Description
The community composition of suspended phytoplankton cells was investigated at 10 stations on the West Greenland continental shelf as part of the EU project ECOTIP. Water was collected with a 12 L Niskin bottle at or close to the fluorescence maximum (between 20 and 50 m). Onboard the ship, the water was gently transferred into a carboy. From each carboy, a subsample of 100 mL was transferred into a glass bottle, preserved with 1 mL acidic Lugol’s solution for later microscopic analysis. From this field campaign, a cruise report is publicly available on Zenodo (https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.5913276). In addition, the following data sets are available: 1) the concentration of suspended chlorophyll a (Chl a >0.7 and >10 micrometre), phaeophtin (Phaeo >0.7 and >10 micrometre), particulate organic carbon (POC) and nitrogen (PON) in the water column (https://doi.org/10.11582/2024.00039), 2) the downward flux of Chl a (>0.7 and >10 micrometre), Phaeo (>0.7 and >10 micrometre), POC and PON at three stations (https://doi.org/10.11582/2024.00041), and 3) the community composition of sinking protist cells on (https://doi.org/10.15468/kw3rs9).
Data Records
The data in this sampling event resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 10 records.
1 extension data tables also exist. An extension record supplies extra information about a core record. The number of records in each extension data table is illustrated below.
This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.
Versions
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How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Svensen C, Dąbrowska A M, Wiedmann I (2024). Phytoplankton community composition in the water column of the West Greenland shelf, July 2021. Version 1.3. UiT The Arctic University of Norway. Samplingevent dataset. https://ipt.gbif.no/resource?r=dana_protist_susp&v=1.3
Rights
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The publisher and rights holder of this work is UiT The Arctic University of Norway. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 6e5fa973-a7cc-4867-8606-8bcaa395f7de. UiT The Arctic University of Norway publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF Norway.
Keywords
Samplingevent; Observation
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Geographic Coverage
Continental shelf off West Greenland/ Davis Strait
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [64.7, -58.6], North East [70.7, -52.8] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
N/A
| Kingdom | Chromista, NA, Protozoa |
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| Phylum | Euglenozoa, Myzozoa, Bacillariophyta, Cryptophyta, Ochrophyta, Choanozoa, Ciliophora, NA |
| Class | Dinophyceae, Chrysophyceae, Raphidophyceae, Cryptophyceae, Litostomatea, Cryptophyta incertae sedis, Choanoflagellatea, Oligotrichea, Bacillariophyceae, Euglenoidea, NA |
| Order | Oligotrichida, Chattonellales, Acanthoecida, Gonyaulacales, Dinophysales, Chromulinales, Bacillariales, Gymnodiniales, Coscinodiscales, Fragilariales, NA, Leptocylindrales, Chaetocerotanae incertae sedis, Cyclotrichiida, 0, Hemiaulales, Amphidiniales, Choreotrichida |
| Family | Lohmanniellidae, Leptocylindraceae, Gymnodiniaceae, Fragilariaceae, Katablepharidaceae, Ostreopsidaceae, Tontoniidae, Eutintinnidae, Leegaardiellidae, Dinophysaceae, Coscinodiscaceae, Ascampbelliellidae, Chattonellaceae, Gymnodiniales incertae sedis, Attheyaceae, Acanthoecidae, Cladopyxidaceae, Mesodiniidae, Hemiaulaceae, Strombidiidae, Amphidiniaceae, Dinobryaceae, Chaetocerotaceae, NA, Bacillariaceae |
Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 2021-07-19 / 2021-07-28 |
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Project Data
Data were collected as part of the project "Investigating ecosystem tipping points and cascades in the Arctic Seas" (ECOTIP). ECOTIP operates at the important link between the physical and biological systems, where a regional change in the hydrography of the Arctic Ocean might trigger a biological change at the base of the marine food web with cascading effects both on the regional and local socio-economic systems through fisheries, and on the global climate through carbon sequestration. ECOTIP is attempting to anticipate and predict these changes.
| Title | ECOTIP |
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| Identifier | https://ecotip-arctic.eu/ |
| Funding | This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 869383. |
| Study Area Description | East and West Greenland, Greenland Sea |
The personnel involved in the project:
Sampling Methods
At each station, the water was collected using a 12 L Niskin bottle attached to a sampling rosette. The water was gently transferred from the Niskin bottles to carboys (using a silicon hose) and a subsample of 100 mL was preserved with 1 mL acidic Lugol’s solution and the sample was stored cool (+4 C) and in darkness until further analysis ashore.
| Study Extent | At each of the 10 sampling stations on the West Greenland continental shelf, water was collected at or close to the sub-surface fluorescence maximum. |
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Method step description:
- The microscopic analysis was later conducted at the Institute of Oceanology of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IO PAN) in Sopot, Poland and the phytoplankton taxa were identified to the lowest possible taxonomic level.
Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | 6e5fa973-a7cc-4867-8606-8bcaa395f7de |
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| https://ipt.gbif.no/resource?r=dana_protist_susp |