Extrapolation of ex-situ bacterial production and community respiration rates at 22°C from incubations with water bottle samples from METEOR cruise M156

This dataset includes measured and calculated data over the epipelagic layer (0-200 m depth) of 25 stations with 14 of them inside or in the vicinity of a cyclonic eddy that formed off Mauritania along the ∼ 900 km zonal corridor between Mauritania and the Cabo Verde islands in the eastern Tropical North Atlantic during the M156 cruise on the RV Meteor from July 3rd to August 1st 2019. To extrapolate BP and CR rates to 22°C, we used equations from López-Urrutia and Morán for BP (BPU; 2007) and from Regaudie de Gioux and Duarte for CR (CRRG; 2012). we compared the rates of BP and CR measured ex-situ (BP_ex-situ and CR_ex-situ) with the rates obtained from BPU (BPU_14°C) and CRRG (CRRG_average temperature) at the temperature set during the incubations. References: López-Urrutia and Morá ,2007(https://doi.org/10.1890/06-1641); Regaudie de Gioux and Duarte, 2012 (https://doi.org/10.1029/2010GB003907)