Articles | Volume 16, issue 17
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-16-3351-2019
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-16-3351-2019
Research article
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05 Sep 2019
Research article |  | 05 Sep 2019

Changes in gross oxygen production, net oxygen production, and air-water gas exchange during seasonal ice melt in Whycocomagh Bay, a Canadian estuary in the Bras d'Or Lake system

Cara C. Manning, Rachel H. R. Stanley, David P. Nicholson, Brice Loose, Ann Lovely, Peter Schlosser, and Bruce G. Hatcher

Data sets

Oxygen/argon, triple oxygen isotope, and CTD data from Bras d'Or Lake, Nova Scotia, Canada C. C. Manning and R. H. R. Stanley https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.789049

Model code and software

calcGOP: MATLAB functions for the calculation of gross oxygen production from triple oxygen isotope data C. C. Manning and E. M. Howard https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.596323

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We measured rates of biological activity and gas exchange in a Canadian estuary during ice melt. We quantified gas exchange using inert, deliberately released tracers and found that the gas transfer rate at > 90 % ice cover was 6 % of the rate for nearly ice-free conditions. We measured oxygen concentration and isotopic composition and used the data to detect changes in the rates of photosynthesis and respiration (autotrophy and heterotrophy) as the ice melted.
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