Measurements of the salp Pyrosoma atlanticum, RV Investigator voyage IN2017_V04, Tasman Sea, Australia (2017)

As pyrosomes migrate vertically to 800 m daily, they have the potential to transport the carbon they consume at the surface to these depths. In the austral spring of 2017, a Pyrosoma atlanticum swarm was smpled in the Tasman Sea. Maximum biomass of pyrosomes was 360 mg WW·m−3, and pyrosomes were able to consume the majority (95%) of the phytoplankton community while at the surface. Voyage details (metadata, projects, other datasets either online or as downloads, publications and reports, events, maps etc) can be accessed at https://www.marine.csiro.au/data/trawler/survey_details.cfm?survey=IN2017_V04 If this data has been used in any products, please acknowledge with the following: We acknowledge the use of the CSIRO Marine National Facility (https://ror.org/01mae9353) in undertaking this research.

Citation: Henschke, N., Pakhomov, E. A., Kwong, L. E., Everett, J. D., Laiolo, L., Coghlan, A. R., & Suthers, I. M. (2019). Large vertical migrations of Pyrosoma atlanticum play an important role in active carbon transport. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 124, 1056–1070. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JG004918

Published: November 30, 2023 at 01:59

URL: https://www.marine.csiro.au/ipt/resource?r=in2017_v04_pyrosoma_atlanticum