Combined data set of geochemicals and OTU abundance

A subset of the geochemical and normalized OTU abundance data sets at 7 depths for Saanich Inlet Cruise 72.

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Format

A data frame with 7 rows and 10 variables:

Cruise

Numerical identifier of individual cruises. Units: Numeric string

Depth

Sampling depth. Units: Meters

OTU0001

Operational taxonomic unit 1

OTU0002

Operational taxonomic unit 2

OTU0003

Operational taxonomic unit 3

OTU0004

Operational taxonomic unit 4

NO3

Nitrate (Bran Luebbe AutoAnalyser - colorimetric). Units: Micromolar

Mean_NO2

Average concentration of Nitrite for each depth (colorimetric assay). Units: Micromolar

Mean_N2O

Average concentration of Nitrous oxide (headspace or automated purge-and-trap). Units: Nanomolar

Mean_NH4

Average concentration of Ammonium for each depth (fluorometric assay). Units: Micromolar

Source

For a brief introduction to the data, see Hallam SJ et al. 2017. Monitoring microbial responses to ocean deoxygenation in a model oxygen minimum zone. Sci Data 4: 170158. doi: 10.1038/sdata.2017.158. More detailed information on the geochemical data can be found in Torres-Beltrán M et al. 2017. A compendium of geochemical information from the Saanich Inlet water column. Sci Data 4: 170159. doi: 10.1038/sdata.2017.159 (dataset). More detailed information on the mutli-omic microbial data can be found in Hawley AK et al. 2017. A compendium of multi-omic sequence information from the Saanich Inlet water column. Sci Data 4: 170160. doi: 10.1038/sdata.2017.160.