Publication Date:
2022-05-26
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© The Author(s), 2018. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License. The definitive version was published in Biogeosciences 15 (2018): 649-667, doi:10.5194/bg-15-649-2018.
Description:
Parameterizations of surface ocean isoprene concentrations are numerous, despite the lack of source/sink process understanding. Here we present isoprene and related field measurements in the mixed layer from the Indian Ocean and the eastern Pacific Ocean to investigate the production and consumption rates in two contrasting regions, namely oligotrophic open ocean and the coastal upwelling region. Our data show that the ability of different phytoplankton functional types (PFTs) to produce isoprene seems to be mainly influenced by light, ocean temperature, and salinity. Our field measurements also demonstrate that nutrient availability seems to have a direct influence on the isoprene production. With the help of pigment data, we calculate in-field isoprene production rates for different PFTs under varying biogeochemical and physical conditions. Using these new calculated production rates, we demonstrate that an additional significant and variable loss, besides a known chemical loss and a loss due to air–sea gas exchange, is needed to explain the measured isoprene concentration. We hypothesize that this loss, with a lifetime for isoprene between 10 and 100 days depending on the ocean region, is potentially due to degradation or consumption by bacteria.
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Sonja Endres’ work was additionally funded by the
Cluster of Excellence 80 “The Future Ocean”. The Future Ocean
is funded within the framework of the Excellence Initiative by the
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) on behalf of the German
federal and state governments. This work was carried out under
the Helmholtz Young Investigator Group of Christa A. Marandino,
TRASE-EC (VH-NG-819), from the Helmholtz Association
through the President’s Initiative and Networking Fund and the
GEOMAR Helmholtz-Zentrum für Ozeanforschung Kiel.
Repository Name:
Woods Hole Open Access Server
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Article
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