©2020 Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office.The essential nutrient phosphorus is biologically scarce in the Sargasso Sea, yet the pelagic macroalgae Sargassum, for which this area of the North Atlantic Ocean is named, thrives. We tested the hypothesis that Sargassum holobionts utilize methylphosphonate (MPn) as an alternative source of phosphorus via bottle incubations, finding lysis liberated phosphonate-derived methane. The resulting data of methane production relative to various control conditions in the bottle system over time was use...
Show moreAll samples reported collected via various small boat operations and scientific divers from UCSB (2017 trials) or BIOS (2018-2019 trials).
Valentine, D. L., Parsons, R. J., Van Mooy, B. A. (2023) MPn-derived methane production by epiphytic bacteria on pelagic Sargassum seaweed from 2017-2019 (Cyanobacteria Hydrocarbons project). Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (BCO-DMO). (Version 1) Version Date 2023-10-10 [if applicable, indicate subset used]. doi:10.26008/1912/bco-dmo.911212.1 [access date]
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