{
    "tag": 17573,
    "title": "Geochemical data to characterize physical and chemical properties of the Cenote Bang, a component of the Ox Bel Ha cave network within the subterranean estuary coastal aquifer of the Yucatan Peninsula, from December 2013 to January 2016",
    "pubdate": "2017",
    "sername": null,
    "series_name": null,
    "issue": "DOI:10.5066\/F7DJ5DJW",
    "publish": null,
    "publisher_name": null,
    "onlink": "https:\/\/cmgds.marine.usgs.gov\/catalog\/whcmsc\/SB_data_release\/DR_F7DJ5DJW\/CenoteBang_geochemdata_meta.faq.html",
    "format": null,
    "email": null,
    "descript": "Subterranean estuaries extend inland into density-stratified coastal carbonate aquifers that contain a surprising diversity of endemic animals (mostly crustaceans) within a highly oligotrophic environment. How complex ecosystems thrive in this globally-distributed, cryptic habitat (termed anchialine) is poorly understood. The northeastern margin of the Yucatan Peninsula contains over 250 km of mapped, diver-accessible caves passages where previous studies have suggested chemoautotrophic processes are the source of carbon and energy sustaining the anchialine food web.  This dataset, collected during four field events during U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Coastal and Marine Geology Program Field Activities 2015-013-FA and 2016-003-FA in conjunction with Texas A&M University reports geochemical properties of the water column from Cenote Bang, a component of the Ox Bel Ha cave network that is located 5 km inland from the coast.",
    "lang": null,
    "journal": null,
    "pwid": null,
    "originator": [
        {
            "name": "Pohlman, John W.",
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        },
        {
            "name": "Brankovits, David",
            "role": "Author"
        }
    ],
    "index_term": [
        {
            "thcode": 2,
            "code": "54",
            "name": "aquatic ecosystems",
            "scope": "Communities of interdependent organisms living primarily in or on water."
        },
        {
            "thcode": 2,
            "code": "93",
            "name": "biogeochemical cycling",
            "scope": "The cycling of chemical constituents through a biological system."
        },
        {
            "thcode": 2,
            "code": "315",
            "name": "ecosystem functions",
            "scope": "The total life activities of organisms in habitats and the effects of those activities on the nonliving components of the environment."
        },
        {
            "thcode": 2,
            "code": "2031",
            "name": "karst",
            "scope": "Landscape characterized by dissolution features in carbonate or evaporite terranes, often containing caves and sinkholes."
        },
        {
            "thcode": 15,
            "code": "007",
            "name": "environment",
            "scope": "Environmental resources, protection and conservation, for example environmental pollution, waste storage and treatment, environmental impact assessment, monitoring environmental risk, nature reserves, landscape, water quality, air quality, environmental modeling"
        },
        {
            "thcode": 15,
            "code": "012",
            "name": "inlandWaters",
            "scope": "Inland water features, drainage systems and characteristics, for example rivers and glaciers, salt lakes, water utilization plans, dams, currents, floods and flood hazards, water quality, hydrographic charts, watersheds, wetlands, hydrography"
        }
    ],
    "place_term": [],
    "image": [
        {
            "name": "https:\/\/www.sciencebase.gov\/catalog\/file\/get\/595540e7e4b04e08be532852?name=CenoteBang_geochemdata_browse.jpg",
            "description": "Depth-property plots (concentration and carbon isotopic composition) for dissolved organic and inorganic carbon compounds. Symbols of individual data points contain the uncertainty of the measured values."
        }
    ],
    "fan": [
        "2015-013-FA",
        "2016-003-FA"
    ]
}