Flux variability of phyto- and zooplankton communities in the Mauritanian coastal upwelling between 2003 and 2008

Romero, Oscar E.; Baumann, Karl-Heinz; Zonneveld, Karin A. F.; Donner, Barbara; Hefter, Jens; Hamady, Bambaye; Pospelova, Vera; Fischer, Gerhard

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-17-187-2020

Articles | Volume 17, issue 1

https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-17-187-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-17-187-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 17, issue 1

Research article

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17 Jan 2020

Research article |

| 17 Jan 2020

Flux variability of phyto- and zooplankton communities in the Mauritanian coastal upwelling between 2003 and 2008

Oscar E. Romero, Karl-Heinz Baumann, Karin A. F. Zonneveld, Barbara Donner, Jens Hefter, Bambaye Hamady, Vera Pospelova, and Gerhard Fischer

Data sets

Fluxes of diatoms, coccolithophorids, calcareous and organic-walled dinoflagellate cysts, planktonic foraminifera and pteropods and the species-specific composition of the assemblages collected at the mooring site CBeu O. E. Romero, G. Fischer, K.-H. Baumann, K. A. F. Zonneveld, and B. Donner https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.904390

Short summary

Monitoring of the multiannual evolution of populations representing different trophic levels allows for obtaining insights into the impact of climate variability in marine coastal upwelling ecosystems. By using a multiyear, continuous (1,900 d) sediment trap record, we assess the dynamics and fluxes of calcareous, organic and siliceous microorganisms off Mauritania (NW Africa). The experiment allowed for the recognition of a general sequence of seasonal variations of the main populations.