Protist microscopy data from the ISA timeseries station on Svalbard 2011-14

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Jozef Wiktor, Anna Dabrowska, Cheshtaa Chitkara, Miriam Marquardt, Tove Gabrielsen and Anna Vader (2024): Protist microscopy data from the ISA timeseries station on Svalbard 2011-14. v1.0. GBIF.no. Dataset/Samplingevent. https://ipttest.hi.no/resource?r=eukarya_isa_timeseries&v=1.0

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Keywords

Timseries; Eukaryotes; Protists; Countdata; Svalbard; Microscopy

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Geographic Coverage

The data is collected from a single point with latitude - 78.26115N and longitude - 15.5337E.

Taxonomic Coverage

N/A

Temporal Coverage

Sampling Methods

Nisking bottles were used to collect sea water samples for microscopy data, which were later fixed with Glutaraldehye-lugol and refrigerated at UNIS, Svalbard. Samples were collected from various depths 5,15,25,60m for all three years.

Method step description:

1. Stored and fixed samples were then sent to IOPAN for microscopic analysis. Samples were prepared according to Utermohl method. 50 ml of the pelagic subsamle was sedimented in 50 ml cylinder attached to the utermohhl base plate for 24 hrs. This was kept in a cool, shaded place (to avoid convections). The sample was then analyzed by counting cells in the microscope's fields of view in transects through the bottom of the chamber. 50 dominant cell taxa were counted. At 100x magnification, transects usually covered most of the slide area and at 400 or 600x, counts were made in three transects (1 crossing middle and 2 on the sides of the chamber). The abundance was calculated taking into account the number of cells counted, the so-called chamber factor (the ratio of the field of view to the chamber area) the volume of the subsample used for sedimentation and the number of fields of view.

Bibliographic Citations

1. Dąbrowska, A. M., Wiktor, J. M., Wiktor, J. M., Kristiansen, S., Vader, A., & Gabrielsen, T. (2021). When a Year Is Not Enough: Further Study of the Seasonality of Planktonic Protist Communities Structure in an Ice-Free High Arctic Fjord (Adventfjorden, West Spitsbergen). Water, 13(14), Article 14. https://doi.org/10.3390/w13141990
2. Kubiszyn, A. M., Wiktor, J. M., Wiktor, J. M., Griffiths, C., Kristiansen, S., & Gabrielsen, T. M. (2017). The annual planktonic protist community structure in an ice-free high Arctic fjord (Adventfjorden, West Spitsbergen). Journal of Marine Systems, 169, 61–72. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmarsys.2017.01.013
3. Chitkara, C., Juul-Pedersen, T., Krawczyk, D., Søreide, J. E., Vader, A., Gradinger, R., HS Winding, M., & Vonnahme, T. R. (2024). Seasonality in phytoplankton communities and production in three Arctic fjords across a climate gradient. Progress in Oceanography, 227, 103317. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2024.103317

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