Organic carbon flux through the benthic community in the temperate abyssal Northeast Atlantic ...

• Main Author: Pfannkuche, Olaf
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 1992
• Subjects: Giant box corer; MultiCorer; M69; ANT-IV/1a; Meteor 1964; Polarstern; Atlantic Data Base for Exchange Processes at the Deep Sea Floor ADEPD; Rowe; Northeast Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.692143; https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.692143

In order to assess the carbon flux through the deep-sea benthic boundary layer, sediment community oxygen consumption (SCOC) was measured in different months and years at the BIOTRANS area in the abyssal northeastern Atlantic. SCOC varied seasonally with a maximum in July/August. Evidence is given f...