Biometric measurements of Fragilariopsis kerguelensis

• Main Authors: Cortese, Giuseppe, Gersonde, Rainer, Maschner, Katharina, Medley, Pamela
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2012
• Subjects: 177-1093; ANT-VI/3; ANT-XI/2; ANT-XVIII/2; ANT-XXI/3; Atlantic Indik Ridge; AWI_Paleo; BONGO; Bongo net; COMPCORE; Composite Core; CTD/Rosette; CTD118; CTD121; CTD146; CTD15; CTD150; CTD18; CTD47; CTD55; CTD64; CTD67; CTD71; CTD-RO; Gravity corer (Kiel type); International Polar Year (2007-2008); IPY; Joides Resolution; KL; Leg177; Paleoenvironmental Reconstructions from Marine Sediments @ AWI; Piston corer (BGR type); Polarstern; PS12; PS12/557; PS1654-2; PS2498-1; PS2499-5; PS28; PS28/304; PS28/314; PS58/011-3; PS58/012-4; PS58/014-4; PS58/038-7; PS58/042-5; PS58/045-9; PS58/046-5; PS58/048-5; PS58/088-7; Antarc*; Antarctic; International Polar Year; Sea ice; Southern Ocean
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.782735; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.782735

The valve area of Fragilariopsis kerguelensis, the most abundant diatom species in the Southern Ocean, strongly changes in size in response to varying conditions in the surface ocean. We examined the link, both in two iron fertilization experiments and in sediment samples covering several glacial Te...