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Forcing of dissolved organic carbon release by phytoplankton by anticyclonic mesoscale eddies in the subtropical NE Atlantic Ocean

Lasternas

¹ Piedeleu

² Sangrà

² Duarte

C. M.

¹ ³ Agustí

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0536-7293

¹ ⁴

Global Change Research Department, IMEDEA (CSIC-UIB), Miquel Marqués 21, 07190 Esporles, Spain

Instituto Universitario de Oceanografía y Cambio Global (IOCAG-ULPGC), Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain

The UWA Oceans Institute, The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, 6009 Crawley, Australia

The UWA Oceans Institute and School of Plant Biology, The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, 6009 Crawley, Australia

27 03 2013

10 3 2129 2143

2013

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The organic carbon fluxes mediated by planktonic communities in two cyclonic eddies (CEs) and two anticyclonic eddies (AEs) at the Canary Eddy Corridor were studied and compared with the dynamics in two far-field (FF) stations located outside the eddies. We observed favorable conditions and signs for upwelling at the center of CEs and for downwelling and mixing at the centers of AEs. CEs were characterized by a higher concentration of nutrients and the highest concentration of chlorophyll a (chl a), associated with the highest abundance of microphytoplankton and diatoms. AEs displayed concentrations of chl a values and nutrients similar to those at the FF stations, except for the highest ammonium concentration occurring at AE and a very low concentration of phosphorus at FF stations. AEs were transient systems characterized by an increasing abundance of picophytoplankton and heterotrophic bacteria. While primary production was similar between the systems, the production of dissolved organic carbon (PDOC) was significantly higher in the AEs. Phytoplankton cell mortality was lowest in the CEs, and we found higher cell mortality rates at AE than at FF stations, despite similar chl a concentration. Environmental changes in the AEs have been significantly prejudicial to phytoplankton as indicated by higher phytoplankton cell mortality (60% of diatoms cells were dead) and higher cell lysis rates. The adverse conditions for phytoplankton associated with the early-stage anticyclonic systems, mainly triggered by active downwelling, resulted in higher cell mortality, forcing photosynthesized carbon to fuel the dissolved pool.

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