Publication Date:
2024-04-25
Description:
Climate change and anthropogenic disturbances, among other factors, can change the seawater stoichiometry (C/N/P) and consequently elemental ratios of phytoplankton. This change in prey stoichiometry may not be tolerated by all grazer/predator species. Gelatinous and soft-bodied zooplankton (GZ) are suggested to be more resilient to such changes. We sampled GZ species (12 taxa in total) in the Northeast Pacific off British Columbia (Canada), determined their phosphorus (P) content and elemental ratios (C/P, N/P), and analysed intraspecific variability associated with size and ontogeny. P was determined as orthophosphate after acidic oxidative hydrolysis with 5 % H2SO4 according to Grasshoff et al. (1999). Carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) data were taken from Lüskow et al. (2021). P % DW (dry weight) decreased with size for Aequorea sp., Aurelia labiata, Cyanea capillata, and Salpa aspera (species with sufficient sample sizes). P % DW differed significantly for two development stages of the salp S. aspera. C/P and N/P were mostly size- and stage-independent. C/P values of GZ were generally higher than values of crustacean zooplankton.
Keywords:
11_Midwater_trawl; 24_Bongo_net; 26_Midwater_trawl; 29_Midwater_trawl; 33_Midwater_trawl; 38_Midwater_trawl; 43_Midwater_trawl; 58_Midwater_trawl; 7_Dip_net; 7_Midwater_trawl; BA03_CanTrawl250; BA04_CanTrawl250; BONGO; Bongo net; Calculated; Carbon/Phosphorus ratio; CPE1_Dip_net; CS02_CanTrawl250; CS09_CanTrawl250; CS13_CanTrawl250; CS15_CanTrawl250; CS18_CanTrawl250; Ctenophore; DATE/TIME; DEPTH, water; Duration; Edwards Modulyo Freeze Dryer (Oakville, Ontario, CA); EP02_CanTrawl250; Event label; Gear; H02_CanTrawl250; Hand net; Heteropod; HN; Hope_Island_Dip_net; I_Midwater_trawl; IBC01_CanTrawl250; IBC03_CanTrawl250; IBC10_CanTrawl250; Identification; IVI10_CanTrawl250; IVI15_CanTrawl250; Jellyfish; JF03_CanTrawl250; Latitude of event; Life stage; LJS07_CanTrawl250; Location; Longitude of event; Measured using callipers; Methods of Seawater Analysis, Third Edition (Grasshoff et al., 1999); Midwater trawl; Month; MSN; Multiple opening/closing net; MWT; Nitrogen/Phosphorus ratio; Northeast Pacific; P12_Multinet_Medi; P26_Ring_net; Parameter; Phosphorus, total; QCSD01_CanTrawl250; QCSD02_CanTrawl250; QCSD04_CanTrawl250; QCST02_CanTrawl250; QCST05_CanTrawl250; QCST07_CanTrawl250; QCST11_CanTrawl250; QCST12_CanTrawl250; QCST19_CanTrawl250; RI01_CanTrawl250; RI05_CanTrawl250; Ring net; RN; Salish Sea; Salp; Sample type; Size; Sooke_Bay_Dip_net; Species; Station label; stoichiometry; Subarctic Northeast Pacific; T01_CanTrawl250; T02_CanTrawl250; T04_CanTrawl250; T06_CanTrawl250; T07_Dip_net; Tissue, dry mass; Vessel; VI_north_tip_Dip_net; VI02_CanTrawl250; VI03_CanTrawl250; VI04_CanTrawl250; VI07_CanTrawl250; VI08_CanTrawl250; VI09_CanTrawl250; VI12_CanTrawl250; VI14_CanTrawl250; VI22_CanTrawl250; VI25_Bongo_net; Weighted; Wet mass; Year of observation
Type:
Dataset
Format:
text/tab-separated-values, 1583 data points
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