Downward fecal pellet flux measured from short-term sediment traps during March 2021 in the northern Barents Sea as part of the Nansen Legacy project, cruise 2021703 Q1 ...

• Main Authors: Bodur, Yasemin V., Amargant-Arumí, Martí, Reigstad, Marit
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Archive2014 2023
• Subjects: Natural sciences; FOS Natural sciences; Biology; Marine Biology; Barents Sea; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.11582/2023.00086; https://archive.sigma2.no/pages/public/datasetDetail.jsf?id=10.11582/2023.00086

Samples for fecal pellet flux were collected with short-term drifting sediment traps between 75° and 85°N in the northern Barents Sea with R/V Kronprins Haakon in March 2021 as part of the Nansen Legacy project (cruise 2021703, Q1). High-density bottom water was collected at the station and filtered (Whatman GF/F 0.7µm), and then filled into the trap cylinders (KC Denmark, aspect ratio >6) prior to their deployment. Afterwards, the sediment traps were deployed with 2 cylinders at each depth (30m and 120 or 200m) for a duration between 12 to 39 hours. Depending on the sea ice conditions, the sediment traps were deployed in open water, anchored to a sea ice floe or within an ice lead. Upon retrieval, the content of the cylinders from each depth was pooled and stored at 4°C in dark until further analyses. For the microscopic examination of fecal pellets, a subsample of 250ml was transferred to a plastic bottle and fixed with hexamine-buffered 37% formaldehyde (final pH = 7) to a final concentration of 4%. A ... : 3 UTF-8 Unicode text, with very long lines, with CRLF, LF line terminators, totaling ...... 192.89 KB 3 ASCII text, with no line terminators, totaling ...... 96 B ...