Denitrification rates in boreo-arctic sponges - data of sponge species from Korsfjord (Norway) and the Schulz Bank (Arctic Ocean)

• Main Authors: Rooks, Christine, Fang, James Kar-Hei, Mørkved, Pål Tore, Zhao, Rui, Rapp, Hans Tore, Xavier, Joana R, Hoffmann, Friederike
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2019
• Subjects: Arctic Ocean; Deep-sea Sponge Grounds Ecosystems of the North Atlantic; Event label; File content; File type; Korsfjord; Latitude of event; Longitude of event; MULT; Multiple investigations; Norway; Schulz_bank; SponGES; Uniform resource locator/link to file; Arctic; Schulz Bank; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.899821; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.899821

Sponges are commonly known as general nutrient providers for the marine ecosystem, recycling organic matter into various forms of bio-available nutrients such as ammonium and nitrate. In this study we challenge this view. We show that nutrient removal through microbial denitrification is a common fe...