45 research outputs found
New insights in Antarctic fast ice biogeochemistry: The role of biofilm
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Nitrate isotopic composition across a north-south transect in the Eastern Atlantic Ocean: significance of nitrogen input through N2 fixation
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High production going along with high respiration: impact of biofilm formation for sea-ice biogeochemistry
While representing less than 5% of the total ice cover around Antarctica, landfast sea ice is nevertheless an important habitat known to exhibit high biomass levels at the ocean/ice interface, with particulate organic carbon (POC) concentrations easily reaching 2000 μmol C L–1 during spring bloom. Surprisingly, together with the POC increase in bottom ice, fieldwork measurements performed in East Antarctica (Adélie Land 2011, McMurdo Sound 2012, Prydz Bay 2015) of nitrate and phosphate concentrations report a simultaneous increase with concentrations exceeding those of underlying seawater, suggesting an intense remineralization and nitrification processes within the ice. This goes against the classic view of nutrients being consumed during the growth season and regenerated after the height of the bloom. Regardless of the high nitrate levels available in the ice, increasing total nitrogen concentrations also suggest still more nitrogen from the underlying seawater was brought into the ice. Results of a NPZD-model indicates that a second nutrient pool, in addition to the brine pool, is essential to successfully model and reproduce field observations. The presence of a biofilm attached to the ice walls could act as a water-retaining substrate forming microenvironments with chemical gradients within the brine channels. The effect of biofilm on nitrogen dynamics (concentration and isotopic composition) in sea ice will be discussed as well as potential implications for other parameters (phosphate, carbon, oxygen). This calls for the integration of the biofilm concept into the current view of sea-ice biogeochemistry
Nitrate isotope composition in landfast sea ice: results from a time series
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Biogeochemistry of Antarctic Landfast Sea Ice and the Potential Role of Biofilm
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Biogeochemistry of Antarctic Landfast Sea Ice and the Potential Role of Biofilm
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Isotopic composition of nitrate from the temperate and subpolar North Atlantic
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Estimation of Antarctic sea ice primary production inferred from biomass accumulation
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A time series study during spring transition in the fast ice at Davis station, Antarctica: preliminary results
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