A time series analysis of transparent exopolymer particle distributions and C : N stoichiometry in the subtropical North Pacific: a key process in net community production and preformed nitrate anomalies?
Kieran Curran,Tracy A. Villareal,and Robert T. Letscher
Kieran Curran
Ocean Process Analysis Laboratory, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824, USA
Tracy A. Villareal
Marine Science Institute, University of Texas at Austin, Port Aransas, TX 78373, USA
This work provides a 2-year record of marine organic gel concentrations from an open-ocean site in the subtropical North Pacific Ocean north of Hawaii. These microscopic gels are investigated to understand their importance as an understudied component of organic matter cycling by marine microbes. We find an important role of gel cycling during the summer months, helping explain previously contradictory estimates of nutrient supply and demand for the subtropical ocean.
This work provides a 2-year record of marine organic gel concentrations from an open-ocean site...