Bacterial counts and gel particle parameters at AWI HAUSGARTEN from twelve different water depths at four different sites in 2015 ...
Gel particles - a class of abundant transparent organic particles - have increasingly gathered attention in marine research. Field studies on the bacterial colonization of marine gels however are still scarce. So far, most studies on respective particles have focused on the upper ocean, while little...
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | English |
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PANGAEA
2017
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| Online Access: | https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.883761 https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.883761 |
| Summary: | Gel particles - a class of abundant transparent organic particles - have increasingly gathered attention in marine research. Field studies on the bacterial colonization of marine gels however are still scarce. So far, most studies on respective particles have focused on the upper ocean, while little is known on their occurrence in the deep sea. Here, we report on the vertical distribution of the two most common gel particle types, which are polysaccharide-containing transparent exopolymer particles (TEP) and proteinaceous Coomassie stainable particles (CSP), as well as numbers of bacteria attached to gel particles throughout the water column, from the surface ocean down to the bathypelagial (< 3,000 m). Our study was conducted in the Arctic Fram Strait during northern hemispheres' summer in 2015. Besides data on the bacterial colonization of the two gel particle types (TEP and CSP), we present bacterial densities on different gel particle size classes according to 12 different sampling depths at four ... : Supplement to: Busch, Kathrin; Endres, Sonja; Iversen, Morten Hvitfeldt; Michels, Jan; Nöthig, Eva-Maria; Engel, Anja (2017): Bacterial Colonization and Vertical Distribution of Marine Gel Particles (TEP and CSP) in the Arctic Fram Strait. Frontiers in Marine Science, 4 ... |
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