Observational carbon and nitrogen zooplankton stable isotope and environmental data in the North Atlantic Ocean from 2009-2018 ...

• Main Authors: Espinasse, Boris, Wootton, Marianne, Newton, Jason
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2023
• Subjects: Calanus; d13C; d15N; isoscape; Sample ID; LATITUDE; LONGITUDE; DATE/TIME; DEPTH, water; Calanus spp., δ15N; Calanus spp., δ13C; Distance; Chlorophyll a; Sea surface temperature; Mixed layer depth; Wind speed; Plankton recorder, continous; Isotope ratio mass spectrometer, Thermo-Fisher-Scientific Bremen, DeltaPlus XP; ETOPO1 Global Relief Model according to NOAA National Geophysical Data Center 2009; GlobColour data [developed by ACRI-ST France]; Sea surface temperature data according to European Union-Copernicus Marine Service 2015; Mixed layer depth data according to European Union-Copernicus Marine Service 2018; Wind speed data according to European Union-Copernicus Marine Service 2020; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.950497; https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.950497

Calanus (copepod) sampled by the Continuous Plankton Recorder (CPR) survey (https://www.cprsurvey.org/) in the North Atlantic from 2009-2018 were analysed for stable carbon (d13C) and nitrogen (d15N) isotopes. The stable isotope analysis was done by the Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre (SUERC) as part of National Environmental Isotope Facility (NEIF). Samples were loaded into an Elementar (Hanau, Germany) Pyrocube elemental analyser, which converted carbon and nitrogen in the samples to carbon dioxide (CO2) and nitrogen (N2) gases. δ13C and δ15N of evolved gases were measured on a Thermo-Fisher-Scientific (Bremen, Germany) Delta XP Plus isotope ratio mass spectrometer. The system was calibrated using laboratory standards and then independently checked for accuracy using USGS 40 glutamic acid reference material (Qi et al., 2003; Coplen et al., 2006). Measurement precision was assessed by running replicates of laboratory standards and resulted in a standard deviation (SD) consistently < ...