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Particulate matter was collected in the Bering Sea and the northern North Pacific Ocean during the cruise of R. V. Hakuho-maru, Ocean Research Institute of Tokyo University in summer of 1975. The particulate matter was analyzed for organic carbon and nitrogen, chlorophylla and amino acids.
The concentrations of particulate organic carbon and nitrogen were measured with the range of 16–422ΜgC l−1 and 1–85ΜgN l−1, 19–186ΜgC l−1 and 1–26ΜgN l−1, 46–1,038ΜgC l−1 and 6–79ΜgN l−1 and 19–246ΜgC l−1 and 2–25ΜgN l−1 in the Oyashio, the Deep Bering Sea, the continental shelf of Bering Sea and the northern North Pacific, respectively. Particulate organic carbon and nitrogen decreased with depth throughout the areas. The average concentrations of organic carbon and nitrogen in the entire water column tended to decrease in the following order; the continental shelf > Oyashio > northern North Pacific > Deep Bering Sea.
C/N of particulate matter varied in the range of 3–15 (7 on average) in surface waters throughout the areas and these values tended to increase with depth to 5–20 (11 on average) in deep waters without significant regional variability.
Linear regressions between chlorophylla and particulate organic carbon in the euphotic layers indicate that detrital organic carbon accounted for 34.2, 44.9, 49.1 and 25.2 % of particulate organic carbon in the Oyashio, the Deep Bering Sea, the continental shelf and the northern North Pacific, respectively.
Particulate amino acid was determined in the range of 10.3–78.0Μg l−1, 104–156Μg l−1 and 10.4–96.4Μg l−1 in the Deep Bering Sea, the continental shelf and the northern North Pacific, respectively. Aspartic acid, glutamic acid, serine, glycine and alanine were found as dominant species of amino acid of particulate matter.
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Tanoue, E., Handa, N. Distribution of particulate organic carbon and nitrogen in the Bering Sea and northern North Pacific Ocean. Journal of the Oceanographical Society of Japan 35, 47–62 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02108282
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