Publication Date:
2023-05-12
Description:
1. ATP in deep-sea sediments can be determined after it is adsorbed on a mixture of the sediment and calcium carbonate by measuring the luminescence of the reaction of the mixture and luciferin-luciferase.
2. ATP contents of the toplayer of northeastern Atlantic sediments (Josephine Bank and northern Canary Basin) decrease with increasing depths of 252, 408, 1445, 1769, 2149, 4897, 5510m: 0.96, 0.61, 0.13, 0.10, 0.21, 0.05, 0.07 µg ATP/ml wet sediment. The decreasing values are in accordance with the decrease of macrobenthos and meiobenthos biomass in the deep-sea.
3. The ATP content of deep-sea nematodes is about 1 ‰ of their wet weight.
4. At the two deepest stations, less than 50% of the ATP measured in the sediment is represented by nematodes, copepods, other “hard” meiofauna groups and bacteria.
Keywords:
Adenosine 5-Triphosphate; BCR; Box corer (Reineck); DEPTH, sediment/rock; Elevation of event; Event label; Latitude of event; Longitude of event; M23; M23_122; M23_123; M23_133; M23_134; M23_135; M23_137; M23_138; Meteor (1964); Nordost-Atlantik-Expedition 1971; South Atlantic Ocean; van Veen Grab; VGRAB
Type:
Dataset
Format:
text/tab-separated-values, 14 data points
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