Four-week mesocosm study with the following objectives: - to identify environmental and biotic factors in control of the production, chemistry and fate of exportable DOM in a coastal environment - to follow how DIN and DIP are transformed to DON and DOP and to measure their mineralisation - to analyse the optical properties of new DOM and to measure how radiation might change the optical properties - to validate current community-nutrient models for the marine system with particular emphasis on the mechanisms regulating shifts between carbon- and mineral nutrient limitation of bacterial growth rates, - to produce experimental data for further development and modification of the plankton community-nutrient model and – to incorporate DON and DOP into the present community-nutrient model.
Experimental study (floating mesocosm)
CNRS, Observatoire Océanologique, Banyuls sur Mer, France National Environmental Research Institute, Denmark School of Ocean Sciences, University of Wales Bangor, UK
Interdisciplinary study involving research organisations from Denmark, France and UK.