Global oceanic diazotroph database version 2 and elevated estimate of global oceanic N2 fixation

Type Article
Date 2023-08
Language English
Author(s) Shao Zhibo1, Xu YangchunORCID1, Wang Hua1, Luo Weicheng1, Wang Lice1, Huang Yuhong1, Agawin Nona Sheila R.2, Ahmed Ayaz3, Benavides Mar4, 5, Bentzon-Tilia Mikkel6, Berman-Frank Ilana7, Berthelot Hugo8, Biegala Isabelle C.4, Bif Mariana B.9, Bode Antonio10, Bonnet Sophie4, Bronk Deborah A.11, Brown Mark V.12, Campbell Lisa13, Capone Douglas G.14, Carpenter Edward J.15, Cassar Nicolas16, 17, Chang Bonnie X.18, Chappell Dreux19, Chen Yuh-Ling Lee20, Church Matthew J.21, Cornejo-Castillo Francisco M.22, Detoni Amalia Maria Sacilotto23, Doney Scott C.24, Dupouy Cecile4, Estrada Marta22, Fernandez Camila25, 26, Fernandez-Castro Bieito27, Fonseca-Batista Debany28, Foster Rachel A.29, Furuya Ken30, Garcia Nicole4, Goto Kanji31, Gago Jesus32, Gradoville Mary R.33, Hamersley M. Robert34, Henke Britt A.35, Horstmann Cora4, Jayakumar Amal36, Jiang Zhibing37, Kao Shuh-Ji, Karl David M.38, Kittu Leila R.39, Knapp Angela N.40, Kumar Sanjeev41, Laroche Julie42, Liu Hongbin43, Liu Jiaxing44, Lory Caroline45, Loscher Carolin R.46, Maranon Emilio47, Messer Lauren F.48, Mills Matthew M.49, Mohr Wiebke50, Moisander Pia H.51, Mahaffey Claire52, Moore Robert53, Mourino-Carballido Beatriz47, Mulholland Margaret R.54, Nakaoka Shin-Ichiro55, Needoba Joseph A.56, Raes Eric J.57, Rahav Eyal58, Ramirez-Cardenas Teodoro59, Reeder Christian Furbo4, Riemann Lasse60, Riou Virginie61, Robidart Julie C.62, Sarma Vedula V. S. S.63, Sato Takuya64, Saxena Himanshu41, Selden Corday65, Seymour Justin R.66, Shi Dalin, Shiozaki Takuhei67, Singh Arvind41, Sipler Rachel E.12, Sun Jun68, 69, Suzuki Koji70, Takahashi Kazutaka71, Tan Yehui44, Tang Weiyi36, Tremblay Jean-Eric72, Turk-Kubo Kendra, Wen Zuozhu, White Angelicque E.38, Wilson Samuel T.73, Yoshida Takashi74, Zehr Jonathan P.35, Zhang Run1, Zhang Yao1, Luo Ya-Wei1
Affiliation(s) 1 : Xiamen Univ, State Key Lab Marine Environm Sci, Xiamen, Fujian, Peoples R China.
2 : Univ Balear Islands, Marine Ecol & Syst MarES Res Grp, Palma de Mallorca, Spain.
3 : Kuwait Inst Sci Res, Environm & Life Sci Res Ctr, Salmiya, Kuwait.
4 : Aix Marseille Univ, Univ Toulon, CNRS, IRD,MIO,UM 110, F-13288 Marseille, France.
5 : Aix Marseille Univ, Turing Ctr Living Syst, F-13009 Marseille, France.
6 : Tech Univ Denmark, Dept Biotechnol & Biomed, Lyngby, Denmark.
7 : Univ Haifa, Leon H Charney Sch Marine Sci, Dept Marine Biol, Haifa, Israel.
8 : IFREMER, DYNECO, Plouzane, France.
9 : Monterey Bay Aquarium Res Inst, Moss Landing, CA USA.
10 : Spanish Inst Oceanog IEO CSIC, Oceanog Ctr A Coruna, La Coruna, Spain.
11 : Bigelow Lab Ocean Sci, East Boothbay, ME USA.
12 : Univ Technol Sydney, Climate Change Cluster, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
13 : Texas A&M Univ, Dept Oceanog, College Stn, TX USA.
14 : Univ Southern Calif, Marine & Environm Biol Sect, Dept Biol Sci, Los Angeles, CA USA.
15 : San Francisco State Univ, Coll Sci & Engn, San Francisco, CA USA.
16 : Duke Univ, Nicholas Sch Environm, Div Earth & Ocean Sci, Durham, NC USA.
17 : Univ Brest, CNRS, IRD, IFREMER,LEMAR, Plouzane, France.
18 : Vesta, PBC, Southampton, NY USA.
19 : Univ S Florida, Coll Marine Sci, Tampa, FL USA.
20 : Natl Sun Yat Sen Univ, Dept Oceanog, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
21 : Univ Montana, Flathead Lake Biol Stn, Polson, MT USA.
22 : Inst Marine Sci ICM CSIC, Barcelona, Spain.
23 : CSIC, Inst Marine Sci Andalucia ICMAN, Campus Rio San Pedro, Puerto Real, Spain.
24 : Univ Virginia, Dept Environm Sci, Charlottesville, VA USA.
25 : CNRS Observatoire oceanolog, Banyuls Sur Mer, France.
26 : Univ Concepcion, Ctr Oceanog Res COPAS Coastal, Vigo, Chile.
27 : Univ Southampton, Natl Oceanog Ctr, Ocean & Earth Sci, Southampton, Hants, England.
28 : Dalhousie Univ, Dept Oceanog, Halifax, NS, Canada.
29 : Stockholm Univ, Dept Ecol Environm & Plant Sci, Stockholm, Sweden.
30 : Soka Univ, Inst Plankton Ecoengn, Hachioji, Tokyo, Japan.
31 : Hokkaido Univ, Sch Environm Sci, Kita Ku, Sapporo, Japan.
32 : Ctr Oceanograf Vigo, Spanish Inst Oceanog IEO CSIC, Concepcion, Spain.
33 : Columbia River Inter Tribal Fish Commiss, Portland, OR USA.
34 : Soka Univ Amer, Environm Studies, Aliso Viejo, CA USA.
35 : Univ Calif Santa Cruz, Ocean Sci Dept, Santa Cruz, CA USA.
36 : Princeton Univ, Dept Geosci, Princeton, NJ 08544 USA.
37 : Minist Nat Resources, Inst Oceanog 2, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, Peoples R China.
38 : Univ Hawaii Manoa, Dept Oceanog, Honolulu, HI USA.
39 : GEOMAR Helmholtz Ctr Ocean Res Kiel, Marine Biogeochem, Kiel, Germany.
40 : Florida State Univ, Dept Earth Ocean & Atmospher Sci, Tallahassee, FL 32306 USA.
41 : Phys Res Lab, Geosci Div, Ahmadabad, Gujarat, India.
42 : Dalhousie Univ, Dept Biol, Halifax, NS, Canada.
43 : Hong Kong Univ Sci & Technol, Dept Ocean Sci, Hong Kong, Peoples R China.
44 : Chinese Acad Sci, South China Sea Inst Oceanol, Key Lab Trop Marine Bioresources & Ecol, Guangzhou, Guangdong, Peoples R China.
45 : IRD, French Natl Res Inst Sustainable Dev, Marseille, France.
46 : Univ Southern Denmark, Dept Biol, DIAS, Odense, Denmark.
47 : Univ Vigo, Ctr Invest Marina Univ Vigo CIMUVigo, Dept Ecol & Biol Anim, Campus Lagoas Marcosende, Vigo, Spain.
48 : Univ Stirling, Div Biol & Environm Sci, Fac Nat Sci, Stirling, Scotland.
49 : Stanford Univ, Earth Syst Sci, Stanford, CA USA.
50 : Max Planck Inst Marine Microbiol, Bremen, Germany.
51 : Univ Massachusetts Dartmouth, Dept Biol, Dartmouth, MA USA.
52 : Univ Liverpool, Dept Earth Ocean & Ecol Sci, Liverpool, Merseyside, England.
53 : Dalhousie Univ, Dept Oceanog, Halifax, NS, Canada.
54 : Old Dominion Univ, Dept Ocean & Atmospher Sci, Norfolk, VA USA.
55 : Natl Inst Environm Studies, Ctr Global Environm Res, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan.
56 : Oregon Hlth & Sci Univ Portland, OHSU PSU Sch Publ Hlth, Portland, OR USA.
57 : Minderoo Fdn, Flourishing Oceans, Nedlands, WA, Australia.
58 : Natl Inst Oceanog, Israel Oceanog & Limnol Res, Haifa, Israel.
59 : CSIC, Inst Espanol Oceanog IEO, Ctr Oceanog Malaga, Fuengirola, Spain.
60 : Univ Copenhagen, Dept Biol, Helsingor, Denmark.
61 : Vrije Univ Brussel, Analyt Environm & Geochem Earth Syst Sci, Brussels, Belgium.
62 : Natl Oceanog Ctr, Southampton, Hants, England.
63 : CSIR Natl Inst Oceanog, Reg Cente Waltair, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India.
64 : Kyoto Univ, Inst Chem Res, Kyoto, Japan.
65 : Rutgers State Univ, Dept Marine & Coastal Sci, New Brunswick, NJ USA.
66 : Univ Technol Sydney, Climate Change Cluster, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
67 : Univ Tokyo, Atmosphere & Ocean Res Inst, Chiba, Japan.
68 : Tianjin Univ Sci & Technol, Res Ctr Indian Ocean Ecosyst, Tianjin, Peoples R China.
69 : China Univ Geosci Wuhan, Coll Marine Sci & Technol, Wuhan, Hubei, Peoples R China.
70 : Hokkaido Univ, Fac Environm Earth Sci, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan.
71 : Univ Tokyo, Grad Sch Agr & Life Sci, Tokyo, Japan.
72 : Laval Univ, Dept Biol, Quebec Ocean & Takuvik, Quebec City, PQ, Canada.
73 : Newcastle Univ, Sch Nat & Environm Sci, Newcastle Upon Tyne, Tyne & Wear, England.
74 : Kyoto Univ, Grad Sch Agr, Kitashirakawa Oiwake,Sakyo ku, Kyoto, Japan.
Source Earth System Science Data (1866-3508) (Copernicus Gesellschaft Mbh), 2023-08 , Vol. 15 , N. 8 , P. 3673-3709
DOI 10.5194/essd-15-3673-2023
WOS© Times Cited 7
Abstract

Marine diazotrophs convert dinitrogen (N-2) gas into bioavailable nitrogen (N), supporting life in the global ocean. In 2012, the first version of the global oceanic diazotroph database (version 1) was published. Here, we present an updated version of the database (version 2), significantly increasing the number of in situ diazotrophic measurements from 13 565 to 55 286. Data points for N-2 fixation rates, diazotrophic cell abundance, and nifH gene copy abundance have increased by 184 %, 86 %, and 809 %, respectively. Version 2 includes two new data sheets for the nifH gene copy abundance of non-cyanobacterial diazotrophs and cell-specific N2 fixation rates. The measurements of N-2 fixation rates approximately follow a log-normal distribution in both version 1 and version 2. However, version 2 considerably extends both the left and right tails of the distribution. Consequently, when estimating global oceanic N-2 fixation rates using the geometric means of different ocean basins, version 1 and version 2 yield similar rates (43-57 versus 45-63 TgNyr (-1); ranges based on one geometric standard error). In contrast, when using arithmetic means, version 2 suggests a significantly higher rate of 223 +/- 30 TgNyr (-1) (mean +/- standard error; same hereafter) compared to version 1 (74 +/- 7 TgNyr (-1)). Specifically, substantial rate increases are estimated for the South Pacific Ocean (88 +/- 23 versus 20 +/- 2 TgNyr 1), primarily driven by measurements in the southwestern subtropics, and for the North Atlantic Ocean (40 +/- 9 versus 10 +/- 2 TgNyr (-1)). Moreover, version 2 estimates the N-2 fixation rate in the Indian Ocean to be 35 +/- 14 TgNyr (-1), which could not be estimated using version 1 due to limited data availability. Furthermore, a comparison of N-2 fixation rates obtained through different measurement methods at the same months, locations, and depths reveals that the conventional N-15(2) bubble method yields lower rates in 69% cases compared to the new N-15(2) dissolution method. This updated version of the database can facilitate future studies in marine ecology and biogeochemistry. The database is stored at the Figshare repository (https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.21677687; Shao et al., 2022).
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Shao Zhibo, Xu Yangchun, Wang Hua, Luo Weicheng, Wang Lice, Huang Yuhong, Agawin Nona Sheila R., Ahmed Ayaz, Benavides Mar, Bentzon-Tilia Mikkel, Berman-Frank Ilana, Berthelot Hugo, Biegala Isabelle C., Bif Mariana B., Bode Antonio, Bonnet Sophie, Bronk Deborah A., Brown Mark V., Campbell Lisa, Capone Douglas G., Carpenter Edward J., Cassar Nicolas, Chang Bonnie X., Chappell Dreux, Chen Yuh-Ling Lee, Church Matthew J., Cornejo-Castillo Francisco M., Detoni Amalia Maria Sacilotto, Doney Scott C., Dupouy Cecile, Estrada Marta, Fernandez Camila, Fernandez-Castro Bieito, Fonseca-Batista Debany, Foster Rachel A., Furuya Ken, Garcia Nicole, Goto Kanji, Gago Jesus, Gradoville Mary R., Hamersley M. Robert, Henke Britt A., Horstmann Cora, Jayakumar Amal, Jiang Zhibing, Kao Shuh-Ji, Karl David M., Kittu Leila R., Knapp Angela N., Kumar Sanjeev, Laroche Julie, Liu Hongbin, Liu Jiaxing, Lory Caroline, Loscher Carolin R., Maranon Emilio, Messer Lauren F., Mills Matthew M., Mohr Wiebke, Moisander Pia H., Mahaffey Claire, Moore Robert, Mourino-Carballido Beatriz, Mulholland Margaret R., Nakaoka Shin-Ichiro, Needoba Joseph A., Raes Eric J., Rahav Eyal, Ramirez-Cardenas Teodoro, Reeder Christian Furbo, Riemann Lasse, Riou Virginie, Robidart Julie C., Sarma Vedula V. S. S., Sato Takuya, Saxena Himanshu, Selden Corday, Seymour Justin R., Shi Dalin, Shiozaki Takuhei, Singh Arvind, Sipler Rachel E., Sun Jun, Suzuki Koji, Takahashi Kazutaka, Tan Yehui, Tang Weiyi, Tremblay Jean-Eric, Turk-Kubo Kendra, Wen Zuozhu, White Angelicque E., Wilson Samuel T., Yoshida Takashi, Zehr Jonathan P., Zhang Run, Zhang Yao, Luo Ya-Wei (2023). Global oceanic diazotroph database version 2 and elevated estimate of global oceanic N2 fixation. Earth System Science Data, 15(8), 3673-3709. Publisher's official version : https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-15-3673-2023 , Open Access version : https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00857/96879/