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

Zhibo Shao; Yangchun Xu; Hua Wang; Weicheng Luo; Lice Wang; Yuhong Huang; Nona Sheila R. Agawin; Ayaz Ahmed; Mar Benavides; Mikkel Bentzon-Tilia; Ilana Berman-Frank; Hugo Berthelot; Isabelle C. Biegala; Mariana B. Bif; Antonio Bode; Sophie Bonnet; Deborah A. Bronk; Mark V. Brown; Lisa Campbell; Douglas G. Capone; Edward J. Carpenter; Nicolas Cassar; Bonnie X. Chang; Dreux Chappell; Yuh-ling Lee Chen; Matthew J. Church; Francisco M. Cornejo-Castillo; Amália Maria Sacilotto Detoni; Scott C. Doney; Cecile Dupouy; Marta Estrada; Camila Fernandez; Bieito Fernández-Castro; Debany Fonseca-Batista; Rachel A. Foster; Ken Furuya; Nicole Garcia; Kanji Goto; Jesús Gago; Mary R. Gradoville; M. Robert Hamersley; Britt A. Henke; Cora Hörstmann; Amal Jayakumar; Zhibing Jiang; Shuh-Ji Kao; David M. Karl; Leila R. Kittu; Angela N. Knapp; Sanjeev Kumar; Julie LaRoche; Hongbin Liu; Jiaxing Liu; Caroline Lory; Carolin R. Löscher; Emilio Marañón; Lauren F. Messer; Matthew M. Mills; Wiebke Mohr; Pia H. Moisander; Claire Mahaffey; Robert Moore; Beatriz Mouriño-Carballido; Margaret R. Mulholland; Shin-ichiro Nakaoka; Joseph A. Needoba; Eric J. Raes; Eyal Rahav; Teodoro Ramírez-Cárdenas; Christian Furbo Reeder; Lasse Riemann; Virginie Riou; Julie C. Robidart; Vedula V. S. S. Sarma; Takuya Sato; Himanshu Saxena; Corday Selden; Justin R. Seymour; Dalin Shi; Takuhei Shiozaki; Arvind Singh; Rachel E. Sipler; Jun Sun; Koji Suzuki; Kazutaka Takahashi; Yehui Tan; Weiyi Tang; Jean-Éric Tremblay; Kendra Turk-Kubo; Zuozhu Wen; Angelicque E. White; Samuel T. Wilson; Takashi Yoshida; Jonathan P. Zehr; Run Zhang; Yao Zhang; Ya-Wei Luo

doi:10.5194/essd-15-3673-2023

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

Zhibo Shao, Yangchun Xu, Hua Wang, Weicheng Luo, Lice Wang, Yuhong Huang, Nona Sheila R. Agawin, Ayaz Ahmed, Mar Benavides, Mikkel Bentzon-Tilia, Ilana Berman-Frank, Hugo Berthelot, Isabelle C. Biegala, Mariana B. Bif, Antonio Bode, Sophie Bonnet, Deborah A. Bronk, Mark V. Brown, Lisa Campbell, Douglas G. CaponeEdward J. Carpenter, Nicolas Cassar, Bonnie X. Chang, Dreux Chappell, Yuh-ling Lee Chen, Matthew J. Church, Francisco M. Cornejo-Castillo, Amália Maria Sacilotto Detoni, Scott C. Doney, Cecile Dupouy, Marta Estrada, Camila Fernandez, Bieito Fernández-Castro, Debany Fonseca-Batista, Rachel A. Foster, Ken Furuya, Nicole Garcia, Kanji Goto, Jesús Gago, Mary R. Gradoville, M. Robert Hamersley, Britt A. Henke, Cora Hörstmann, Amal Jayakumar, Zhibing Jiang, Shuh-Ji Kao, David M. Karl, Leila R. Kittu, Angela N. Knapp, Sanjeev Kumar, Julie LaRoche, Hongbin Liu, Jiaxing Liu, Caroline Lory, Carolin R. Löscher, Emilio Marañón, Lauren F. Messer, Matthew M. Mills, Wiebke Mohr, Pia H. Moisander, Claire Mahaffey, Robert Moore, Beatriz Mouriño-Carballido, Margaret R. Mulholland, Shin-ichiro Nakaoka, Joseph A. Needoba, Eric J. Raes, Eyal Rahav, Teodoro Ramírez-Cárdenas, Christian Furbo Reeder, Lasse Riemann, Virginie Riou, Julie C. Robidart, Vedula V. S. S. Sarma, Takuya Sato, Himanshu Saxena, Corday Selden, Justin R. Seymour, Dalin Shi, Takuhei Shiozaki, Arvind Singh, Rachel E. Sipler, Jun Sun, Koji Suzuki, Kazutaka Takahashi, Yehui Tan, Weiyi Tang, Jean-Éric Tremblay, Kendra Turk-Kubo, Zuozhu Wen, Angelicque E. White, Samuel T. Wilson, Takashi Yoshida, Jonathan P. Zehr, Run Zhang, Yao Zhang, Ya-Wei Luo^*

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Marine diazotrophs convert dinitrogen (N2) 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 N₂ 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 N₂ 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 N₂ fixation rates using the geometric means of different ocean basins, version 1 and version 2 yield similar rates (43–57 versus 45–63 Tg N yr⁻¹; ranges based on one geometric standard error). In contrast, when using arithmetic means, version 2 suggests a significantly higher rate of 223±30 Tg N yr⁻¹ (mean ± standard error; same hereafter) compared to version 1 (74±7 Tg N yr⁻¹). Specifically, substantial rate increases are estimated for the South Pacific Ocean (88±23 versus 20±2 Tg N yr⁻¹), primarily driven by measurements in the southwestern subtropics, and for the North Atlantic Ocean (40±9 versus 10±2 Tg N yr⁻¹). Moreover, version 2 estimates the N₂ fixation rate in the Indian Ocean to be 35±14 Tg N yr⁻¹, which could not be estimated using version 1 due to limited data availability. Furthermore, a comparison of N₂ fixation rates obtained through different measurement methods at the same months, locations, and depths reveals that the conventional 15N₂ bubble method yields lower rates in 69 % cases compared to the new 15N2 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).

Original language	English
Journal	Earth System Science Data
Volume	15
Issue number	8
Pages (from-to)	3673-3709
Number of pages	37
ISSN	1866-3508
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-15-3673-2023
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Shao, Z., Xu, Y., Wang, H., Luo, W., Wang, L., Huang, Y., Agawin, N. S. R., Ahmed, A., Benavides, M., Bentzon-Tilia, M., Berman-Frank, I., Berthelot, H., Biegala, I. C., Bif, M. B., Bode, A., Bonnet, S., Bronk, D. A., Brown, M. V., Campbell, L., ... Luo, Y.-W. (2023). Global oceanic diazotroph database version 2 and elevated estimate of global oceanic N₂ fixation. Earth System Science Data, 15(8), 3673-3709. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-15-3673-2023

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AU - Riou, Virginie

AU - Robidart, Julie C.

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N2 - Marine diazotrophs convert dinitrogen (N2) 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 N2 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 N2 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 N2 fixation rates using the geometric means of different ocean basins, version 1 and version 2 yield similar rates (43–57 versus 45–63 Tg N yr−1; ranges based on one geometric standard error). In contrast, when using arithmetic means, version 2 suggests a significantly higher rate of 223±30 Tg N yr−1 (mean ± standard error; same hereafter) compared to version 1 (74±7 Tg N yr−1). Specifically, substantial rate increases are estimated for the South Pacific Ocean (88±23 versus 20±2 Tg N yr−1), primarily driven by measurements in the southwestern subtropics, and for the North Atlantic Ocean (40±9 versus 10±2 Tg N yr−1). Moreover, version 2 estimates the N2 fixation rate in the Indian Ocean to be 35±14 Tg N yr−1, which could not be estimated using version 1 due to limited data availability. Furthermore, a comparison of N2 fixation rates obtained through different measurement methods at the same months, locations, and depths reveals that the conventional 15N2 bubble method yields lower rates in 69 % cases compared to the new 15N2 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).

AB - Marine diazotrophs convert dinitrogen (N2) 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 N2 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 N2 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 N2 fixation rates using the geometric means of different ocean basins, version 1 and version 2 yield similar rates (43–57 versus 45–63 Tg N yr−1; ranges based on one geometric standard error). In contrast, when using arithmetic means, version 2 suggests a significantly higher rate of 223±30 Tg N yr−1 (mean ± standard error; same hereafter) compared to version 1 (74±7 Tg N yr−1). Specifically, substantial rate increases are estimated for the South Pacific Ocean (88±23 versus 20±2 Tg N yr−1), primarily driven by measurements in the southwestern subtropics, and for the North Atlantic Ocean (40±9 versus 10±2 Tg N yr−1). Moreover, version 2 estimates the N2 fixation rate in the Indian Ocean to be 35±14 Tg N yr−1, which could not be estimated using version 1 due to limited data availability. Furthermore, a comparison of N2 fixation rates obtained through different measurement methods at the same months, locations, and depths reveals that the conventional 15N2 bubble method yields lower rates in 69 % cases compared to the new 15N2 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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