10.1594/PANGAEA.509893
Ernst, Wolfgang
Wolfgang
Ernst
Goerke, Helmut
Helmut
Goerke
ATP content in surface sediments of the Northeast Atlantic (Table 1)
PANGAEA
1974
Event label
Latitude of event
Longitude of event
Elevation of event
DEPTH, sediment/rock
Adenosine 5-Triphosphate
Box corer (Reineck)
van Veen Grab
M23
Meteor (1964)
1971-05-20T00:24:00/1971-05-23T05:48:00
en
Supplementary Dataset
14 data points
text/tab-separated-values
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported
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.
Supplement to: Ernst, Wolfgang; Goerke, Helmut (1974): Adenosin-5`-triphosphat (ATP) in Sedimenten und Nematoden der nordostatlantischen Tiefsee. Meteor Forschungsergebnisse, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Reihe C Geologie und Geophysik, Gebrüder Bornträger, Berlin, Stuttgart, C18, 35-42
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South Atlantic Ocean