Pico- and Nanoplankton in the Chukchi Sea, quantified by flow cytometry, Arctic Integrated Ecosystem Research Program 2019

These data are part of the Arctic IES component of the Arctic Integrated Ecosystem Research Program (IERP), sponsored by the North Pacific Research Board (NPRB), Collaborative Alaskan Arctic Studies Program (formerly the North Slope Borough/Shell Baseline Studies Program), Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), and the Office of Naval Research Marine Mammals and Biology Program. This dataset is presented as a single comma separated values file. It includes discrete samples collected from niskin bottles for analysis of pico- and nanoplankton abundance by flow cytometry. Specifically population abundances for Synechococcus, picoeukaryotes (<3um), nanoeukaryotes (3-10um) and cryptophytes were quantified. Based upon the average size of cells in each of the identified populations, carbon per cell and carbon per population were estimated. Samples were collected in the Chukchi Sea during late summer. The file "Variable definitions_flow_cytometry_phytoplankton.docx" is a reference for the variable titles used as headers in the csv.

本数据集为北极综合生态系统研究计划（Arctic Integrated Ecosystem Research Program, IERP）北极IES子项目的一部分，该项目由北太平洋研究委员会（North Pacific Research Board, NPRB）、阿拉斯加北极协同研究计划（前身为北坡自治市/壳牌基线研究计划）、海洋能源管理局（Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, BOEM）以及美国海军研究办公室海洋哺乳动物与生物学项目联合资助。本数据集以单个逗号分隔值（Comma Separated Values, CSV）文件形式提供，包含从尼斯金采水瓶（Niskin bottles）中采集的离散样本，用于通过流式细胞术（flow cytometry）分析微微型与微型浮游植物的丰度。具体而言，研究人员对聚球藻（Synechococcus）、微微型真核藻类（<3μm）、微型真核藻类（3-10μm）以及隐藻的种群丰度进行了定量测定。基于各已鉴定种群的细胞平均尺寸，研究人员估算了单株细胞含碳量及对应种群的总含碳量。样本于夏末在楚科奇海（Chukchi Sea）采集。文件"Variable definitions_flow_cytometry_phytoplankton.docx"可作为该CSV文件表头所用变量名称的参考依据。