Microphytobenthos composition in Heron Reef, Australia, by High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) (July 2012)

We quantified pigment biomarkers by high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) to obtain a broad taxonomic classification of microphytobenthos (MPB) (i.e. identification of dominant taxa). Three replicate sediment cores were collected at 0, 50 and 100 m along transects 5-9 in Heron Reef lagoon (n=15) (Fig. 1). Transects 1-4 could not be processed because the means to have the samples analysed by HPLC were not available at the time of field data collection. Cores were stored frozen and scrapes taken from the top of each one and placed in cryovials immersed in dry ice. Samples were sent to the laboratory (CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research, Hobart, Australia) where pigments were extracted with 100% acetone during fifteen hours at 4°C after vortex mixing (30 seconds) and sonication (15 minutes). Samples were then centrifuged and filtered prior to the analysis of pigment composition with a Waters - Alliance HPLC system equipped with a photo-diode array detector. Pigments were separated using a Zorbax Eclipse XDB-C8 stainless steel 150 mm x 4.6 mm ID column with 3.5 µm particle size (Agilent Technologies) and a binary gradient system with an elevated column temperature following a modified version of the Van Heukelem and Thomas (2001) method. The separated pigments were detected at 436 nm and identified against standard spectra using Waters Empower software. Standards for HPLC system calibration were obtained from Sigma (USA) and DHI (Denmark).

Supplement to: Borrego-Acevedo, Rodney; Roelfsema, Christiaan M; Phinn, Stuart R; Grinham, Alistair (2014): Predicting distribution of microphytobenthos abundance on a reef platform by combining in-situ underwater spectrometry and pigment analysis. Limnology and Oceanography, 5(5), 461-470

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DOI https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.809111
PID https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.41223.d001
Related Identifier IsSupplementTo https://doi.org/10.1080/2150704X.2014.922723
Related Identifier References https://doi.org/10.1016/S0378-4347(00)00603-4
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Creator Borrego-Acevedo, Rodney; Roelfsema, Christiaan M ORCID logo; Phinn, Stuart R ORCID logo; Grinham, Alistair ORCID logo
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2013
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
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Resource Type Supplementary Dataset; Dataset
Format text/tab-separated-values
Size 120 data points
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (151.932W, -23.455S, 151.954E, -23.447N); Heron Reef, Great Barrier Reef, Queensland