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Título: Transparent exopolymer particle (TEP) distribution and in situ prokaryotic generation across the deep Mediterranean Sea and nearby North East Atlantic Ocean
Autores/as: Ortega-Retuerta, Eva
Mazuecos, Ignacio P.
Reche, Isabel
Gasol, Josep M.
Alvarez-Salgado, Xose A.
Alvarez, Marta
Montero del Pino, María Fernanda 
Aristegui, Javier 
Clasificación UNESCO: 251001 Oceanografía biológica
Palabras clave: Dissolved Organic-Matter
Phosphorus Limitation
Seasonal Dynamics
Flow-Cytometry
Diatom Bloom, et al.
Fecha de publicación: 2019
Proyectos: Zonas de Mezcla y Frentes en El Océano Oscuro Como ¿Hot-Spots? de Biodiversidad y Flujos Biogeoquímicos A Través Del Mar Mediterráneo y Atlántico Nordeste - I. 
Flujos de Carbono en Un Sistema de Afloramiento Costero (Cabo Blanco, Nw de Africa). Papel Del Carbono Disuelto y en Suspension en El Contexto de la Bomba Biologica. 
Publicación seriada: Progress in Oceanography 
Resumen: Transparent exopolymer particles (TEP) play a key role in ocean carbon export and structuring microbial habitats, but information on their distribution across different ocean basins and depths is scarce, particularly in the dark ocean. We measured TEP vertical distribution from the surface to bathypelagic waters in an east-to-west transect across the Mediterranean Sea (MedSea) and the adjacent North East Atlantic Ocean (NEA), and explored their physical and biological drivers. TEP ranged from 0.6 to 81.7 mu g XG eq L-1, with the highest values in epipelagic waters above the deep chlorophyll maximum, and in areas near the Gibraltar and Sicily Straits. TEP were significantly related to particulate organic carbon (POC) in all basins and depth layers (epipelagic vs. deep), but the contribution of TEP to POC was higher in the NEA (85%, 79% and 67% in epi-, meso- and bathypelagic waters, respectively) than in the MedSea (from 53% to 62% in epipelagic waters, and from 45% to 48% in mesoand bathypelagic waters), coinciding with higher carbon to nitrogen particulate organic matter ratios in the NEA. The TEP connectivity between epipelagic waters and mesopelagic waters was less straightforward than between mesopelagic waters and bathypelagic waters, with a 23% and 55% of the variance in the relationship between layers explained respectively. Prokaryotes were found to be a likely net source of TEP as inferred by the significant direct relationship observed between prokaryotic heterotrophic abundance and TEP. This assumption was confirmed using experimental incubations, where prokaryotes produced TEP in concentrations ranging from 0.7 (Western Mediterranean, bathypelagic) to 232 (Western Mediterranean, mesopelagic) mu g XG eq. L-1 day(-1).
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10553/58372
ISSN: 0079-6611
DOI: 10.1016/j.pocean.2019.03.002
Fuente: Progress In Oceanography [ISSN 0079-6611], v. 173, p. 180-191
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