Acknowledgments
This work was supported by institutional funds of the Alfred -Wegener-
Institut Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar-und Meeresforschung, Germany and
funds of the Helmholtz Association for financing the
Helmholtz-University Young Investigators Group PLANKTOSENS (Grant
VH-NG-500). Our special thanks go to the captains and crews of the
Research Vessel Polarstern , as well as to the members of the
mooring team who have mastered the comprehensive anchoring programme,
which was the basis of this study. Furthermore, we are very grateful to
Stefan Neuhaus, for bioinformatical support and owe special thanks to
Theresa Hargesheimer, Kerstin. Oetjen, and Swantje Rogge for the
excellent technical support in the laboratory. DFLOnda received support
from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research through the
Green Talents International Award Fellowship Program for his research
stay in AWI. The authors would also like to thank Erika Grace Gernato
for her help in finalizing the formatting of the manuscript.