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Functioning of benthic hotspots versus coldspots ecosystems in the Canadian Arctic
Samples were collected from nine sites distributed across the study region in 2008 and 2009. To avoid confounding influence of seasons, the same sites were sampled in the same season each year. Sampling was conducted onboard the CCGS Amundsen between July and October during the Circumpolar Flaw Lead Study, ArcticNet expeditions in collaboration with the Canadian Healthy Ocean Network and the Malina project. Locations were chosen to study both hotspots and coldspots in the Canadian Arctic.
At each sampling station, an USNEL box corer was deployed for seafloor sediment collection. From each box core, three to five sub-cores of 10 cm diameter and approximately 20 cm sediment depth were taken for assessing benthic remineralisation function in shipboard microcosm incubations. After incubation, the same sediment cores were passed through a 0.5 mm mesh sieve under slow running seawater. The sieve residues were preserved in a 4%
seawater-formaldehyde solution for later analyses of species diversity and abundance under a dissection microscope.
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- Date (Publication)
- 2015-03-23
- Other citation details
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Link H, Piepenburg D, Archambault P (2013) Are Hotspots Always Hotspots? The Relationship between Diversity, Resource and Ecosystem Functions in the Arctic. PLoS ONE 8(9): e74077. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0074077
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The objectives were to distinguish between the temporal and spatial variation in a multivariate benthic ecosystem function in the Canadian Arctic, and to investigate the relation of the often used function proxies diversity and food supply with spatio-temporal variation. The resampling of study sites in the same season of different years for multiple remineralisation fluxes, diversity and sediment pigments was the key approach to allow for separating temporal from spatial variation in the diversity-ecosystem function analysis.
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- Completed
Canadian Cryospheric Information Network
-Polar Data Catalogue
200 University Avenue West, University of Waterloo
,Waterloo
,Ontario
,N2L 3G1
,Canada
polardata.ca
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Polar Data Catalogue Thesaurus (Canada)
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Bacteria
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Benthic surveys
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Benthos
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Biodiversity
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Canadian Arctic Archipelago
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Carbon fluxes
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Nutrient cycling
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Nutrients
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Pigments
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Sediments
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- Place
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Canada - Beaufort Sea, Northwest Passage, and Baffin Bay
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- Other restrictions
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- Other restrictions
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Terms of Use of the Polar Data Catalogue: https://www.polardata.ca/pdcinput/public/termsofuse
- Metadata language
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eng; CAN
- Topic category
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- Environment
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- Begin date
- 2008-03-01
- End date
- 2009-11-05
- Supplemental Information
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Summary: Not Applicable Research Program(s): ArcticNet,IPY,CHONe (Canadian Healthy Oceans Network). For further information: philippe_archambault@uqar.ca archambault@uqar.ca
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Canadian Cryospheric Information Network
-Polar Data Catalogue
200 University Avenue West, University of Waterloo
,Waterloo
,Ontario
,N2L 3G1
,Canada
- Included with dataset
- No
- File identifier
- 17336e84-6c1b-4567-bffc-6501f5b60404 XML
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eng; CAN
- Character set
- UTF8
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2022-04-08T13:00:33
- Metadata standard name
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North American Profile of ISO 19115:2003
- Metadata standard version
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2009-01-01
Canadian Cryospheric Information Network
-Polar Data Catalogue
200 University Avenue West, University of Waterloo
,Waterloo
,Ontario
,N2L 3G1
,Canada
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