeochemistry Cabanes, Damien Norman, Louiza Santos-Echeandía, Juan Iversen, Morten H. Trimborn, Scarlett Laglera, Luis M. Hassler, Christel 2017 http://hdl.handle.net/10508/11215 http://hdl.handle.net/10261/320709 https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2016.00289 en eng Centro Oceanográfico de Murcia VoR Frontiers in Marine Sciences, 3. 2017: 289-289 http://hdl.handle.net/10508/11215 http://hdl.handle.net/10261/320709 doi:10.3389/fmars.2016.00289 open Medio Marino Centro Oceanográfico de Murcia botany biogeochemistry faecal pellets iron marinas research article 2017 ftcsic https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2016.00289 2024-01-16T11:46:09Z Planktonic grazers such as salps may have a dominant role in iron (Fe) cycling in surface waters of the Southern Ocean (SO). Salps have high ingestion rates and egest large, fast sinking fecal pellets (FPs) that potentially contribute to the vertical flux of carbon. In this study, we determined the impact of FPs from Salpa thompsoni, the most abundant salp in the SO, on Fe biogeochemistry. During the Polarstern expedition ANT-XXVII/3, salps were sampled from a large diatom bloom area in the Atlantic sector of the SO. Extensive work on carbon export and salp FPs export at the sampling location had shown that salps were a minor component of zooplankton and were responsible for only a 0.2% consumption of the daily primary production. Furthermore, at 100 m, export efficiency of salp FPs was ~2–3 fold higher than that of the bulk of sinking particulate organic carbon (POC). After collection, salps were maintained in 200 μm screened seawater and their FPs were collected for further experiments. To investigate whether the FPs release Fe and/or Fe-binding ligands into the filtered seawater (FSW) under different experimental conditions, they were either incubated in the dark or under full sunlight at in situ temperatures for 24 h, or placed into the dark after a freeze/thaw treatment. We observed that none of the treatments caused release of dissolved Fe (dFe) or strong Fe ligands from the salp FPs. However, humic-substance like (HS-like) compounds, weak Fe ligands, were released at a rate of 8.2 ± 4.7 μg HS-like FP−1 d−1. Although the Fe content per salp FP was high at 0.33 ± 0.02 nmol dFe FP−1, the small contribution of salps to the zooplankton pool resulted in an estimated dFe export flux of 11.3 nmol Fe m−2 d−1 at 300 m. Since salp FPs showed an export efficiency at 100 m well above that shown by the bulk of sinking POC, our results suggest that in those areas of the SO where salps play a major role in the grazing of primary production, they could be actively contributing to the depletion of the dFe pool in surface ... Article in Journal/Newspaper Southern Ocean Digital.CSIC (Spanish National Research Council) Southern Ocean Frontiers in Marine Science 3 |
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Planktonic grazers such as salps may have a dominant role in iron (Fe) cycling in surface waters of the Southern Ocean (SO). Salps have high ingestion rates and egest large, fast sinking fecal pellets (FPs) that potentially contribute to the vertical flux of carbon. In this study, we determined the impact of FPs from Salpa thompsoni, the most abundant salp in the SO, on Fe biogeochemistry. During the Polarstern expedition ANT-XXVII/3, salps were sampled from a large diatom bloom area in the Atlantic sector of the SO. Extensive work on carbon export and salp FPs export at the sampling location had shown that salps were a minor component of zooplankton and were responsible for only a 0.2% consumption of the daily primary production. Furthermore, at 100 m, export efficiency of salp FPs was ~2–3 fold higher than that of the bulk of sinking particulate organic carbon (POC). After collection, salps were maintained in 200 μm screened seawater and their FPs were collected for further experiments. To investigate whether the FPs release Fe and/or Fe-binding ligands into the filtered seawater (FSW) under different experimental conditions, they were either incubated in the dark or under full sunlight at in situ temperatures for 24 h, or placed into the dark after a freeze/thaw treatment. We observed that none of the treatments caused release of dissolved Fe (dFe) or strong Fe ligands from the salp FPs. However, humic-substance like (HS-like) compounds, weak Fe ligands, were released at a rate of 8.2 ± 4.7 μg HS-like FP−1 d−1. Although the Fe content per salp FP was high at 0.33 ± 0.02 nmol dFe FP−1, the small contribution of salps to the zooplankton pool resulted in an estimated dFe export flux of 11.3 nmol Fe m−2 d−1 at 300 m. Since salp FPs showed an export efficiency at 100 m well above that shown by the bulk of sinking POC, our results suggest that in those areas of the SO where salps play a major role in the grazing of primary production, they could be actively contributing to the depletion of the dFe pool in surface ... |
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First evaluation of the role of salp fecal pellets on iron biogeochemistry |
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First evaluation of the role of salp fecal pellets on iron biogeochemistry |
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First evaluation of the role of salp fecal pellets on iron biogeochemistry |
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Centro Oceanográfico de Murcia VoR Frontiers in Marine Sciences, 3. 2017: 289-289 http://hdl.handle.net/10508/11215 http://hdl.handle.net/10261/320709 doi:10.3389/fmars.2016.00289 |
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