Dataset: Bacteria, picoeukaryote, and Synecoccus cell counts and chlorophyll-a from nitrate and vitamin-B treatments, from up-welled coastal waters off Southern California, March 2015 (B-vitamin plankton succession project)

ValidatedRelease Date:2019-03-04Final no updates expectedVersion 1 (2018-01-26)Dataset Type:experimental

Principal Investigator: Sergio A. Sanudo-Wilhelmy (University of Southern California)

Co-Principal Investigator: Feixue Fu (University of Southern California)

Co-Principal Investigator: David A. Hutchins (University of Southern California)

Contact: Lynda Cutter (University of Southern California)

BCO-DMO Data Manager: Nancy Copley (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

Project: Can the availability of B-vitamins control phyto-and-bacterioplankton successions in a coastal upwelling region? (B-vitamin plankton succession)

Abstract

This dataset includes chlorophyll-a concentrations and cell counts for picoplankton collected in water samples from the San Pedro Ocean Time-series (SPOT), 2015. They were incubated with six treatments of nitrate and vitamin B.

Cite Dataset

This dataset includes chlorophyll-a concentrations and cell counts for picoplankton collected in water samples from the San Pedro Ocean Time-series (SPOT), 2015. They were incubated with six treatments of nitrate and vitamin B.

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General
Sanudo-Wilhelmy, S. A., Cutter, L. S., Durazo, R., Smail, E. A., Gomez-Consarnau, L., Webb, E. A., … Karl, D. M. (2012). Multiple B-vitamin depletion in large areas of the coastal ocean. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 109(35), 14041–14045. doi:10.1073/pnas.1208755109
Methods
Suffridge, C., Cutter, L., & Sañudo-Wilhelmy, S. A. (2017). A New Analytical Method for Direct Measurement of Particulate and Dissolved B-vitamins and Their Congeners in Seawater. Frontiers in Marine Science, 4. doi:10.3389/fmars.2017.00011
Methods
Welschmeyer, N. A. (1994). Fluorometric analysis of chlorophyll a in the presence of chlorophyll b and pheopigments. Limnology and Oceanography, 39(8), 1985–1992. doi:10.4319/lo.1994.39.8.1985

Sanudo-Wilhelmy, S. A., Hutchins, D. A., Fu, F. (2018) Bacteria, picoeukaryote, and Synecoccus cell counts and chlorophyll-a from nitrate and vitamin-B treatments, from up-welled coastal waters off Southern California, March 2015 (B-vitamin plankton succession project). Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (BCO-DMO). (Version 1) Version Date 2018-01-26 [if applicable, indicate subset used]. http://lod.bco-dmo.org/id/dataset/725929 [access date]

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