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Woulds, Clare, van Oevelen, Dick, Hidalgo-Martinez, Silvia and Meysman, Filip (2026) The Inverted Microbial Loop Stimulates Mineralisation of Sedimentary Organic Detritus. University of Leeds. [Dataset] https://doi.org/10.5518/1729

Dataset description

Results from mesocosm experiments investigating benthic community respiration in intertidal sediment. Sediment was from the Oostershelde estuary,The Netherlands. Treatments included an intact control, as well as sediment with only microbes, only macrofauna, and a combination of microbes and macrofauna where the macrofaunal community was controlled. 13C labelled organic detritus was added at the start of experiments, and respiration as monitored over 7 days as both oxygen consumption and as production of 13C labelled dissolved inorganic carbon. Data are presented for respiration rates (both oxygen consumption and dissolved organic carbon production), and assimilation of added carbon by both macrofauna and bacteria.

Keywords:	Carbon, Benthic, Marine, Respiration, Microbial Loop
Subjects:	C000 - Biological sciences > C100 - Biology > C160 - Marine/Freshwater biology > C161 - Marine biology F000 - Physical sciences > F100 - Chemistry > F140 - Environmental chemistry > F141 - Marine chemistry F000 - Physical sciences > F600 - Geology > F630 - Geotechnology > F631 - Marine geotechnology
Divisions:	Faculty of Environment > School of Geography
License:	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Date deposited:	18 Feb 2026 14:46
URI:	https://archive.researchdata.leeds.ac.uk/id/eprint/1517
Additional details Additional details Creators or authors: Creators ORCID Other ID Email Primary affiliation Primary affiliation ID Primary affiliation ID type Secondary affiliation Secondary affiliation ID Secondary affiliation ID type Woulds, Clare https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3681-1468 University of Leeds https://ror.org/024mrxd33 ror van Oevelen, Dick https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1740-5317 Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research https://ror.org/01gntjh03 ror Hidalgo-Martinez, Silvia https://orcid.org/0009-0005-1878-0361 University of Antwerp https://ror.org/008x57b05 ror Meysman, Filip https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5334-7655 University of Antwerp https://ror.org/008x57b05 ror Type of data: Dataset Research funders: Royal Society, NWO (Dutch Research Council) Publication date: 2026 Resource language: English Metadata language: English Publisher: University of Leeds Contact email: c.woulds@leeds.ac.uk Last Modified: 18 Feb 2026 14:46

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