The eastern Pacific intermediate oxygen minimum layer (OML) is particularly well‐developed and shoals close to the Mexican coast. We obtained hydrographic profiles including oxygen concentration [O], measured dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC), continuous surface pCO2 in water and air and took biological data south of the Gulf of California in March 2005. The core of the OML, with close to zero [O] was centered around 475 m with a thickness of the core varying between 80 m and 700 m and the upper limit of the core ranging from 500 m to 80 m. At the surface [O] was close to air‐saturation and showed no relation with the depth of the OML contrary to DIC and pCO2 concentrations. Below 50‐m depth the changes in DIC and Apparent Oxygen Utilization (AOU) yielding a molar ratio of δDIC = 0.79 x δAOU. When the OML shoaled, surface temperature, chlorophyll concentration [CHL], and depth‐integrated zooplankton increased, resulting in positive correlations among plankton biomass, pCO2, and DIC in surface waters. When [CHL] is recalculated as particulate organic carbon (POC), a linear relationship with the sum of DIC and POC is observed as expected for concomitant transport of DIC and inorganic nutrients supporting POC formation. Neglecting ventilation of carbon into the atmosphere and the production of dissolved organic carbon, the results suggested that ~16% of the carbon transported up from the OML was present in surface waters in the form of POC and the rest in inorganic form.
Con el propósito de estudiar el efecto de las ondas internas en la producción primaria y la biomasa del fitoplancton, se realizó un experimento en la región de las grandes islas del Golfo de California al final del otoño. Durante 48 horas se monitoreó un punto al este de Isla Ángel de la Guarda, y se tomaron muestras de agua para medir pH, oxígeno disuelto, nutrientes inorgánicos (NO 3 y PO 4 ) y clorofila a. Se generaron curvas fotosíntesis-irradiancia para muestras de fitoplancton colectadas de profundidades correspondientes a los niveles de luz de 50% y 1% de la irradiancia superficial (E o ). Las ondas internas cambiaron la estructura de la columna de agua significativamente. A profundidades > 20 m las concentraciones de nutrientes aumentaron hasta el doble, con incrementos de hasta > 1.0 µM de PO 4 y > 7.0 µM de NO 3 . La clorofila a aumentó hasta > 40% entre la superficie y el máximo profundo de clorofila. El número de asimilación, P * m , para la profundidad de 50%E o disminuyó a cerca de 20% de su valor inicial, sin un cambio aparente de este parámetro para el fitoplancton colectado de la profundidad de 1%E o . Los datos obtenidos apoyan la hipótesis de que P * m disminuyó debido a la advección vertical en el área, por transporte del fitoplancton de aguas profundas hacia la superficie, fotoaclimatado a irradiancias más bajas. Se discute sobre la importancia de tomar estos fenómenos en consideración al calcular la producción primaria para estas áreas tan dinámicas, usando datos de sensores remotos y modelos clorofila-luz.
El golfo de California es uno de los ecosistemas marinos más productivos del planeta. Es un sistema eutrófico con una producción fitoplanctónica (PF) integrada de >1 g C m-2 día-1 y en algunos lugares >4 g C m-2 día-1 (Álvarez-Borrego y Nutrient input from the Colorado River to the northern Gulf of California is not required to maintain a productive pelagic ecosystem El aporte de nutrientes del río Colorado al norte del golfo de California no se requiere para mantener un ecosistema pelágico productivo
Dinoflagellate cysts with dinosporin walls were identified for the first time in samples collected at Todos Santos Bay, Baja California, Mexico, during winter-spring 2000. Eighteen neritic species characteristic of temperate to temperate-cool neritic regions were identified, mainly from the Gonyaulacaceae and Congruentidiaceae families. The cysts were concentrated in the coastal zone, at depths shallower than 25 m, associated with surface fine sediments. Lingulodinium polyedrum (Stein) Dodge was the dominant species in both the sediments and in the water column, producing spring and summer red tides in the area.
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