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- Understanding the concentrations and elemental ratios of suspended particles in the ocean is key to studying biogeochemical processes, including nutrient limitations for phytoplankton and the interactions between carbon and nitrogen or phosphorus cycles.
- A global dataset has been compiled with 100,605 measurements of particulate organic carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus from 70 ocean cruises and time-series, covering all major ocean regions and various depths.
- The global median ratios for carbon to phosphorus (C:P), nitrogen to phosphorus (N:P), and carbon to nitrogen (C:N) are 163, 22, and 6.6, respectively, but there is significant variation based on regional differences, aiming to aid future ocean studies.
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Knowledge of concentrations and elemental ratios of suspended particles are important for understanding many biogeochemical processes in the ocean. These include patterns of phytoplankton nutrient limitation as well as linkages between the cycles of carbon and nitrogen or phosphorus. To further enable studies of ocean biogeochemistry, we here present a global dataset consisting of 100,605 total measurements of particulate organic carbon, nitrogen, or phosphorus analyzed as part of 70 cruises or time-series. The data are globally distributed and represent all major ocean regions as well as different depths in the water column. The global median C:P, N:P, and C:N ratios are 163, 22, and 6.6, respectively, but the data also includes extensive variation between samples from different regions. Thus, this compilation will hopefully assist in a wide range of future studies of ocean elemental ratios.
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