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<article-title>Environmental control of interannual and seasonal variability in dinoflagellate cyst export flux over 18 years in the Cape Blanc upwelling region (Mauritania)</article-title>
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<given-names>Surya Eldo V.</given-names>
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<surname>Zonneveld</surname>
<given-names>Karin A. F.</given-names>
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<institution>MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen</institution>, <addr-line>Bremen</addr-line>, <country>Germany</country>
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<institution>Department of Geosciences, University of Bremen</institution>, <addr-line>Bremen</addr-line>, <country>Germany</country>
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<institution>Constructor University, Department of Physics and Earth Sciences</institution>, <addr-line>Bremen</addr-line>, <country>Germany</country>
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<p>Edited by: Maria Luisa Machain-Castillo, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico</p>
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<p>Reviewed by: Iria Garc&#xed;a-Moreiras, University of Vigo, Spain</p>
<p>Maija Heikkil&#xe4;, University of Helsinki, Finland</p>
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<p>*Correspondence: Surya Eldo V. Roza, <email xlink:href="mailto:eroza@marum.de">eroza@marum.de</email>
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<day>15</day>
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<year>2024</year>
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<year>2024</year>
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<volume>11</volume>
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<day>28</day>
<month>08</month>
<year>2023</year>
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<day>22</day>
<month>02</month>
<year>2024</year>
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<copyright-statement>Copyright &#xa9; 2024 Roza, Versteegh, Pospelova and Zonneveld</copyright-statement>
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<p>The increasing threat of anthropogenic environment and climate change amplifies the urgency to investigate the effect of these changes on marine ecosystems. We provide information about the export flux of organic-walled dinoflagellate cysts between 2003 and 2020 in the upwelling ecosystem off Cape Blanc (Mauritania), one of the world&#x2019;s most productive regions. We compared the cyst export flux with variability in environmental parameters, such as wind speed, wind direction, dust emission, sea surface temperature (SST), SST difference between trap location and open ocean (SSTa), and chlorophyll-<italic>a</italic> concentration. This information is valuable to determine the ecological signal of dinoflagellate cysts that could be applied in recent and paleo records. The total export production of dinoflagellate cysts fluctuated between 0 - 1.18 x 10<sup>5</sup> cysts m<sup>-2</sup> d<sup>-1</sup> for the heterotrophs and 0 - 1.06 x 10<sup>4</sup> cysts m<sup>-2</sup> d<sup>-1</sup> for the photo-/mixotrophs. The export productions of both groups were in line with changes in upwelling intensity, which in most years, intensified in spring - summer. Dinoflagellate cyst association was dominated by heterotrophic taxa that formed an average of 94% of the association throughout the sediment trap record. A strong interannual variation in the cyst export fluxes, as well as the association composition was observed in the record. We identified five groups that showed comparable variability in export production with changes in environmental conditions: (1) maximal upwelling; <italic>Echinidinium delicatum/granulatum</italic>, <italic>E. transparantum/zonneveldiae</italic>, <italic>Echinidinium</italic> spp., <italic>Trinovantedinium</italic> spp., and <italic>Protoperidinium latidorsale</italic>, (2) combined maximal upwelling and dust input; <italic>Archaeperidinium</italic> spp., <italic>P. americanum</italic>, <italic>P. stellatum</italic>, and <italic>P. subinerme</italic>, (3) upwelling relaxation; <italic>Gymnodinium</italic> spp. and <italic>L. polyedra</italic>, (4) warm surface waters; <italic>Bitectatodinium spongium</italic> and <italic>Protoceratium reticulatum</italic>, (5) species with no specific relationship to the studied environmental variables; <italic>Brigantedinium</italic> spp., <italic>E. aculeatum</italic>, <italic>Impagidinium aculeatum, P. conicum, P. monospinum</italic>, <italic>Pentapharsodinium dalei</italic>, <italic>and Spiniferites</italic> spp. The sediment trap record documented a gradual shift in the cyst taxa association that co-occurred with the gradual increase of Saharan dust input to the region, notably after 2008. The cyst association contained five photo-/mixotrophic taxa that were formed by potentially toxic dinoflagellates. The latter could cause threats to the socio-economy of coastal communities.</p>
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<title>Introduction</title>
<p>Along with diatoms and coccolithophorids, dinoflagellates are among the major eukaryotic primary producers in marine environments (e.g., <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B23">Dale and Dale, 1992</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B108">Rochon et&#xa0;al., 1999</xref>). Dinoflagellates include species with various feeding strategies: some are photosynthetic, heterotrophic, and many are mixotrophic (e.g., <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B117">Schnepf and Elbr&#xe4;chter, 1992</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B127">Taylor et&#xa0;al., 2008</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B60">Jeong et&#xa0;al., 2010</xref>). The composition of the dinoflagellate community is strongly influenced by the upper water column environmental and oceanographic conditions (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B108">Rochon et&#xa0;al., 1999</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B127">Taylor et&#xa0;al., 2008</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B45">G&#xf3;mez, 2012</xref>). Within the scope of the concern about anthropogenic impact on climate and marine ecosystems, changes in the dinoflagellate community can be used as a key indicator to study the impact of these changes on marine ecosystems (e.g., <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B65">Kremp et&#xa0;al., 2016</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B18">Brosnahan et&#xa0;al., 2020</xref>).</p>
<p>Around 15% of the extant dinoflagellate species are known to produce fossilisable cysts that have a species-specific morphology (e.g., <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B21">Dale, 1976</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B50">Head, 1996</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B22">Dale et&#xa0;al., 2002</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B13">Bravo and Figueroa, 2014</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B76">Luo et&#xa0;al., 2019</xref>). After production in the upper water column, cysts sink to the ocean floor, where they can form a seed bank (e.g., <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B50">Head, 1996</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B78">Matsuoka and Head, 2013</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B13">Bravo and Figueroa, 2014</xref>). Cysts of some species can remain viable in the sediment for up to a century (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B75">Lundholm et&#xa0;al., 2011</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B30">Ellegaard and Ribeiro, 2018</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B26">Delebecq et&#xa0;al., 2020</xref>). Dinoflagellate cysts in sedimentary archives are widely used for environmental, oceanographic, and climatic reconstruction and provide insight into past dinoflagellate bloom dynamics (e.g., <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B78">Matsuoka and Head, 2013</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B143">Zonneveld et&#xa0;al., 2018</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B115">Sala-P&#xe9;rez et&#xa0;al., 2020</xref>). To establish an adequate reconstruction of past environmental conditions, detailed information about cyst-forming dinoflagellates ecology is essential. Several dinoflagellate species can produce biotoxins or can form Harmful Algal Blooms (HAB), which can be a significant threat to marine ecosystems and human health (e.g., <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B9">Balech, 1985</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B3">Amorim et&#xa0;al., 2001</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B35">Figueroa et&#xa0;al., 2018</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B4">Anderson et&#xa0;al., 2021</xref>). To understand the bloom dynamics of dinoflagellate species, including potentially toxic ones, information about the relationship between upper water column conditions and long-term variability in cyst export production of these species is required.</p>
<p>The number of studies on the ecology of dinoflagellate cysts has increased notably over the last decades (e.g., <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B25">de Vernal et&#xa0;al., 2020</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B43">Garc&#xed;a-Moreiras et&#xa0;al., 2021</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B70">Likumahua et&#xa0;al., 2021</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B109">Rodr&#xed;guez&#x2013;Villegas et&#xa0;al., 2022</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B148">Zonneveld et&#xa0;al., 2022b</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B89">Obrezkova et&#xa0;al., 2023</xref>). However, only limited information is available about the seasonal, intra-, and interannual variability in dinoflagellate cyst production and their species composition. A method to investigate these aspects is to study sediment trap records (e.g., <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B23">Dale and Dale, 1992</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B49">Harland and Pudsey, 1999</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B141">Zonneveld and Brummer, 2000</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B42">Fujii and Matsuoka, 2006</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B94">Pitcher and Joyce, 2009</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B97">Pospelova et&#xa0;al., 2010</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B99">Price and Pospelova, 2011</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B15">Bringu&#xe9; et&#xa0;al., 2013</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B98">Pospelova et&#xa0;al., 2018</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B111">Romero et&#xa0;al., 2020</xref>). Previous sediment trap studies showed highly variable cyst production and taxa composition over time. Studying a long time series is essential to obtain a better insight into the interannual variability. Until now, decade-long studies are limited, with only one record from the Cariaco Basin covering 12.5 years (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B16">Bringu&#xe9; et&#xa0;al., 2019</xref>). Here, we enhance the information about the ecology and long-term variability of dinoflagellate cysts by providing a record of cyst export production in the Cape Blanc upwelling region over 18 years.</p>
<p>Cape Blanc in the Canary-Current upwelling system is one of the world&#x2019;s most noteworthy marine ecosystems, forming part of the Eastern Boundary Upwelling Ecosystems (EBUEs). Although covering a small portion of the Earth&#x2019;s ocean surface (ca. 10%), EBEUs are marine diversity hotspots and contribute significantly to marine primary production (e.g., <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B91">Pauly and Christensen, 1995</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B7">Ar&#xed;stegui et&#xa0;al., 2009</xref>). In the study area, primary production is enhanced by permanent upwelling and import of trace elements by Saharan dust (e.g., <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B82">Mittelstaedt, 1983</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B131">van Camp et&#xa0;al., 1991</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B48">Hagen, 2001</xref>). Upwelling on the Atlantic Coast of Mauritania is supported by the coastal wind system, favourable shelf morphology, and surface currents that can transport nutrient-rich water farther offshore (e.g., <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B82">Mittelstaedt, 1983</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B48">Hagen, 2001</xref>). Although upwelling occurs all year long, its strongest intensity is observed during boreal winter (winter and spring seasons) (e.g., <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B66">Lathuili&#xe8;re et&#xa0;al., 2008</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B20">Cropper et&#xa0;al., 2014</xref>). A similar trend is shown by the dust emission from the Sahara into the Cape Blanc oceanic area by the winds at low altitudes (0 - 3km) (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B124">Stuut et&#xa0;al., 2005</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B1">Adams et&#xa0;al., 2012</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B118">Skonieczny et&#xa0;al., 2013</xref>). The strength of upwelling and dust emission in winter and spring is influenced by the Inter Tropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ), which migrates southward to the equator realm during boreal winter and northward during boreal summer (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B83">Mittelstaedt, 1991</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B10">Ben-Ami et&#xa0;al., 2009</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B1">Adams et&#xa0;al., 2012</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B136">Yu et&#xa0;al., 2019</xref>).</p>
<p>Here, we present records of the export flux of organic-walled dinoflagellate cysts in the Cape Blanc upwelling area collected by a sediment trap covering the time span from 2003 until 2020 with temporal resolution between 3.5 and 22 days. The trap was moored close to the position of active upwelling cells at a location where upwelling filaments frequently pass the upper waters. We expanded the five years (2003-2008) dataset of <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B111">Romero et&#xa0;al. (2020)</xref> with data from the following 13 years (<xref ref-type="table" rid="T1">
<bold>Table&#xa0;1</bold>
</xref>). To obtain insight into abiotic factors that influence the export production of the photo-/mixotrophic and heterotrophic cyst species we compared dinoflagellate cyst fluxes and the association composition with wind speed, wind direction, atmospheric dust concentration, sea surface temperature (SST), SST difference between trap location and open ocean (SSTa), and sea surface chlorophyll-<italic>a</italic> concentration (Chl-<italic>a</italic>) at or in the vicinity of the trap location.</p>
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<label>Table&#xa0;1</label>
<caption>
<p>Detailed information of CBeu sediment trap deployments and recoveries during multiple research expeditions off Cape Blanc (Mauritania, NW Africa).</p>
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<th valign="top" align="center">Coordinates</th>
<th valign="top" align="center">GeoB code and cruise</th>
<th valign="top" align="center">Trap depth (m)</th>
<th valign="top" align="center">Ocean bottom depth (m)</th>
<th valign="top" align="center">Number of samples</th>
<th valign="top" align="center">Sample interval (sample size x days)</th>
<th valign="top" align="center">Sampling duration</th>
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<td valign="top" align="center">-/POS 310<break/>9630-2/M 65-2<break/>11404-3/POS 344<break/>11835-2/MSM 04b<break/>12910-2/POS 365-2<break/>13612-1/MSM 11-2<break/>14202-4/POS 396<break/>15703-2/MSM 18-1<break/>16103-1/POS 425<break/>17108-3/POS 445<break/>18006-2/POS 464<break/>19402-1/POS 481<break/>20702-1/POS 495<break/>22101-1/POS 508<break/>22416-1/M 140<break/>23318-1/MSM 79<break/>24104-1/M 165</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">1296<break/>1296<break/>1277<break/>1256<break/>1263<break/>1263<break/>1364<break/>1322<break/>1362<break/>1318<break/>1299<break/>1249<break/>1346<break/>1356<break/>1309<break/>1253<break/>1252</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">2714<break/>2714<break/>2693<break/>2705<break/>2709<break/>2699<break/>2761<break/>2720<break/>2770<break/>2712<break/>2800<break/>2750<break/>2739<break/>2749<break/>2751<break/>2694<break/>2694</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">20<break/>20<break/>20<break/>20<break/>38<break/>40<break/>37<break/>18<break/>16<break/>35<break/>18<break/>20<break/>20<break/>16<break/>20<break/>20<break/>20</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">1x10.5; 19x15.5<break/>2x22; 18x23<break/>20x21.5<break/>1x3.5;19x7.5<break/>2x6.5; 36x9.5<break/>2x3.5; 38x8.5<break/>37x9<break/>17x10; 1x4<break/>15x17; 1x10.5<break/>1x4; 1x7.1; 33x10.75<break/>17x21; 1x20.5<break/>1x12.5; 1x10.9; 18x19.5<break/>1x14; 19x18<break/>1x18.5; 14x21.5; 1x14.9<break/>20x10.5<break/>1x20; 18x22; 1x24<break/>1x21; 19x25</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">05/06/2003 - 05/04/2004<break/>18/04/2004 - 20/07/2005<break/>25/07/2005 - 28/09/2006<break/>28/10/2006 - 23/03/2007<break/>28/03/2007 - 17/03/2008<break/>26/04/2008 - 22/03/2009<break/>01/04/2009 - 28/02/2010<break/>06/03/2010 - 27/08/2010<break/>01/05/2011 - 21/01/2012<break/>26/01/2012 - 26/01/2013<break/>29/01/2013 - 10/02/2014<break/>14/02/2014 - 23/02/2015<break/>27/02/2015 - 18/02/2016<break/>25/02/2016 - 24/01/2017<break/>26/01/2017 - 24/08/2018<break/>02/09/2017 - 16/11/2011<break/>20/11/2018 - 30/03/2020</td>
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</sec>
<sec id="s2" sec-type="materials|methods">
<label>2</label>
<title>Materials and methods</title>
<sec id="s2_1">
<label>2.1</label>
<title>Oceanography of the study area</title>
<p>The current research was carried out in the Canary Current Eastern Boundary Upwelling Ecosystem (CC-EBUEs) located at the eastern border of the North Atlantic Subtropical Gyre (e.g., <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B7">Ar&#xed;stegui et&#xa0;al., 2009</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B20">Cropper et&#xa0;al., 2014</xref>). The region is characterised by permanent upwelling driven by the equatorward wind trade system and frequent input of Saharan dust. Both upwelling and dust fertilize the upper ocean with the input of nutrients and trace elements, resulting in the CC-EBUEs being one of the most productive oceanic regions in the world (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B82">Mittelstaedt, 1983</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B131">van Camp et&#xa0;al., 1991</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B48">Hagen, 2001</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B66">Lathuili&#xe8;re et&#xa0;al., 2008</xref>). The surface currents in this area consist of the Canary Current (CC) and Mauritanian Current (MC) (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="f1">
<bold>Figure&#xa0;1</bold>
</xref>). The CC flows southwards along the northern coast of NW Africa, where it detaches from the shelf between 7&#xb0; - 20&#xb0; N, supplying cool coastal upwelled water to the North Equator Current (NEC) (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B83">Mittelstaedt, 1991</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B2">Alves et&#xa0;al., 2002</xref>). The MC gradually flows northward parallel to the Mauritanian coast towards 20&#xb0; N, transporting warm waters of southern origin northwards (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B82">Mittelstaedt, 1983</xref>). MC intensifies in summer when it is pushed to the shelf by the North Equatorial Counter Current but weakens and is gradually replaced by the CC in late autumn due to increasing trade wind intensity south of 20&#xb0; N (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B137">Zenk et&#xa0;al., 1991</xref>). The movement of both surface currents creates a substantial horizontal shear in the surface layer, forming a convergence zone called the Cape Verde Frontal Zone (CVFZ) (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B137">Zenk et&#xa0;al., 1991</xref>).</p>
<fig id="f1" position="float">
<label>Figure&#xa0;1</label>
<caption>
<p>The location of the CBeu sediment trap (double black circle) and the surface currents in the studied area adapted after Mittelstaedt (1983, 1991) and <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B137">Zenk et&#xa0;al. (1991)</xref>. Blue arrow: relatively cold waters of the Canary Current (CC) and North Equatorial Current (NEC). Red arrows: warm waters of the Mauritanian Current (MC), Cape Verde Current (CVC), and north Cape Verde Current (nCVC). Satellite image depicted from NASA &#x201c;State Of The Ocean (SOTO)&#x201d; showing sea surface temperature during: <bold>(A)</bold> low upwelling intensity in autumn 2020 and; <bold>(B)</bold> high upwelling intensity in spring 2021.</p>
</caption>
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</fig>
<p>Although coastal upwelling off Cape Blanc is a permanent feature, its maximal southward extension and intensity vary depending on the strength and direction of the surface winds (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B66">Lathuili&#xe8;re et&#xa0;al., 2008</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B20">Cropper et&#xa0;al., 2014</xref>). Maximal upwelling intensity is mainly observed in winter and spring, whereas lower intensity is often observed in summer and autumn (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B38">Fischer et&#xa0;al., 2016</xref>). The annual trend of the surface wind trade system variation is orchestrated by the seasonal migration of the Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B83">Mittelstaedt, 1991</xref>).</p>
<p>Upwelled water in the region is sourced from subsurface waters, either from the southward-flowing North Atlantic Central Water (NACW) or the northward-flowing South Atlantic Central Water (SACW) (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B83">Mittelstaedt, 1991</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B81">Meunier et&#xa0;al., 2012</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B90">Olivar et&#xa0;al., 2016</xref>). NACW originates from the North Atlantic carrying warmer, more saline, and nutrient-poorer water compared to SACW (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B116">Sarmiento et&#xa0;al., 2004</xref>). SACW originates from the Southern Ocean, moving north (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B116">Sarmiento et&#xa0;al., 2004</xref>). Upwelled waters north of Cape Blanc mainly consist of NACW, south of Cape Blanc they are mainly formed by SACW. Off Cape Blanc, NACW forms the major source of upwelling waters at times of maximal upwelling intensity, whereas larger amounts of SACW form the upwelled waters at times of low upwelling intensity (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B116">Sarmiento et&#xa0;al., 2004</xref>).</p>
<p>Dust emission also plays an important role in the vast growth of plankton in the region. Sahara, as the world&#x2019;s largest contributor of aeolian mineral dust, influences the studied area by providing essential elements, such as iron and phosphorus (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B64">Kolber et&#xa0;al., 1994</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B61">Jickells et&#xa0;al., 2005</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B55">Huneeus et&#xa0;al., 2011</xref>). The maximum dust emission in this research area occurs in winter, with dust transported by surface winds at altitudes between 0 - 3 km (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B124">Stuut et&#xa0;al., 2005</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B1">Adams et&#xa0;al., 2012</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B118">Skonieczny et&#xa0;al., 2013</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B41">Fomba et&#xa0;al., 2014</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B38">Fischer et&#xa0;al., 2016</xref>). In summer, dust emissions mainly occur at more distal locations (e.g. the Caribbean) due to Saharan Air Layer (SAL), transporting dust at higher altitudes (5 - 7 km) (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B100">Prospero, 1990</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B124">Stuut et&#xa0;al., 2005</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B1">Adams et&#xa0;al., 2012</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B101">Prospero et&#xa0;al., 2014</xref>). The occurrence and intensity of dust storms in the Sahara are strongly influenced by the ITCZ, which controls the aridity of the continent and the direction and strength of the wind as an aerosol-carrier to the ocean (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B10">Ben-Ami et&#xa0;al., 2009</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B1">Adams et&#xa0;al., 2012</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B136">Yu et&#xa0;al., 2019</xref>).</p>
</sec>
<sec id="s2_2">
<label>2.2</label>
<title>Mooring site and sample treatment</title>
<p>Dinoflagellate cysts were collected between June 2003 and March 2020 at the Cape Blanc eutrophic mooring (CBeu) station (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="f1">
<bold>Figure&#xa0;1</bold>
</xref>). The trap was located between 20&#xb0;44.6&#x2019; - 20&#xb0;53.0&#x2019; N and 18&#xb0;41.9&#x2019; - 18&#xb0;45.4&#x2019; W at water depths between 1249 - 1364 m (<xref ref-type="table" rid="T1">
<bold>Table&#xa0;1</bold>
</xref>). Samples were collected by a classical cone-shaped trap with a surface opening area of 0.5 m<sup>2</sup> (Kiel SMT 230/234, Kremling 1998). Particle collection time varied between 3.5 and 22 days. The sampling cups contained mercury chloride (HgCl<sub>2</sub>) to prevent biochemical degradation and alteration of the captured organic material. More details on the sample processing were given in <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B84">Mollenhauer et&#xa0;al. (2015)</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B112">Romero and Fischer (2017)</xref>, and <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B39">Fischer et&#xa0;al. (2019)</xref>. A total of 369 samples were collected and used throughout the 18 years of study.</p>
<p>Upon recovery, the materials were evenly divided into 1/125 fractions for various purposes using a Mc Lane splitter (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B112">Romero and Fischer, 2017</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B39">Fischer et&#xa0;al., 2019</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B111">Romero et&#xa0;al., 2020</xref>). Initially, the larger nektonic plankton, such as the copepods, were manually removed. Samples were filtered with a sieve of 1 mm pore size to isolate the target protists from coarser particles. The samples were transferred into sampling bottles and stored in the dark at the MARUM core repository for further treatment. They were kept at 4&#xb0;C to prevent degradation of the organic content.</p>
</sec>
<sec id="s2_3">
<label>2.3</label>
<title>Dinoflagellate cysts extraction and taxonomic identification</title>
<p>For every sample, a 1/125 fraction of the material was sieved with distilled water over a 100 &#x3bc;m and a 20 &#x3bc;m high-precision metal sieve (Storck-Veco) to remove the remaining poisonous HgCl<sub>2</sub>. The washed samples were ultrasonically treated and sieved successively over a high-precision sieve with a pore size 20 &#x3bc;m. The remaining material was transferred to Eppendorf tubes, diluted to 1&#xa0;mL, and homogenized. A known volume of the well-mixed sample was embedded in glycerin gelatin that was placed on a microscope slide, covered with a cover slip, and isolated from the air with wax (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B151">Zonneveld et&#xa0;al., 2010</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B148">2022b</xref>). Organic dinoflagellate cysts were studied by light microscopy (Zeiss Axiovert, 400x magnification). The dinoflagellate export flux (cyst m<sup>-2</sup> day<sup>-1</sup>) was calculated by dividing the counted specimens with the initial split fraction (1/125), the volume of the counted sample, the trap collection area, and the sampling collecting duration. Taxonomic identification of dinoflagellate cysts and the motile affinity were based on <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B150">Zonneveld and Pospelova (2015)</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B80">Mertens et&#xa0;al. (2020)</xref>, and <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B132">van Nieuwenhove et&#xa0;al. (2020)</xref>. Cysts identified at species level with well-established cyst-theca relationships were referred to by their theca names following the statement of <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B28">Elbr&#xe4;chter et&#xa0;al. (2023)</xref>. For the motile affinity of cysts produced by toxin-producing dinoflagellates, see <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B134">Wall and Dale (1968)</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B1003">Sarjeant (1970)</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B5">Anderson et&#xa0;al. (1988)</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B1001">Dodge (1989)</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B50">Head (1996)</xref>, and <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B29">Ellegaard and Moestrup (1999)</xref>.</p>
</sec>
<sec id="s2_4">
<label>2.4</label>
<title>Environmental parameters</title>
<p>Dinoflagellate cyst fluxes and associations composition were compared to wind speed, wind direction, atmospheric dust concentration, sea surface temperature (SST), SST difference between trap location and open ocean (SSTa), and sea surface chlorophyll-<italic>a</italic> concentration (Chl-<italic>a</italic>). Wind speed (m s<sup>-1</sup>), wind direction, and occurrences of dust input were derived from Nouadhibou Airport (20&#xb0;56&#x2019; N and 17&#xb0;2&#x2019; W) meteorological report, the land-based location near the sediment trap (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="f1">
<bold>Figure&#xa0;1</bold>
</xref>). The decoded synoptic values were calculated to determine vector values of wind strength relative to the measured wind direction according to the equations below (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B46">Grange, 2014</xref>):</p>
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<p>calculated vector wind from east</p>
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<p>SST and Chlorophyll-<italic>a</italic> data were obtained from ERDDAP daily optimum interpolation (OI), AVHRR dataset (Dataset ID ncdcOisst21Agg_Lon PM 180), the database of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) for a 4 km grid at the trap location (20&#xb0; 22.5 &#x2019;N and 18&#xb0; 22.5 &#x2019;W). Sea surface temperature anomaly (SSTa) represents the difference between the daily values of SST at the trap location and 200 km offshore at the same latitude located outside the influence of upwelling and offshore drifting upwelling filaments (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B20">Cropper et&#xa0;al., 2014</xref>). More negative SSTa values represent the presence of colder waters at the trap site, which in the region is caused by the presence of upwelled water, as such SSTa represents the upwelling intensity. The daily values of all environmental parameters were calculated as lag and average of 10 days for the region&#x2019;s estimated sinking duration of the dinoflagellate cyst in the water column (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B36">Fischer and Karaka&#x15f;, 2009</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B57">Iversen and Ploug, 2013</xref>).</p>
</sec>
<sec id="s2_5">
<label>2.5</label>
<title>Statistical analyses</title>
<p>Dinoflagellate cysts and environmental parameter data were analysed by multivariate analyses that can independently explain the relationship between multiple variables, using the software package Canoco-5 (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B121">&#x160;milauer and Lep&#x161;, 2014</xref>). For the analyses, species occurring only sporadically in low numbers in the dataset were excluded from this analysis (<xref ref-type="table" rid="T2">
<bold>Tables&#xa0;2</bold>
</xref>, <xref ref-type="table" rid="T3">
<bold>3</bold>
</xref>). Multivariate analyses were performed on the relative abundances by the excluding samples that contained less than 100 specimens. Detrended Correspondence Analysis (DCA) was carried out to analyse the length of the gradient to verify the species response curves in the dataset (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B128">ter Braak and Prentice, 1988</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B129">ter Braak and &#x160;milauer, 2002</xref>). Additionally, a Canonical Correspondence Analysis (CCA) was used to determine the relationship between the cyst distribution patterns and the above-described environmental parameters.</p>
<table-wrap id="T2" position="float">
<label>Table&#xa0;2</label>
<caption>
<p>The list of identified heterotrophic dinoflagellate cyst (paleontological) taxa in the studied area corresponds to their respective motile cell (biological) names and grouping of cysts used in statistical analysis.</p>
</caption>
<table frame="hsides">
<thead>
<tr>
<th valign="top" align="center">Cyst name</th>
<th valign="top" align="center">Motile name</th>
<th valign="top" align="center">Taxon used in multivariate analysis</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td valign="top" align="left">
<italic>Brigantedinium</italic> spp. Reid,1977 ex Lentin and<break/>Williams, 1993<break/>Cyst of <italic>Archaeperidinium constrictum</italic> Mertens<break/>et al., 2015<break/>Cyst of <italic>Archaeperidinium minutum</italic> Yamaguchi<break/>et al., 2011<break/>Cyst of <italic>Archaeperidinium saanichi</italic> Mertens<break/>et al., 2012<break/>Cyst of <italic>Polykrikos kofoidii</italic> Chatton, 1914<break/>Cyst of <italic>Polykrikos schwartzii</italic> B&#xfc;tschli, 1873<break/>Cyst of <italic>Polykrikos quadratus</italic> Kunz-Pirrung, 1998 -<break/>informally described<break/>Cyst of <italic>Protoperidinium americanum</italic> (Gran and<break/>Braarud, 1935) Balech, 1974<break/>Cyst of <italic>Protoperidinium monospinum</italic> (Paulsen,<break/>1907) Zonneveld and Dale, 1984<break/>Cysts of <italic>Protoperidinium stellatum</italic> (Wall in Wall<break/>and Dale, 1968) Head in <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B108">Rochon et&#xa0;al., 1999</xref>
<break/>
<italic>Echinidinium aculeatum</italic> Zonneveld 1997 ex Mertens<break/>et al., 2020<break/>
<italic>Echinidinium delicatum</italic> Zonneveld 1997 ex Head,<break/>2003<break/>
<italic>Echinidinium granulatum</italic> Zonneveld 1997 ex Head,<break/>2001<break/>
<italic>Echinidinium transparantum</italic> Zonneveld 1997 ex<break/>
<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B80">Mertens et&#xa0;al., 2020</xref>
<break/>
<italic>Echinidinium zonneveldiae</italic> <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B51">Head, 2003</xref>
<break/>Unidentified spiny brown cysts<break/>
<italic>Lejeunecysta paratenella</italic> Benedek, 1972<break/>
<italic>Quinquecuspis concretum</italic> (Reid, 1977) Harland,<break/>1977<break/>
<italic>Selenopemphix nephroides</italic> Benedek, 1972<break/>
<break/>
<italic>Selenopemphix quanta</italic> (Bradford, 1975) Matsuoka,<break/>1985<break/>
<italic>Trinovantedinium applanatum</italic> (Bradford, 1977)<break/>Bujak and Davies, 1983<break/>
<italic>Trinovantedinium pallidifulvum</italic> Mertens et&#xa0;al., 2017<break/>
<italic>Votadinium calvum</italic> (Reid, 1977)<break/>
<break/>Cyst of <italic>Diplopelta symmetrica</italic> Dale et&#xa0;al., 1993<break/>Cyst of <italic>Dubridinium</italic> sp. Reid, 1977<break/>Cyst of <italic>Islandinium</italic> spp. Head et&#xa0;al., 2001 <break/>emend. Potvin et&#xa0;al., 2013<break/>Cyst of <italic>Polykrikos hartmanii</italic> (Matsuoka and Fukuyo,<break/>1986) Radi et&#xa0;al., 2013<break/>Cruciform cyst<break/>Cyst type A<break/>Cyst type B<break/>
<italic>Echinidinium bispiniformum</italic> Zonneveld 1997 ex<break/>
<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B80">Mertens et&#xa0;al., 2020</xref>
<break/>
<italic>Echinidinium karaense</italic> Head et&#xa0;al., 2001<break/>
<italic>Leipokatium invisitatum</italic> (Bradford, 1975)<break/>
<italic>Lejeunecysta oliva</italic> (Bradford, 1975) Turon and<break/>Londeix, 1988<break/>
<italic>Lejeunecysta sabrinum</italic> (Reid, 1977) Bujak,<break/>1984<break/>
<italic>Selenopemphix undulata</italic> Verleye et&#xa0;al., 2011<break/>Unidentified peridinioid-form<break/>
<italic>Votadinium spinosum</italic> (Reid, 1977)<break/>
<break/>
<italic>Xandarodinium xanthum</italic> (Reid, 1977)</td>
<td valign="top" align="left">
<italic>Protoperidinium</italic> sp.<break/>
<break/>
<italic>Archaeperidinium constrictum</italic> Mertens<break/>et al., 2015<break/>
<italic>Archaeperidinium minutum</italic> Yamaguchi<break/>et al., 2011<break/>
<italic>Archaeperidinium saanichi</italic> Mertens<break/>et al., 2012<break/>
<italic>Polykrikos kofoidii</italic> Chatton, 1914<break/>
<italic>Polykrikos schwartzii</italic> B&#xfc;tschli, 1873<break/>
<italic>Polykrikos quadratus</italic> Kunz-Pirrung, 1998 -<break/>informally described<break/>
<italic>Protoperidinium americanum</italic> (Gran and<break/>Braarud, 1935) Balech, 1974<break/>
<italic>Protoperidinium monospinum</italic> (Paulsen,<break/>1907) Zonneveld and Dale, 1984<break/>
<italic>Protoperidinium stellatum</italic> (Wall in Wall<break/>and Dale, 1968) Head in <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B108">Rochon et&#xa0;al., 1999</xref>
<break/>Unknown<break/>
<break/>Unknown<break/>
<break/>Unknown<break/>
<break/>Unknown<break/>
<break/>Unknown<break/>Unknown<break/>
<italic>Protoperidinium</italic> sp.<break/>
<italic>Protoperidinium leonis</italic> Reid, 1977<break/>
<break/>
<italic>Protoperidinium subinerme</italic> (Paulsen, 1904)<break/>Loeblich III, 1970<break/>
<italic>Protoperidinium conicum</italic> (Gran, 1900) Balech,<break/>1974<break/>
<italic>Protoperidinium shanghaiense</italic> Gu et&#xa0;al., 2015<break/>
<break/>
<italic>Protoperidinium lousianense</italic> Mertens et&#xa0;al., 2017<break/>
<italic>Protoperidinium latidorsale</italic> (Dangeard, 1927)<break/>Balech, 1974<break/>
<italic>Diplopelta symmetrica</italic> Dale et&#xa0;al., 1993<break/>
<italic>Preperidinium</italic> sp.?<break/>
<italic>Islandinium</italic> spp. Head et&#xa0;al.,<break/>2001 emend. Potvin et&#xa0;al., 2013<break/>
<italic>Polykrikos hartmanii</italic> (Matsuoka and Fukuyo,<break/>1986) Radi et&#xa0;al., 2013<break/>Unknown<break/>Unknown<break/>Unknown<break/>Unknown<break/>
<break/>Unknown<break/>Unknown<break/>
<italic>Protoperidinium</italic> sp.<break/>
<break/>
<italic>Protoperidinium leonis</italic>? (Pavillard, 1916)<break/>Balech, 1974<break/>Unknown<break/>
<italic>Protoperidinium</italic> sp.?<break/>
<italic>Protoperidinium claudicans</italic> (Paulsen, 1907)<break/>Balech, 1974<break/>
<italic>Protoperidinium divaricatum</italic> (Meunir, 1919)<break/>Parke and Dodge, 1976</td>
<td valign="top" align="left">
<italic>Brigantedinium</italic> spp.<break/>
<break/>
<italic>Archaeperidinium</italic> spp.<break/>
<break/>
<break/>
<break/>
<break/>
<break/>
<italic>Polykrikos</italic> spp.<break/>
<break/>
<break/>
<break/>
<italic>P. americanum</italic>
<break/>
<break/>
<italic>P. monospinum</italic>
<break/>
<break/>
<italic>P. stellatum</italic>
<break/>
<break/>
<italic>E. aculeatum</italic>
<break/>
<break/>
<italic>E. delicatum/granulatum</italic>
<break/>
<break/>
<break/>
<break/>
<italic>E. transparantum/zonneveldiae</italic>
<break/>
<break/>
<break/>
<italic>Echinidinium</italic> spp.<break/>
<italic>L. paratenella</italic>
<break/>
<italic>P. leonis</italic>
<break/>
<break/>
<italic>P. subinerme</italic>
<break/>
<break/>
<italic>P. conicum</italic>
<break/>
<break/>
<italic>Trinovantedinium</italic> spp.<break/>
<break/>
<break/>
<italic>P. latidorsale</italic>
<break/>
<break/>Excluded from the analysis</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</table-wrap>
<table-wrap id="T3" position="float">
<label>Table&#xa0;3</label>
<caption>
<p>The list of identified photo-/mixotrophic dinoflagellate cysts (paleontological) taxa in the studied area corresponds to their respective motile cell (biological) names and grouping of cysts used in statistical analysis.</p>
</caption>
<table frame="hsides">
<thead>
<tr>
<th valign="top" align="center">Cyst name</th>
<th valign="top" align="center">Motile name</th>
<th valign="top" align="center">Taxon used in multivariate analysis</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td valign="top" align="left">
<italic>Bitectatodinium spongium</italic> (Zonneveld, 1997) Zonneveld and<break/>Jurkschat, 1999<break/>Cyst of <italic>Gymnodinium nolleri</italic> Ellegard and Moestrup, 1999<break/>Cyst of <italic>Gymnodinium microreticulatum</italic> Bolch, Negri and<break/>Hallegraef, 1999<break/>Cyst of <italic>Pentapharsodinium dalei</italic> Indelicato and Loeblich III,<break/>1986<break/>
<italic>Impagidinium aculeatum</italic> (Wall 1967) Lentin and Williams,<break/>1981<break/>
<italic>Impagidinium paradoxum</italic> (Wall 1967) Stover and Evitt, 1978<break/>
<italic>Impagidinium patulum</italic> (Wall 1967) Stover and Evitt, 1978<break/>
<italic>Impagidinium plicatum</italic> Versteegh and Zevenboom, 1995<break/>
<italic>Impagidinium sphaericum</italic> (Wall 1967) Lentin and Williams,<break/>1981<break/>
<italic>Impagidinium strialatum</italic> (Wall 1967) Stover and Evitt, 1978<break/>
<italic>Impagidinium variaseptum</italic> Marret and de Vernal, 1997<break/>Unidentified <italic>Impagidinium</italic>
<break/>
<italic>Lingulodinium machaerophorum</italic> (Deflandre and Cookson,<break/>1955) Wall, 1967<break/>
<italic>Operculodinium centrocarpum s</italic>ensu Wall and Dale, 1966<break/>
<break/>
<italic>Operculodinium israelianum</italic> (Rossignol,1962) Wall, 1967<break/>
<italic>Spiniferites membranaceus</italic> (Rossignol,1964) <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B1003">Sarjeant, 1970</xref>
<break/>
<break/>
<italic>Spiniferites mirabilis</italic> (Rossignol,1964) <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B1003">Sarjeant, 1970</xref>
<break/>
<break/>
<italic>Spiniferites pachydermus</italic> (Rossignol,1964) Reid, 1974<break/>
<italic>Spiniferites ramosus</italic> (Ehrenberg,1838) Mantell, 1854<break/>Unidentified <italic>Spiniferites</italic>
<break/>
<italic>Ataxiodinium choane</italic> Reid, 1974<break/>
<italic>Biecheleria</italic> sp.<break/>
<italic>Dalella chathamensis</italic> McMinn and Sun, 1994<break/>
<italic>Nematosphaeropsis labyrinthus</italic> (Ostenfeld, 1903) Reid, 1974<break/>
<italic>Polysphaeridium zoharyi</italic> (Rossignol,1962) Bujak, 1980<break/>
<italic>Pyxidinopsis psilata</italic> Wall and Dale, 1973<break/>
<italic>Pyxidinopsis reticulata</italic> McMinn and Sun, 1994 emend. Marret<break/>and de Vernal, 1997<break/>
<italic>Tectatodinium pellitum</italic> Wall, 1967 emend. Head, 1994</td>
<td valign="top" align="left">Unknown<break/>
<break/>
<italic>Gymnodinium nolleri</italic> Ellegard and Moestrup, 1999<break/>
<italic>Gymnodinium microreticulatum</italic> Bolch, Negri and<break/>Hallegraef, 1999<break/>
<italic>Pentapharsodinium dalei</italic> Indelicato and Loeblich<break/>III, 1986<break/>
<italic>Gonyaulax</italic> sp.<break/>
<break/>
<italic>Gonyaulax</italic> sp.<break/>
<italic>Gonyaulax</italic> sp.<break/>
<italic>Gonyaulax</italic> sp.<break/>
<italic>Gonyaulax</italic> sp.<break/>
<break/>
<italic>Gonyaulax</italic> sp.<break/>
<italic>Gonyaulax bohaiensis</italic> Gu et&#xa0;al., 2022<break/>
<italic>Gonyaulax</italic> sp.<break/>
<italic>Lingulodinium polyedra</italic> (Stein, 1883) <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B1001">Dodge, 1989</xref>
<break/>
<break/>
<italic>Protoceratium reticulatum</italic> (Clapar&#xe8;de and<break/>Lachmann, 1859) B&#xfc;tschli, 1885<break/>
<italic>Protoceratium</italic> sp.?<break/>
<italic>Gonyaulax membranacea</italic> (Rossignol,1964)<break/>Ellegard et&#xa0;al., 2003<break/>
<italic>Gonyaulax spinifera</italic> (Clapar&#xe8;de and<break/>Lachmann, 1859)<break/>
<italic>Gonyaulax ellegaardiae</italic> Mertens et&#xa0;al., 2015<break/>
<italic>Gonyaulax spinifera</italic> complex<break/>
<italic>Gonyaulax</italic> sp.<break/>
<italic>Gonyaulax</italic> spinifera complex<break/>Unknown<break/>Unknown<break/>
<italic>Gonyaulax</italic> sp.<break/>
<italic>Pyrodinium bahamense</italic> Plate, 1906<break/>Unknown<break/>Unknown<break/>
<break/>Unknown</td>
<td valign="top" align="left">
<italic>B. spongium</italic>
<break/>
<break/>
<italic>Gymnodinium</italic> spp.<break/>
<break/>
<break/>
<italic>P. dalei</italic>
<break/>
<break/>
<italic>I. aculeatum</italic>
<break/>
<break/>
<italic>Impagidinium</italic> spp.<break/>
<break/>
<break/>
<break/>
<break/>
<break/>
<break/>
<break/>
<italic>L. polyedra</italic>
<break/>
<break/>
<italic>P. reticulatum</italic>
<break/>
<break/>
<italic>O. israelianum</italic>
<break/>
<italic>Spiniferites</italic> spp.<break/>
<break/>
<break/>
<break/>
<break/>
<break/>
<break/>Excluded from the analysis</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</table-wrap>
</sec>
</sec>
<sec id="s3" sec-type="results">
<label>3</label>
<title>Results</title>
<sec id="s3_1">
<label>3.1</label>
<title>Dinoflagellate cysts flux</title>
<p>Throughout 18 years, the cyst export flux of heterotrophic dinoflagellates largely exceeded the photo-/mixotrophic dinoflagellates. On average, heterotrophic taxa formed ca. 94% of the total cyst record. The export flux of heterotrophic dinoflagellate cysts showed large interannual fluctuations with minimal fluxes occurring in spring - summer 2018 when no export flux was observed and maximal flux in winter 2011/2012 (1.18 x 10<sup>5</sup> cysts m<sup>-2</sup> d<sup>-1</sup>) (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="f2">
<bold>Figure&#xa0;2B</bold>
</xref>). A malfunctioning of the sediment trap led to these minimal fluxes, but the samples could still be recovered from the cups. Over the years, the flux showed a trend from relatively low values between 2003 and 2005 to higher values between 2006 &#x2013; 2013 and declined again after 2014. Exceptions were noted in 2009 and 2010, characterised by lower export fluxes than in the previous and later years. Throughout the years, the flux showed a more or less regular seasonal pattern, with maximal flux occurring in spring at times of maximal wind speed (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="f2">
<bold>Figure&#xa0;2A</bold>
</xref>). The duration of the high flux period varied; sometimes, it started in late winter or extended to summer. In other years, it was restricted to spring. Few exceptions occurred in 2005 and 2018, where the maximal fluxes occurred in autumn.</p>
<fig id="f2" position="float">
<label>Figure&#xa0;2</label>
<caption>
<p>Correlation of environmental parameters with the total export fluxes of organic-walled dinoflagellate cysts based on 18 years CBeu sediment trap study: <bold>(A)</bold> daily wind speed in 10-running points average (the background grey line connects daily data points and the thicker black line represents the 10-point mean); <bold>(B)</bold> heterotrophic dinoflagellate cysts (cysts m<sup>-2</sup> d<sup>-1</sup>, dark yellow bars); <bold>(C)</bold> photo-/mixotrophic dinoflagellate cysts (cysts m<sup>-2</sup> d<sup>-1</sup>, blue bars). <bold>(D)</bold> daily visibility distance indicating dust input in 10-running points average (the background grey line connects the daily data points and the thicker black line represents the 10-point mean). The boxes in the lower panels refer to seasons (W, winter; Sp, spring; S, summer; A, autumn). Grey shades indicate maximal upwelling intensity, brown shades indicate maximum dust input, and the horizontal dashed lines indicate calendar year separation.</p>
</caption>
<graphic mimetype="image" mime-subtype="tiff" xlink:href="fmars-11-1284425-g002.tif"/>
</fig>
<p>The export flux of cysts produced by photo-/mixotrophic dinoflagellates also showed strong interannual variability varying from no observed export flux in spring - summer 2018 to a maximal flux of 1.06 x 10<sup>4</sup> cysts m<sup>-2</sup> d<sup>-1</sup> in winter 2012/2013 (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="f2">
<bold>Figure&#xa0;2C</bold>
</xref>). The flux was relatively low in 2003 and increased steadily until 2008. From 2008 on, the photo-/mixotrophic cyst export flux decreased except for 2013, 2015, and 2016, when high export fluxes occurred. In contrast to the heterotrophic taxa, the cyst fluxes of photo-/mixotrophic dinoflagellates did not show a clear seasonal pattern. In several years, such as in 2008, 2009, 2016, and 2017, the highest fluxes occurred in spring - summer with intervals of intensified wind speed. In 2004 and 2007, the highest export fluxes occurred during weakened wind speed. In 2013 and 2015, the maximal export flux of cysts of photo/mixotrophic species occurred in winter during maximal Saharan dust input into the North Atlantic (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="f2">
<bold>Figure&#xa0;2D</bold>
</xref>).</p>
</sec>
<sec id="s3_2">
<label>3.2</label>
<title>Association of dinoflagellates cysts</title>
<p>In the analysed samples, 67 cyst taxa were identified, of which 39 belonged to heterotrophic species (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="f3">
<bold>Figure&#xa0;3A&#x2013;I</bold>
</xref>). The most dominant taxon was <italic>Brigantedinium</italic> spp., accounting for ca. 60% of the cyst association (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="f3">
<bold>Figure&#xa0;3A</bold>
</xref>). This genus was present in the majority of samples throughout the time series, even when cyst recovery was extremely low. The annual and seasonal export flux of <italic>Brigantedinium</italic> spp. followed the trend of the total cyst export flux. Species of <italic>Echinidinium</italic> were the second most abundant, forming an average of 15% of the association (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="f3">
<bold>Figures&#xa0;3G, H</bold>
</xref>). Of this genus, <italic>Echinidinium transparantum/zonneveldiae</italic> was the most abundant species (5.9%), followed by <italic>E. aculeatum</italic> (4.3%), and <italic>E. delicatum/granulatum</italic> (4.3%). The relative abundance of <italic>Echinidinium</italic> species increased at times of increased total cyst export flux that usually occurred in spring. However, the <italic>Echinidinium</italic> association composition varied between the years (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="f4">
<bold>Figure&#xa0;4A</bold>
</xref>). <italic>E. aculeatum</italic> dominated in spring-summer 2009 and 2016, <italic>E. delicatum/granulatum</italic> was abundant in spring 2011 and 2019, and spring-summer 2012 and 2017. <italic>E. transparantum/zonneveldiae</italic> dominated in spring-summer 2010 and from 2013 to 2015.</p>
<fig id="f3" position="float">
<label>Figure&#xa0;3</label>
<caption>
<p>Some of the identified dinoflagellate cysts taxa from the CBeu trap. Heterotrophic taxa: <bold>(A)</bold> <italic>Brigantedinium spp.</italic>, <bold>(B)</bold> <italic>Archaeperidinium constrictum</italic> (uploaded to modern dinocyst key by Zonneveld and Pospelova (2015) online catalogue), <bold>(C)</bold> <italic>Protoperidinium americanum</italic>, <bold>(D)</bold> <italic>P. monospinium</italic>, <bold>(E)</bold> <italic>P. stellatum</italic>, <bold>(F)</bold> <italic>Polykrikos quadratus</italic>, <bold>(G)</bold> <italic>Echinidinium granulatum</italic>, <bold>(H)</bold> <italic>E. zonneveldiae</italic>, and <bold>(I)</bold> <italic>P. subinerme</italic>. Photo-/mixotrophic taxa: <bold>(J)</bold> <italic>Impagidinium aculeatum</italic>, <bold>(K)</bold> <italic>Gymnodinium spp.</italic>, <bold>(L)</bold> <italic>Lingulodinium polyedra</italic>, <bold>(M)</bold> <italic>Protoceratium reticulatum</italic>, <bold>(N)</bold> <italic>Pyrodinium bahamense</italic>, and <bold>(O)</bold> <italic>Spiniferites mirabilis</italic>.</p>
</caption>
<graphic mimetype="image" mime-subtype="tiff" xlink:href="fmars-11-1284425-g003.tif"/>
</fig>
<fig id="f4" position="float">
<label>Figure&#xa0;4</label>
<caption>
<p>Relative abundance of dinoflagellate cyst species: <bold>(A)</bold> heterotrophic dinoflagellate taxa; <bold>(B)</bold> photo-/mixotrophic dinoflagellate taxa. Two boxes below the graphs show the name of important species found in Cape Blanc, one colour indicates one taxon. The gradation of colours indicates several species in the same genus/group. The squares in the lower panels refer to seasons (W, winter; Sp, spring; S, summer; A, autumn). Brown shades indicate maximal upwelling intensity and the vertical dashed lines indicate calendar year separation.</p>
</caption>
<graphic mimetype="image" mime-subtype="tiff" xlink:href="fmars-11-1284425-g004.tif"/>
</fig>
<p>Other cyst taxa observed in most samples were <italic>Protoperidinium stellatum</italic> (2.7%), <italic>P. americanum</italic> (2.2%), <italic>Archaeperidinium</italic> spp. (2.2%), and <italic>P. monospinum</italic> (2.2%) (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="f3">
<bold>Figures&#xa0;3B&#x2013;E</bold>
</xref>). The maximal relative abundance of these species varied strongly over the years (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="f4">
<bold>Figure&#xa0;4A</bold>
</xref>). <italic>P. stellatum</italic> had the highest relative abundance in summer 2003, winter 2003/2004, autumn 2005, and spring to autumn 2008. <italic>Archaeperidinium</italic> spp. peaked once in spring-summer 2006, while <italic>P. monospinum</italic> peaked in summer 2007. <italic>P. americanum</italic> had the highest relative abundance in autumn 2003, winter 2003/2004, and spring 2006. The irregular abundance of these species documented a strong inter-annual variability of the cyst association in the studied area.</p>
<p>Cysts of photo-/mixotrophic dinoflagellates formed only about 6.8% on average of the total association (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="f3">
<bold>Figures&#xa0;3J&#x2013;O</bold>
</xref>). Of this group, <italic>Pentapharsodinium dalei</italic> showed the highest relative abundance (2.1%), followed by <italic>Gymnodinium</italic> spp. (1.3%). Prior to 2008, <italic>Gymnodinium</italic> spp. was the association most abundant photo/mixotrophic taxon. From then on, <italic>P. dalei</italic> showed an increased relative abundance and sustained its abundance until the end of the time series in 2020. P<italic>. dalei</italic> were observed almost every year with maximal relative abundances in spring - summer. Relative abundance of <italic>Gymnodinium</italic> spp. peaked in 2003 and from 2005 to 2007, mainly in autumn &#x2013; winter association. Other photo-/mixotrophic cyst species that were commonly observed were <italic>Lingulodinium polyedra</italic> (<italic>Lingulodinium machaerophorum</italic>) (0.8%)<italic>, Protoceratium reticulatum</italic> (<italic>Operculodinium centrocarpum</italic>) (0.5%), species of <italic>Spiniferites</italic> (0.3%), <italic>Bitectatodinium spongium</italic> (0.3%), and <italic>Impagidinium aculeatum</italic> (0.2%). <italic>L. polyedra</italic> was observed in higher relative abundances in autumn - winter 2003. <italic>B. spongium</italic> had high relative abundances from autumn 2013 until spring 2014, winter 2015, and autumn 2017. High relative abundances of <italic>Spiniferites</italic> species were observed in spring 2004, winter 2006/2007, spring 2008, and autumn - winter 2009. P<italic>. reticulatum</italic>, <italic>I. aculeatum</italic>, and the other photo-/mixotrophic dinoflagellate taxa were sporadically present throughout the 18 years record and formed a minor part of the total association (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="f4">
<bold>Figure&#xa0;4B</bold>
</xref>).</p>
</sec>
<sec id="s3_3">
<label>3.3</label>
<title>Multivariate analyses</title>
<p>The DCA ordination revealed a gradient length of 2.2, indicating a unimodal structure of the dataset. Therefore, CCA was the preferred method to study the relationship between cyst taxa and studied environmental parameters. The CCA analysis indicated that the wind system was the dominant factors influencing cyst export production. Wind speed explained 23.5% of the total variance, followed by Chl-<italic>a</italic> (22.8%), wind direction (18.8%), dust input (15.6%), and SSTa (9.2%). The least prominent parameter (SST) corresponded to 8.4% of the variance (<xref ref-type="table" rid="T4">
<bold>Table&#xa0;4</bold>
</xref>). The CCA analysis identified five cyst groups based on similar taxa responses to the analysed environmental parameters (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="f5">
<bold>Figure&#xa0;5</bold>
</xref>).</p>
<table-wrap id="T4" position="float">
<label>Table&#xa0;4</label>
<caption>
<p>Result values of detrended correspondence analysis (DCA) and canonical correspondence analysis (CCA) executed with the software package Canoco 5 (ter Braak and &#x160;milauer, 2012; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B121">&#x160;milauer and Lep&#x161;, 2014</xref>).</p>
</caption>
<table frame="hsides">
<thead>
<tr>
<th valign="top" align="center">Analysis</th>
<th valign="top" align="center">Method</th>
<th valign="top" align="center">Length of gradient</th>
<th valign="top" align="center">Eigenvalue axis 1</th>
<th valign="top" align="center">Eigenvalue axis 2</th>
<th valign="top" align="center">Eigenvalue axis 3</th>
<th valign="top" align="center">Eigenvalue axis 4</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td valign="top" align="center">1</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">DCA</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">2.2</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">0.548</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">0.089</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">0.079</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">0.056</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top" align="center">2</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">CCA</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">2.1</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">0.035</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">0.023</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">0.015</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">0.009</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<table-wrap-foot>
<fn>
<p>Length of gradient determined if the model response was linear (&lt;2.0) or unimodal (&#x2265;2.0). Eigenvalues indicated the rate explained variance of each axis.</p>
</fn>
</table-wrap-foot>
</table-wrap>
<fig id="f5" position="float">
<label>Figure&#xa0;5</label>
<caption>
<p>Result of Canonical Correspondence Analysis (CCA) of dinoflagellate cyst species at the CBeu trap from June 2003 and March 2020. Ordination assigned five species groups: (1) upwelling indicators, (2) upwelling and dust indicators, (3) upwelling relaxation indicators, (4) eutrophic and warm water indicators, and (5) species with no specific indication.</p>
</caption>
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</fig>
<p>Group 1: <italic>Echinidinium</italic> spp., <italic>Echinidinium delicatum/granulatum</italic>, <italic>Echinidinium transparantum</italic>/<italic>zonneveldiae</italic>, <italic>Trinovantedinium</italic> spp., and <italic>Protoperidinium latidorsale</italic> (<italic>Votadinium calvum</italic>). These taxa were ordinated on the positive side of the wind speed and SSTa and the negative side of the wind direction (northeastern origin).</p>
<p>Group 2: <italic>Archaeperidinium</italic> spp., <italic>Lejeunecysta paratenella</italic>, <italic>Polykrikos</italic> spp., <italic>Protoperidinium americanum</italic>, <italic>Protoperidinium leonis</italic> (<italic>Quinquecuspis concretum</italic>), <italic>Protoperidinium subinerme</italic> (<italic>Selenopemphix nephroides</italic>), and <italic>Protoperidinium stellatum</italic> as well as the two photo-/mixotrophic taxa; <italic>Impagidinium</italic> spp. and <italic>Operculodinium israelianum</italic>. These taxa were ordinated on the positive side of the dust input and Chl-<italic>a</italic> concentration, the intermediate value of wind direction, and the negative side of the SST.</p>
<p>Group 3: <italic>Gymnodinium</italic> spp. and <italic>Lingulodinium polyedra</italic> were ordinated on the most positive side of the wind direction and negative side of the wind speed and SSTa.</p>
<p>Group 4: <italic>Bitectatodinium spongium</italic> and <italic>Protoceratium reticulatum</italic>. Taxa of this group were ordinated on high SST values, intermediate wind direction values, and negative side of Chl-<italic>a</italic> and dust input.</p>
<p>Group 5: <italic>Brigantedinium</italic> spp.<italic>, Echinidinium aculeatum</italic>, <italic>Protoperidinium monospinum</italic>, and <italic>Protoperidinium conicum</italic> (<italic>Selenopemphix quanta</italic>), as well as three photo-/mixotrophic taxa (<italic>Pentapharsodinium dalei</italic>, <italic>Impagidinium aculeatum</italic>, and <italic>Spiniferites</italic> spp.). These taxa were ordinated on intermediate values of all studied environmental parameters.</p>
</sec>
</sec>
<sec id="s4" sec-type="discussion">
<label>4</label>
<title>Discussion</title>
<sec id="s4_1">
<label>4.1</label>
<title>Physical condition of the upper water column</title>
<p>In the studied area, coastal upwelling was driven by surface winds from the north and northeast with intensities that were strongly related to the wind speed (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B20">Cropper et&#xa0;al., 2014</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B38">Fischer et&#xa0;al., 2016</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B111">Romero et&#xa0;al., 2020</xref>) (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="f6">
<bold>Figures&#xa0;6C, D</bold>
</xref>). Coastal upwelling transported colder, nutrient-rich intermediate water to the upper water column and successively carried them offshore toward the sediment trap area via large filaments (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B37">Fischer et&#xa0;al., 2009</xref>). When these filaments crossed the trap mooring site, local surface water temperatures decreased compared to the surrounding offshore waters, causing enhanced sea surface temperature anomaly (SSTa) (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="f6">
<bold>Figures&#xa0;6A, B</bold>
</xref>). In contrast, at times of a weakened upwelling intensity (upwelling relaxation), surface waters at the trap were unaffected by upwelling filaments, resulting in the SST of the trap location being similar to that of more offshore waters (low SSTa). We observed enhanced crossing of upwelling filaments at the trap sites, mainly in spring until early summer. The upwelling relaxation at the location mainly occurred in late summer and autumn. Besides upwelling fertilization of the upper water, additional micronutrients were carried into this region by aerosol dust from the Sahara (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B61">Jickells et&#xa0;al., 2005</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B118">Skonieczny et&#xa0;al., 2013</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B38">Fischer et&#xa0;al., 2016</xref>). Throughout the record, we observed enhanced dust input mainly in winter to early spring in this studied area, coinciding with the surface winds from the northeast. From 2008, the maximum dust emission increased in winter and summer (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="f6">
<bold>Figure&#xa0;6H</bold>
</xref>).</p>
</sec>
<sec id="s4_2">
<label>4.2</label>
<title>Dinoflagellates cyst export fluxes</title>
<p>The strong dominance of heterotrophic taxa in the organic-walled dinoflagellate cyst export flux was also reported from sediment trap observations in other upwelling ecosystems such as Somali Basin (Northwest Arabian Sea), Benguela (Southwest Africa), NE Pacific, and Cariaco Basin (Caribbean Sea) (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B141">Zonneveld and Brummer, 2000</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B94">Pitcher and Joyce, 2009</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B97">Pospelova et&#xa0;al., 2010</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B15">Bringu&#xe9; et&#xa0;al., 2013</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B17">2018</xref> and <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B16">2019</xref>). In all of these regions, upwelled nutrient-rich waters stimulated phytoplankton production in surface waters, which in turn formed the food source of heterotrophic dinoflagellates (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B58">Jacobson and Anderson, 1986</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B59">Jeong, 1999</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B92">Pitcher et&#xa0;al., 2010</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B6">Anderson et&#xa0;al., 2018</xref>). We also observed that the export fluxes of dinoflagellate cysts in our studied area were in the same range as those in the other upwelling ecosystems, for instance, the Arabian Sea (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B141">Zonneveld and Brummer, 2000</xref>), off Southern California (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B15">Bringu&#xe9; et&#xa0;al., 2013</xref>) and the Caribbean Sea (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B17">Bringu&#xe9; et&#xa0;al., 2018</xref> and <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B16">2019</xref>). An exception was formed by the Benguela upwelling region, where the cyst fluxes were assumed to be a factor of 100 higher (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B94">Pitcher and Joyce, 2009</xref>). The latter might be a calculation error in the study of Pitcher and Joyce as compared to all other studies from the upwelling area; not only the maximal flux but also the variation in fluxes between upwelling and upwelling relaxation phases was similar to our study even though the temporal occurrence and duration of active or strong upwelling varied across different upwelling regions.</p>
<p>To compare the dinoflagellate cyst data with environmental parameters in the upper water column, we have considered a time lag between cyst production in the upper water column and the time of recovery in the sediment trap. Around the mooring site, the sinking velocities of particles in the water column have been estimated between 75 - 150 m day<sup>-1</sup> (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B36">Fischer and Karaka&#x15f;, 2009</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B57">Iversen and Ploug, 2013</xref>). <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B57">Iversen and Ploug (2013)</xref> showed that sinking velocities of diatoms increased linearly to the size of aggregated diatoms, resulting in a mean sinking velocity of about 150 m day<sup>-1</sup>. Dinoflagellate cysts and diatoms sank down to the ocean floor as part of aggregates or concentrated in faecal pellets. In the upwelling area off East Africa in the Arabian Sea, cyst associations changed simultaneously in sediment trap material collected at 1030 and 3045 m depth within 14 days collection intervals, leading to a minimal sinking velocity of 140 m day<sup>-1</sup> (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B141">Zonneveld and Brummer, 2000</xref>). Higher sinking velocities of up to 274 m day<sup>-1</sup> were estimated in Cape Blanc by comparing the cyst associations in sediment trap samples collected at 730 and 3557 m depths at a location more offshore to the present trap site (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B151">Zonneveld et&#xa0;al., 2010</xref>). Based on the results of 140 m day<sup>-1</sup> and 274 m day<sup>-1</sup> sinking velocities and deployment depths between 1249 &#x2013; 1364 m, a time lag of 4.6 to ten days was estimated. When a maximal time lag of ten days was applied, the cyst export flux was enhanced when upwelling filaments crossed the trap location, and enhanced dust input was observed in the trap samples, increasing the upper water nutrient concentrations (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="f6">
<bold>Figure&#xa0;6E</bold>
</xref>). Furthermore, the highest export flux of dinoflagellate cysts in the winter of 2012 coincided with a long period of strong upwelling in the region during the years 2011 and 2012 and enhanced lithogenic influx in the trap samples related to increased Saharan dust emissions recorded in 2012 and 2013 (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B39">Fischer et&#xa0;al., 2019</xref>). This finding agreed with earlier observations of increased cyst production during high nutrient concentrations in upper waters supporting the assumption that of cyst sinking rates are the same order of magnitude as those of diatoms (e.g., <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B145">Zonneveld et&#xa0;al., 2022a</xref>).</p>
<p>Lateral transport of particulate organic matter in the water column can occur in the region in nepheloid layers of subsurface and intermediate water depths as well as just above the sea floor (e.g., <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B62">Karaka&#x15f; et&#xa0;al., 2006</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B63">2009</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B143">Zonneveld et&#xa0;al., 2018</xref>). Lateral transport of particles can alter the rate and composition of the export flux collected by the sediment traps (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B56">Inthorn et&#xa0;al., 2006</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B8">Asper and Smith, 2019</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B114">Romero et&#xa0;al., 2021</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B113">Romero and Ramondenc, 2022</xref>). Dinoflagellate cysts laterally transported in intermediate and bottom water nepheloid layers extended up to 130 km off the Cape Blanc shelf break (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B143">Zonneveld et&#xa0;al., 2018</xref>). As such, part of the observed cysts collected in the traps did not originate from the upper waters at the trap site. However, recent investigations showed that the resuspension of shelf material and the position of nepheloid layers in the region were not permanent (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B145">Zonneveld et&#xa0;al., 2022a</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B148">2022b</xref>). Clear nepheloid layers were observed in the water column in November 2015 and 2018 and were almost absent in the summer of 2020 and November 2021 (see cruise reports of <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B139">Zonneveld et&#xa0;al., 2016</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B140">2019a</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B142">2020</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B149">2022c</xref>). <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B113">Romero and Ramondenc (2022)</xref> investigated the diatom export flux in the same sediment trap. They documented that throughout the time series, benthic diatoms from the shelf sediments formed a considerable part of the association. However, microscopic observations of upper water plankton samples collected in November 2018 revealed that many benthic diatoms could have colonized larger pelagic diatoms (Zonneveld and Versteegh, pers. obs). Therefore, it was unclear if the observed benthic diatoms collected in the sediment trap originated from the shelf or local sources. Unfortunately, we have no method to determine the ratio between the autochthonous and allochthonous association recovered in our trap samples. Nevertheless, we observed a strong correlation of cyst fluxes and association composition variabilities with changing environmental conditions in the upper waters at the trap site with a time lag of 10 days. Therefore, we assumed that most of the recovered dinoflagellate cysts in the trap represented cysts originating from the upper water column in the vicinity of the trap site.</p>
</sec>
<sec id="s4_3">
<label>4.3</label>
<title>Dinoflagellate cyst groups according to environmental parameters</title>
<p>Based on the CCA analyses mentioned in the result and the visual observation of the absolute abundances of the main contributor species, five groups of dinoflagellate cysts that showed similar relationships to the studied environmental parameters could be distinguished:</p>
<sec id="s4_3_1">
<label>4.3.1</label>
<title>Species group 1 (maximal upwelling)</title>
<p>CCA group 1 consisted of heterotrophic taxa that were ordinated on the positive side of the wind speed and SSTa. In the region, strong northwestern winds triggered maximal upwelling intensity with the filaments reaching far into the open ocean. These filaments were characterised by relatively stratified surface waters with high nutrient availability. This condition correlated with the highest relative and absolute abundances of <italic>Echinidinium delicatum/granulatum</italic>, <italic>Echinidinium</italic> spp., <italic>Echinidinium transparantum/zonneveldiae</italic>, <italic>Trinovantedinium</italic> spp., and <italic>Protoperidinium latidorsale</italic> (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="f6">
<bold>Figures&#xa0;6F</bold>
</xref>, <xref ref-type="fig" rid="f7">
<bold>7</bold>
</xref>).</p>
<fig id="f6" position="float">
<label>Figure&#xa0;6</label>
<caption>
<p>Comparison between several environmental parameters and the concentration as well as the relative contributions of six dinoflagellate cyst species groups. <bold>(A)</bold> sea surface temperature (SST); <bold>(B)</bold> sea surface temperature anomaly (SSTa); <bold>(C)</bold> wind direction; <bold>(D)</bold> wind speed; <bold>(E)</bold> total export fluxes (cysts m<sup>-2</sup> d<sup>-1</sup>) of dinoflagellate cysts; <bold>(F)</bold> relative contribution (%) of each dinoflagellate species group according to CCA analysis; <bold>(G)</bold> concentration of Chlorophyll-<italic>a</italic>; <bold>(H)</bold> visibility distance indicating dust input. Grey shades in the background indicate maximal upwelling intensity.</p>
</caption>
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</fig>
<fig id="f7" position="float">
<label>Figure&#xa0;7</label>
<caption>
<p>Flux rate of dinoflagellate cyst taxa (cysts m<sup>-2</sup> d<sup>-1</sup>). Fluxes in green bars are species group 1 and fluxes in yellow bars are species group 2. Grey shades indicate maximal upwelling intensity, brown shades indicate maximum dust input, and the horizontal dashed lines indicate calendar year separation.</p>
</caption>
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</fig>
<p>This result was also observed in drifting trap studies in our study area, which revealed that a higher export flux of <italic>Echinidinium</italic> species occurred in and at the rim of active upwelling cells (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B148">Zonneveld et&#xa0;al., 2022b</xref>). Furthermore, sediment trap and surface sediment studies reported high concentrations of <italic>E. delicatum/granulatum</italic> and <italic>E. transparantum</italic>/<italic>zonneveldiae</italic> at times of enhanced active upwelling at a more offshore position compared to our trap site (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B151">Zonneveld et&#xa0;al., 2010</xref>) and in other areas with a similar system such as the Arabian Sea, the Benguela upwelling area, along the North American Pacific coast, along the southwest Mexican coast, the Cariaco Basin, the Portugal Bay, and off the west coast of Iberian Peninsula (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B141">Zonneveld and Brummer, 2000</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B103">Radi and de Vernal, 2004</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B96">Pospelova et&#xa0;al., 2008</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B106">Ribeiro and Amorim, 2008</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B12">Bouimetarhan et&#xa0;al., 2009</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B71">Limoges et&#xa0;al., 2010</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B151">Zonneveld et&#xa0;al., 2010</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B16">Bringu&#xe9; et&#xa0;al., 2019</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B43">Garc&#xed;a-Moreiras et&#xa0;al., 2021</xref>). <italic>E. zonneveldiae</italic> was described by <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B51">Head (2003)</xref> and successively documented in the upwelling regions of the Santa Barbara Basin, Cariaco Basin, and off Cape Blanc. <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B16">Bringu&#xe9; et&#xa0;al. (2019)</xref> reported that <italic>E. granulatum</italic> was more abundant at the weaker stage of upwelling. However, this species was recorded during maximal upwelling in the other regions. Seasonal production of <italic>Echinidinium</italic> was also observed in areas with stratified upper water columns where the high nutrient concentrations were provided by river discharge or transported coastal upwelling waters (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B97">Pospelova et&#xa0;al., 2010</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B99">Price and Pospelova, 2011</xref>). The ambient water conditions of these regions were often characterised by some variability in the water column stratification. A strong stratification appeared when fresh (river) waters covered the salty marine waters while turbulence occurred at the freshwater - saltwater interface.</p>
<p>
<italic>Trinovantedinium</italic> spp. was observed only sporadically in our record, and the connection of high concentration of this genus with maximal upwelling was recorded for a few years only. In other upwelling regions, this genus was often grouped with other peridinioid cysts because of its low export flux or its sporadic occurrence showed no clear temporal pattern (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B141">Zonneveld and Brummer, 2000</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B106">Ribeiro and Amorim, 2008</xref>). The same holds for <italic>P. latidorsale</italic>. Nevertheless, in the Santa Barbara Basin sediment traps, an enhanced flux of <italic>P. latidorsale</italic> showed a positive correlation to the active upwelling phase (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B15">Bringu&#xe9; et&#xa0;al., 2013</xref>). In the Northwest Arabian Sea, Saanich Inlet, and Cariaco Basin, the cyst export production of this species was not strictly linked to the presence of an active upwelling phase but could be linked to the availability of its food source (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B141">Zonneveld and Brummer, 2000</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B99">Price and Pospelova, 2011</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B16">Bringu&#xe9; et&#xa0;al., 2019</xref>). Therefore, we assume these species were related to upwelled waters in the research area.</p>
</sec>
<sec id="s4_3_2">
<label>4.3.2</label>
<title>Species group 2 (maximal upwelling and dust input)</title>
<p>CCA group 2 consisted of heterotrophic and photo-/mixotrophic taxa that were ordinated on the positive side of dust input, Chl-<italic>a</italic> concentration, and intermediate wind speed values. Throughout the years, the relative abundance and export fluxes of group 2 increased when dust input and upwelling intensified (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="f6">
<bold>Figures&#xa0;6F</bold>
</xref>, <xref ref-type="fig" rid="f7">
<bold>7</bold>
</xref>). Dust contains several trace elements, and although the exact ways in which dust input fertilizes the ocean are not well understood, high dust input can enhance phytoplankton production (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B33">Erickson et&#xa0;al., 2003</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B124">Stuut et&#xa0;al., 2005</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B27">Duarte et&#xa0;al., 2006</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B118">Skonieczny et&#xa0;al., 2013</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B38">Fischer et&#xa0;al., 2016</xref>). This latter was supported by our observation of a close relationship between Chl-<italic>a</italic> concentration and enhanced dust input in CCA analyses (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="f5">
<bold>Figure&#xa0;5</bold>
</xref>). Group 2 contained the heterotrophic taxa; <italic>Archaeperidinium</italic> spp., <italic>Lejeunecysta paratenella</italic>, <italic>Polykrikos</italic> spp., <italic>Protoperidinium americanum</italic>, <italic>Protoperidinium stellatum</italic>, and <italic>Protoperidinium subinerme</italic>, and the photo-/mixotrophic species; <italic>Impagidinium</italic> spp. and <italic>Operculodinium israelianum</italic> (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="f7">
<bold>Figure&#xa0;7</bold>
</xref>).</p>
<p>The seasonal production of <italic>Archaeperidinium</italic> species has not been well investigated except in <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B99">Price and Pospelova (2011)</xref>, where <italic>A. saanichi</italic> is listed as Cyst type L. This condition could be caused by taxonomic difficulties and often low concentrations of this genus in sediment trap samples from other regions. In this study, the cyst export production of this genus, notably <italic>A. saanichi</italic> and <italic>A. constrictum</italic> had relatively high export production until 2008, after which it declined. A similar trend was observed in <italic>P. americanum</italic>. This species seasonal export flux was more pronounced in the first half of the trap time series and declined after 2007. A strong positive correlation between the production of <italic>P. americanum</italic> and seasonal upwelling was observed in the NW Arabian Sea (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B141">Zonneveld and Brummer, 2000</xref>). However, a relation to enhanced dust input was not reported before the present study.</p>
<p>The overall trend of these species export flux seemed contradictory to the enhanced dust input. The long-term trend of dust input showed a gradual increase rather than a decrease. A possible explanation for this is that the dust composition changed over the years, which could influence the composition of the phytoplankton community (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B40">Friese et&#xa0;al., 2017</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B74">Lu et&#xa0;al., 2017</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B135">Yang et&#xa0;al., 2019</xref>). Shifts in prey availability might lead to the declining production of these cyst taxa. Unfortunately, no record was available to show if the dust composition in this location has changed over the trap time series. Future assessments of the dust composition from these sediment trap samples are required to clarify this hypothesis.</p>
<p>A positive relationship between the export fluxes of <italic>P. stellatum</italic> and <italic>P. subinerme</italic> (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="f3">
<bold>Figure&#xa0;3I</bold>
</xref>) with the presence of upwelling has also been observed in sediment trap samples from the Northwest Arabian Sea and Cariaco Basin (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B141">Zonneveld and Brummer, 2000</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B16">Bringu&#xe9; et&#xa0;al., 2019</xref>). However, the influence of dust input on the respective cyst fluxes had not yet been recorded. This latter holds as well for the other species within this group. It might be caused by taxonomic problems (some species generally being grouped) and the lack of studies investigating the role of terrestrial mineral input on the production of cysts. Therefore, this study proposes implementing terrestrial minerals as potential steering factors for cyst production in future studies.</p>
</sec>
<sec id="s4_3_3">
<label>4.3.3</label>
<title>Species group 3 (upwelling relaxation)</title>
<p>CCA group 3 was formed by the photo-/mixotrophic taxa <italic>Lingulodinium polyedra</italic> and <italic>Gymnodinium</italic> spp. (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="f6">
<bold>Figures&#xa0;6F</bold>
</xref>, <xref ref-type="fig" rid="f8">
<bold>8</bold>
</xref>). These taxa were ordinated on the positive side of the wind direction and the negative side of the wind speed and SSTa (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="f5">
<bold>Figure&#xa0;5</bold>
</xref>). This represents northwestern winds, which led to weaker upwelling in the region, mainly in late summer - autumn. The overall export flux of both species was higher from 2003 to early 2009, strongly fell in the following years, and mildly recovered in 2015.</p>
<fig id="f8" position="float">
<label>Figure&#xa0;8</label>
<caption>
<p>Flux rate of dinoflagellate cyst species (cysts m<sup>-2</sup> d<sup>-1</sup>). Blue bars represent species of group 3, orange bars represent species group 4, and grey bars represent species group 5. Grey shades indicate maximal upwelling intensity, brown shades indicate maximum dust input, and the horizontal dashed lines indicate calendar year separation.</p>
</caption>
<graphic mimetype="image" mime-subtype="tiff" xlink:href="fmars-11-1284425-g008.tif"/>
</fig>
<p>The increased cyst flux of <italic>L. polyedra</italic> and <italic>Gymnodinium</italic> spp. during less intense upwelling, in line with previous studies in the region and other upwelling areas. Sediment trap studies in the Santa Barbara and Cariaco Basins showed higher export production of <italic>L. polyedra</italic> during phases of upwelling relaxation (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B15">Bringu&#xe9; et&#xa0;al., 2013</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B16">2019</xref>). A drifting trap survey in an upwelling cell off Cape Blanc demonstrated that <italic>L. polyedra</italic> was formed during the transition from active upwelling towards more stratified conditions in offshore drifting filaments (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B142">Zonneveld et&#xa0;al., 2020</xref>). Sediment surface studies in Northeast Brazil, Northeast Pacific, West Africa, Black Sea corridor and the West Coast of Iberian Peninsula documented that cyst production of this species increased under warm, stratified, and nutrient-rich waters (e.g., <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B133">Vink et&#xa0;al., 2000</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B96">Pospelova et&#xa0;al., 2008</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B104">Radi and de Vernal, 2008</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B12">Bouimetarhan et&#xa0;al., 2009</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B67">Leroy et&#xa0;al., 2013</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B86">Mudie et&#xa0;al., 2017</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B43">Garc&#xed;a-Moreiras et&#xa0;al., 2021</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B44">2023</xref>). In our record, the export flux of <italic>L. polyedra</italic> was not restricted to upwelling relaxation phases. We observed enhanced export flux of <italic>L. polyedra</italic> during maximal upwelling in a few years. At times of maximal upwelling of this area, the upper water conditions, such as the rate of stratification, can change fast in small spatial and temporal scales. Studies on the life cycle of <italic>L. polyedra</italic> have shown that this species can produce both asexual and sexual cysts (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B34">Figueroa and Bravo, 2005</xref>). Although the possible role of sexual and asexual cysts has not been established, asexual cysts have often been linked to the ability of the species to adapt quickly to fast-changing environments (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B34">Figueroa and Bravo, 2005</xref>). In river plume areas and fjord systems that are characterised by a strong variability in upper water stratification, high concentrations of <italic>L. polyedra</italic> were observed (e.g., <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B68">Lewis, 1988</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B11">Blanco, 1995</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B120">Smayda and Trainer, 2010</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B147">Zonneveld et&#xa0;al., 2013</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B44">Garc&#xed;a-Moreiras et&#xa0;al., 2023</xref>). Therefore, we assume that in our research area, <italic>L. polyedra</italic> benefited from the changing environmental conditions in upper water at transition phases from active upwelling to more stratified conditions.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, it was not possible to differentiate unequivocally between cysts of <italic>G. catenatum</italic>, <italic>G. microreticulatum</italic>, and <italic>G.nolleri</italic> as the size of all brown microreticulate cysts observed in the Cape Blanc region fell in the overlapping size range of the three species. Furthermore, it was generally difficult to identify the exact number of cingular vesicles in the observed specimens. Consequently, we had to group these species as <italic>Gymnodinium</italic> spp. The export fluxes of <italic>Gymnodinium</italic> spp. were higher during the weaker upwelling phases in most of the years but comparable to <italic>L. polyedra</italic>, the enhanced cyst export flux of <italic>Gymnodinium</italic> spp. was not completely restricted to phases of upwelling weakening. Nevertheless, our observations are largely in line with surface sediments studies conducted in NW Iberian Peninsula, where <italic>G. catenatum</italic> had a positive relationship with more stratified upper water conditions (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B14">Bravo et&#xa0;al., 2010</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B92">Pitcher et&#xa0;al., 2010</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B107">Ribeiro et&#xa0;al., 2012</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B43">Garc&#xed;a-Moreiras et&#xa0;al., 2021</xref>). In the Cariaco Basin sediment trap study, the concentration of <italic>G. nolleri</italic> cysts increased during &#x201c;secondary upwelling&#x201d; marked by the weakening of upwelling winds (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B17">Bringu&#xe9; et&#xa0;al., 2018</xref>). A 7-day <italic>in-situ</italic> observation of cyst production in an active upwelling cell offshore Cape Blanc also documented that <italic>L. polyedra</italic> and <italic>Gymnodinium</italic> spp. were generally produced when the water column became more stratified due to upwelled waters forming an offshore drifting upwelling filament (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B148">Zonneveld et&#xa0;al., 2022b</xref>). Therefore, we suggest that the species of group 3 can be used as indicators for the upwelling relaxation in our studied area.</p>
</sec>
<sec id="s4_3_4">
<label>4.3.4</label>
<title>Species group 4 (warm surface waters)</title>
<p>CCA group 4 was formed by species that ordinated on high values of the SST, intermediate values of the wind direction, and negative values of the dust input and Chl-<italic>a</italic> concentration. Despite the insignificant impact of the SST (p-value&lt;0.05) in this system (<xref ref-type="table" rid="T5">
<bold>Table&#xa0;5</bold>
</xref>), the relative abundance of this group showed a higher percentage at times of warmer SST that was usually observed during upwelling relaxation (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="f6">
<bold>Figure&#xa0;6F</bold>
</xref>). The main contributors of this group are <italic>Protoperidinium reticulatum</italic> and <italic>Bitectatodinium spongium</italic> (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="f8">
<bold>Figure&#xa0;8</bold>
</xref>).</p>
<table-wrap id="T5" position="float">
<label>Table&#xa0;5</label>
<caption>
<p>Result of canonical correspondence analysis (CCA) measuring contribution values of environmental parameters in the studied area.</p>
</caption>
<table frame="hsides">
<thead>
<tr>
<th valign="top" align="center">Parameter</th>
<th valign="top" align="center">% variance</th>
<th valign="top" align="center">p-value</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td valign="top" align="center">Wind speed</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">23.5</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">0.002</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top" align="center">Chlorophyll -<italic>a</italic>
</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">22.8</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">0.002</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top" align="center">Wind direction</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">18.8</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">0.002</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top" align="center">Dust input</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">15.6</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">0.008</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top" align="center">SSTa</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">9.2</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">0.042</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top" align="center">SST</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">8.4</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">0.07</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<table-wrap-foot>
<fn>
<p>p-value determined if a variable is statistically significant (&lt;0.05) or not.</p>
</fn>
</table-wrap-foot>
</table-wrap>
<p>Although <italic>P. reticulatum</italic> was observed in the majority of our samples, its occurrences still showed a positive relationship with warm surface waters at times of weaker upwelling. This result suggested that this species could tolerate variable environmental conditions, which was corroborated by the global geographic distribution of <italic>P. reticulatum</italic> in surface sediment samples, showing that it has a cosmopolitan distribution (e.g., <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B147">Zonneveld et&#xa0;al., 2013</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B77">Marret et&#xa0;al., 2020</xref>). The sediment trap study from the Cariaco Basin, <italic>P. reticulatum</italic> showed higher export flux during upwelling relaxation when surface waters were more stratified (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B17">Bringu&#xe9; et&#xa0;al., 2018</xref> and <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B16">2019</xref>). Furthermore, in the Northeast Pacific and Southwest/West African surface sediments, high relative abundances of these cysts were observed in the more offshore regions of the coastal upwelling areas (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B103">Radi and de Vernal, 2004</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B54">Holzwarth et&#xa0;al., 2007</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B96">Pospelova et&#xa0;al., 2008</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B12">Bouimetarhan et&#xa0;al., 2009</xref>).</p>
<p>In contrast, <italic>B. spongium</italic> is distributed strictly in tropical and sub-tropical regions (e.g., <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B147">Zonneveld et&#xa0;al., 2013</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B77">Marret et&#xa0;al., 2020</xref>). In the Cariaco Basin, the highest production of <italic>B. spongium</italic> was observed during active upwelling (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B17">Bringu&#xe9; et&#xa0;al., 2018</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B16">2019</xref>). However, in other regions, the production of <italic>B. spongium</italic> was not restricted to the presence of upwelling. Although in the Northwest Arabian Sea, the highest export flux was observed during the southwest monsoon at times of active upwelling, cysts of this species were observed as well in samples collected during the northeast monsoon when warm stratified upper waters were present (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B141">Zonneveld and Brummer, 2000</xref>). The highest absolute and relative abundances of <italic>B. spongium</italic> was found in the Indus Fan (Northwest Arabian Sea), a region without upwelling but with warm and nutrient-rich surface waters (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B146">Zonneveld and Jurkschat, 1999</xref>). Therefore, we interpret that warm eutrophic surface waters is required for the occurrence of <italic>B. spongium</italic> rather than the mixing of upper waters.</p>
</sec>
<sec id="s4_3_5">
<label>4.3.5</label>
<title>Species group 5 (no relationship with local environmental conditions)</title>
<p>CCA group 5 consisted of heterotrophic and photo-/mixotrophic taxa that were ordinated on the intermediate values of all studied parameters. The main contributors in this group were <italic>Brigantedinium</italic> spp., <italic>Echinidinium aculeatum</italic>, <italic>Pentapharsodinium dalei</italic>, <italic>Protoperidinium</italic> conicum, and <italic>Protoperidinium monospinum</italic> (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="f8">
<bold>Figure&#xa0;8</bold>
</xref>). Additionally, this group includes two taxa that occurred sporadically in the record: <italic>Impagidinium aculeatum</italic> and <italic>Spiniferites</italic> spp.</p>
<p>
<italic>Brigantedinium</italic> spp. dominated the dinoflagellate cyst association in most samples. Although its concentration followed the upwelling intensity, its relative abundance remained high during upwelling relaxation. The accumulation rate of <italic>Brigantedinium</italic> spp. was related to enhanced upwelling in many regions such as the Arabian Sea, Benguela upwelling, Canary Current Upwelling, West Coast of Iberian Peninsula, and Northeast Pacific (e.g., <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B141">Zonneveld and Brummer, 2000</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B103">Radi and de Vernal, 2004</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B122">Sprangers et&#xa0;al., 2004</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B54">Holzwarth et&#xa0;al., 2007</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B96">Pospelova et&#xa0;al., 2008</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B12">Bouimetarhan et&#xa0;al., 2009</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B71">Limoges et&#xa0;al., 2010</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B43">Garc&#xed;a-Moreiras et&#xa0;al., 2021</xref>). Sediment trap studies in Omura Bay (Japan), Saanich Inlet (Canada), and the Mauritanian upwelling region (NW Africa) documented a positive correlation between export production of <italic>Brigantedinium</italic> spp. with several primary producers such as diatoms, coccolithophores, and photo-/mixotrophic dinoflagellates (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B42">Fujii and Matsuoka, 2006</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B97">Pospelova et&#xa0;al., 2010</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B151">Zonneveld et&#xa0;al., 2010</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B99">Price and Pospelova, 2011</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B15">Bringue et al., 2013</xref>). These results indicated that cyst export flux of <italic>Brigantedinium</italic> spp. is strongly related to the abundance of their prey.</p>
<p>Although the relative abundance of <italic>E. aculeatum</italic> did not show a positive relationship with specific environmental parameters, the highest annual export fluxes of <italic>E. aculeatum</italic> usually occurred at times of maximal upwelling and sometimes during high dust input and when upwelling weakened (indicated by higher SST). The export flux of <italic>E. aculeatum</italic> was not always higher during enhanced upwelling or dust input. However, our data still suggested that enhanced availability of nutrients in the upper water might increase its cyst export production. In surface sediments from the Benguela upwelling area and off Southwest Mexico, a higher abundance of <italic>E. aculeatum</italic> was observed in regions characterised by coastal upwelling (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B1004">Zonneveld et&#xa0;al., 2001</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B54">Holzwarth et&#xa0;al., 2007</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B71">Limoges et&#xa0;al., 2010</xref>). In the sediment traps of the Santa Barbara and Cariaco Basins, <italic>E. aculeatum</italic> showed increased export production during the later stages of active upwelling until upwelling relaxation set in (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B15">Bringu&#xe9; et&#xa0;al., 2013</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B17">2018</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B16">2019</xref>). The combination of this information and our results indicated that export production of <italic>E. aculeatum</italic> might be positively influenced by the availability of nutrients in the upper water column that was not always triggered by upwelling, as observed in Saanich Inlet (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B99">Price and Pospelova, 2011</xref>).</p>
<p>A similar pattern was observed for <italic>P. dalei</italic>, the most dominant photo-/mixotrophic species in our dataset. However, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B69">Li et&#xa0;al. (2020)</xref> reported another species (<italic>Pentapharsodinium imarense</italic>) with similar morphology features. It is possible that <italic>P. imarense</italic> was identified as <italic>P. dalei</italic> since they are better distinguished through molecular identification. Although no significant annual trend was observed in the export flux of <italic>P. dalei</italic>, its high cyst flux was observed at maximal upwelling intensity and enhanced dust input, notably in winter. In Northeast Pacific, Portugal Bay, and Red Sea surface sediments, high concentrations of cysts of <italic>P. dalei</italic> were observed in regions characterised by colder upper waters (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B103">Radi and de Vernal, 2004</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B96">Pospelova et&#xa0;al., 2008</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B106">Ribeiro and Amorim, 2008</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B31">Elshanawany and Zonneveld, 2016</xref>). Also, sediment trap observation in the Cariaco Basin documented increased <italic>P. dalei</italic> export flux during low SST and active upwelling (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B17">Bringu&#xe9; et&#xa0;al., 2018</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B16">2019</xref>). However, it was argued that lower temperatures rather than upwelling enhanced export fluxes of <italic>P. dalei</italic> in this region. In our record, the occurrence of <italic>P. dalei</italic> could not be linked to low temperatures but rather to nutrient availability.</p>
<p>Even though the overall export flux of <italic>I. aculeatum</italic> was low, it occurred in the samples throughout the trap time series. <italic>I. aculeatum</italic> was generally observed in high relative abundances in surface sediment samples of oligotrophic regions and was often interpreted as a typical oligotrophic species (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B133">Vink et&#xa0;al., 2000</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B122">Sprangers et&#xa0;al., 2004</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B96">Pospelova et&#xa0;al., 2008</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B104">Radi and de Vernal, 2008</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B12">Bouimetarhan et&#xa0;al., 2009</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B32">Elshanawany et&#xa0;al., 2010</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B152">Zumaque et&#xa0;al., 2017</xref>). However, cyst degradation studies showed that this species is more resistant to aerobic degradation than many other dinoflagellate cysts (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B144">Zonneveld et&#xa0;al., 2019b</xref>). This species high relative abundance in oligotrophic areas was generally the result of the high bottom water oxygen concentrations that prevail in oligotrophic regions, leading to the post-depositional degradation of the other cyst species (e.g., <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B144">Zonneveld et&#xa0;al., 2019b</xref>). Upwelling is a permanent feature and dust reaches this region regularly, leading to the upper water column trophic states never becoming oligotrophic. Thus, our results suggested that <italic>I. aculeatum</italic> could tolerate limited nutrient availability but was not restricted to it.</p>
<p>Only little information has been obtained on the relation between the export production of <italic>P. monospinum</italic> and environmental conditions. It could be that this species was often combined with the other spiny peridinioid cysts due to its rarity and low concentration in other locations. Sediment trap studies in the distal extension of the upwelling filaments of Cape Blanc showed that cyst production of <italic>P. monospinum</italic> increased when filaments reached the trap location (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B125">Susek et&#xa0;al., 2005</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B151">Zonneveld et&#xa0;al., 2010</xref>). However, at our trap location, the export production of this species could not be linked to any variation in environmental conditions. This was also the case for <italic>P. conicum</italic>, with a positive relationship between increasing upwelling and increasing export flux of <italic>P. conicum</italic> only reported in the Cariaco Basin (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B16">Bringu&#xe9; et&#xa0;al., 2019</xref>). In Omura Bay (Japan), Lisbon Bay (Portugal), and the central Strait of Georgia (Canada), the production of <italic>P. conicum</italic> was high throughout the year with no clear seasonal trend (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B125">Susek et&#xa0;al., 2005</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B42">Fujii and Matsuoka, 2006</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B106">Ribeiro and Amorim, 2008</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B97">Pospelova et&#xa0;al., 2010</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B99">Price and Pospelova, 2011</xref>). Therefore, our result implies that strong upwelling was not the only driving factor influencing the cyst production of <italic>P. conicum</italic>.</p>
</sec>
</sec>
<sec id="s4_4">
<label>4.4</label>
<title>Long-term variations in the cyst association</title>
<p>The result of the CBeu sediment trap study in the Mauritanian upwelling system provided a long and almost continuous record of the seasonal, annual, and multi-annual variability in the dinoflagellate cyst association. As expected, the upwelling intensity was triggered by the strength of upwelling winds that control the annual seasonality of dinoflagellate cyst export flux. However, we observed that each upwelling episode showed differences in the dominance and composition of the species (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="f4">
<bold>Figure&#xa0;4A</bold>
</xref>). Since the beginning of the record, no species, except for <italic>Brigantedinium</italic> spp., could sustain its dominance during maximal upwelling throughout all years. Sporadic occurrences and irregular increases of some species added to the complexity of dinoflagellate response to episodes of more intense upwelling in the studied area. For instance, the short-term occurrence of <italic>Protoperidinium lousianense</italic> (<italic>Trinovantedinium pallidifulvum</italic>) in 2008 and increased export fluxes of many <italic>Spiniferites</italic> species in 2008 and <italic>B. spongium</italic> in 2014/2015, demonstrated this heterogeneity (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="f8">
<bold>Figure&#xa0;8</bold>
</xref>). The Chl-<italic>a</italic> concentration was the only parameter that showed strong inter-annual variations similar to the dinoflagellate cyst association composition and export flux. These findings suggested that biological factors such as intra- and inter-species interactions were responsible for the changes in this ecosystem, coherent with changes found in other ecosystems (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B24">Daly and Smith, 1993</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B87">Naujokaitis-Lewis and Fortin, 2016</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B110">Rollwagen-Bollens and Bollens, 2020</xref>). Inter-species and group competition, predation, and variation of prey might have determined the dominance and composition of dinoflagellate cysts taxa in every upwelling episode (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B24">Daly and Smith, 1993</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B110">Rollwagen-Bollens and Bollens, 2020</xref>). This outcome agreed with observations from <italic>in-situ</italic> pump and drifting trap surveys in the region. Here, it was observed that the export flux of cysts in individual active upwelling cells contained different unique species associations (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B145">Zonneveld et&#xa0;al., 2022a</xref>, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B148">2022b</xref>).</p>
<p>The 18-year sediment trap record also documented a significant change in the composition of dinoflagellate cyst association. A turnover was marked by the shift in dominance from <italic>Archaeperidinium</italic> and <italic>Protoperidinium</italic> in favour of <italic>Echinidinium</italic> species in the maximum upwelling phase of 2007. The dominance of <italic>Echinidinium</italic> species became more pronounced after 2009 (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="f4">
<bold>Figure&#xa0;4A</bold>
</xref>). Around the same time, a shift in dominance of the photo-/mixotrophic association was observed from <italic>Gymnodinium</italic> spp. to <italic>Pentapharsodinium dalei</italic> (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="f4">
<bold>Figure&#xa0;4B</bold>
</xref>). These changes in the association coincided with the enhancement of the frequency of dust input and a shift in its seasonality recorded since 2008. The dust transported offshore in the Cape Blanc area has different sources in different seasons (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B40">Friese et&#xa0;al., 2017</xref>). In the summer of 2013 - 2015, dust contained ferroglaucophane and zeolite were transported from Mauritania, Mali, and Libya. In the winter, the dust contained fluellite, indicating that it had been transported from Western Sahara. Furthermore, the aerosol dust carried not only micronutrients but also toxic metals such as Cadmium (Cd), Copper (Cu), and Zinc (Zn). A high concentration of those heavy metals in seawater could threaten phytoplankton growth and alter their community; for instance, cyanobacteria (<italic>Synechococcus</italic>), haptophytes (<italic>Emiliania huxleyi</italic>), chrysophytes (<italic>Hymenomonus corterae</italic>) and dinoflagellates (<italic>Alexandrium</italic> sp. <italic>Gonyaulax</italic> sp. and <italic>Protocentrum</italic> sp.) (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B74">Lu et&#xa0;al., 2017</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B135">Yang et&#xa0;al., 2019</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B138">Zhou et&#xa0;al., 2021</xref>). Cyst production of <italic>L. polyedra</italic> was more resistant to metal contamination, but there was a threshold that negatively influenced the cyst production of this species (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B74">Lu et&#xa0;al., 2017</xref>). A shift in diatoms association was detected from the same sediment trap in 2006 but was not linked to dust input or upwelling changes (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B113">Romero and Ramondenc, 2022</xref>). The shifts in phytoplankton would eventually influence the zooplankton, in this case, heterotrophic dinoflagellates. However, no report has specified the prey selections of <italic>Archaeperidinium</italic> and <italic>Protoperidinium</italic> species identified in this study, and the motile affinities of <italic>Echinidinium</italic> species are still unknown (see <xref ref-type="table" rid="T2">
<bold>Table&#xa0;2</bold>
</xref>). There is also limited information about the potential influence of dust input and its composition on the dinoflagellate cyst community and production. However, our results suggested that the mineral composition of aerosol dust might be a factor influencing the cyst export production of several dinoflagellate taxa in this study. Consequently, more research is needed to study the effect of terrestrial mineral particle input on the production of dinoflagellate cysts. This new information is valuable to interpret changes in the dinoflagellate cyst association throughout time, such as in sediment cores, since the source or changes of nutrient composition have not often been addressed as driving factors.</p>
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<label>4.5</label>
<title>Cysts of potentially toxic dinoflagellates</title>
<p>Several marine cyst-forming dinoflagellates can produce toxins, with their blooms sometimes accompanied by discoloration of the upper water column (e.g., <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B3">Amorim et&#xa0;al., 2001</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B102">Quijano-Scheggia et&#xa0;al., 2012</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B73">Liu et&#xa0;al., 2020</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B130">Terenko and Krakhmalnyi, 2021</xref>). Blooms of these species can cause severe health problems and/or can have a large economic impact (e.g. <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B53">Holmes and Teo, 2002</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B123">Starr et&#xa0;al., 2017</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B95">Pitcher and Louw, 2021</xref>). As their cysts can form a seed bank in sediments, the upper water population can be revived, it is important to obtain insight into their cyst export production dynamics (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B4">Anderson et&#xa0;al., 2021</xref>). We recovered cysts of five potentially toxic dinoflagellates (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="f3">
<bold>Figures&#xa0;3L&#x2013;O</bold>
</xref>
<bold>),</bold> they were cysts of <italic>Gymnodinium</italic> spp., <italic>Lingulodinium polyedra</italic>, <italic>Protoceratium reticulatum</italic>, <italic>Pyrodinium bahamense</italic>, and members of the <italic>Gonyaulax spinifera</italic> complex.</p>
<p>
<italic>G. spinifera</italic>, <italic>L. polyedra</italic>, and <italic>P. reticulatum</italic> produce yessotoxins, whereas species of <italic>Gymnodinium</italic> (notably <italic>G. catenatum</italic>) and <italic>P. bahamense</italic> secrete saxitoxins (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B19">Costa et&#xa0;al., 2015</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B72">Liu et&#xa0;al., 2017</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B85">Morquecho, 2019</xref>). These toxins are the primary cause of high mortality in marine organisms and can cause human health problems as well, such as Diarrhetic Shellfish Poisoning (DSP) and Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning (PSP) (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B53">Holmes and Teo, 2002</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B123">Starr et&#xa0;al., 2017</xref>). So far, only minimal information was available about the impact of these species off Cape Blanc (e.g., <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B52">Hern&#xe1;ndez et&#xa0;al., 1998</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B105">Reyero et&#xa0;al., 1999</xref>). In our study, these species either occurred only in a few years or were present in a certain time interval. For instance, <italic>Gymnodinium</italic> spp. and <italic>L. polyedra</italic> occurred in the association before 2009 and after 2015, while <italic>P. bahamense</italic> was notably present between 2009 and 2012. However, north of this region, on the Atlantic coast in the region north off Cape Yubi, frequent recordings of red tides and high toxin concentrations in mussels and oysters were documented, as well as high concentrations of these cysts in surface sediments (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B126">Taleb et&#xa0;al., 2003</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B1002">Holzwarth et&#xa0;al., 2010</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B93">Pitcher and Fraga, 2015</xref>). Even further north in the upwelling region off the Iberian Peninsula, occurrences of <italic>L. polyedra</italic> were typically observed in sediments of transitional environments between coastal upwelling water and warmer offshore waters whereas cysts of <italic>G. catenatum</italic> were typically observed below the mid-shelf upwelling fronts (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B43">Garc&#xed;a-Moreiras et&#xa0;al., 2021</xref>).</p>
<p>Compared to our study region, the upwelling in these northern regions was not permanent but intensified in summer/fall, and waters were more stratified in boreal winter (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B7">Ar&#xed;stegui et&#xa0;al., 2009</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B20">Cropper et&#xa0;al., 2014</xref>). Our study showed a correlation with earlier observations; these potentially toxic species thrive best at times of upwelling relaxation, where the water column becomes more stratified but still shows high nutrient availability (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B119">Smayda, 2002</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B120">Smayda and Trainer, 2010</xref>). Due to the non-permanent character of the upwelling episodes in the regions north of Cape Blanc, it was likely that these conditions occurred more frequently, which might explain the higher abundance of these species in these areas. In the sediment trap record, <italic>Gymnodinium</italic> spp. and <italic>L. polyedra</italic> were among the taxa that went down in production after the dust input enhancement in 2008 (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="f8">
<bold>Figure&#xa0;8</bold>
</xref>). The cause might be the composition and intensity of dust emitted in the upper water column, as explained in the previous section. The methodology applied in this study could not detect a significant change in the upwelling wind speed or direction. therefore, no conclusion could be made from this parameter. However, this study still provided information about the ecology of these harmful species and the potential driving factor of their production dynamics. Hopefully, it will enrich our knowledge about future toxic blooms in the Cape Blanc area and nearby fishing grounds off Mauritania or another location with a similar environmental setting.</p>
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</sec>
<sec id="s5" sec-type="conclusions">
<label>5</label>
<title>Conclusions</title>
<p>The dinoflagellate cyst export flux recovered by a sediment trap off Cape Blanc, Mauritania between, 2003 and 2020 was dominated by heterotrophic species. Throughout this period the upper water environment was influenced by permanent upwelling, the intensity in which was controlled by the speed of the coastal wind originating from the north and northeast. Stronger upwelling occurred in most years in spring &#x2013; summer, resulting in large offshore drifting filaments transporting cool and nutrient-rich across the location of our sediment trap. By estimating a phase lag of maximal ten days, the annual high export production of dinoflagellate cysts correlated to the maximum upwelling phase even though the intensities varied over 18 years. Enhanced export fluxes of dinoflagellate cysts were also observed when the Saharan dust input to the Atlantic Ocean intensified in the winter prior to 2008 as well as in both winter and summer after 2008. Indication of laterally transported dinoflagellate cysts could not be confirmed in the trap samples. However, the variations of dinoflagellate cyst export fluxes indicated a positive relationship with the environmental parameters.</p>
<p>Results of Canonical Correspondence Analysis (CCA) demonstrated the strong impact of wind systems on the dinoflagellate cysts export production. On this basis, taxa with similar export flux patterns were grouped. These groups consisted of taxa that had their maximal export flux during (1) maximal upwelling intensity: <italic>Echinidinium</italic> spp., <italic>E. delicatum/granulatum</italic>, <italic>E. transparantum/zonneveldiae</italic>, <italic>Trinovantedinium</italic> spp., and <italic>Protoperidinium latidorsale</italic>; (2) maximal upwelling and times of increased dust input: <italic>Archaeperidinium</italic> spp., <italic>P. americanum</italic>, <italic>P. stellatum, P. subinerme, Impagidinium</italic> spp., and <italic>Operculodinium israelianum</italic>; (3) upwelling relaxation: <italic>Gymnodinium</italic> spp. and <italic>Lingulodinium polyedra</italic>; (4) warm surface waters: <italic>Bitectatodinium spongium</italic> and <italic>Protoceratium reticulatum</italic>; (6) dinoflagellate cysts with no specific relation to all studied parameters: <italic>Brigantedinium</italic> spp., <italic>E. aculeatum</italic>, <italic>I. aculeatum</italic>, <italic>Pentapharsodinium dalei</italic>, <italic>P. conicum, P. monospinium</italic>, and <italic>Spiniferites</italic> spp.</p>
<p>Although <italic>Brigantedinium</italic> spp. dominated the association throughout the entire sediment trap time series, the composition and total flux of every species varied strongly between episodes of enhanced upwelling. We suggest that biological factors such as intra- and inter-species interactions might have caused this strong variation in the cyst export flux. A long-term variation occurred in 2007 and became more pronounced in 2009. It was indicated by a domination shift from <italic>Archaeperidinium</italic> and <italic>Protoperidinium</italic>, to <italic>Echinidinium</italic> species in the heterotrophic species association as well as a change in domination from <italic>Gymnodinium</italic> spp. to <italic>P. dalei</italic> in the photo-/mixotrophic species association. These changes coincided with the increase of dust input and the shift of dust seasonality since 2008, suggesting that different dust compositions due to changes in dust sources might have influenced the cyst export flux off Cape Blanc.</p>
<p>We observed cysts of five potentially toxic dinoflagellate species in our trap material: <italic>Gymnodinium</italic> spp.<italic>, L. polyedra</italic>, <italic>Protoceratium reticulatum</italic>, <italic>Pyrodinium bahamense</italic>, and members of the <italic>Gonyaulax spinifera</italic> complex. Although the concentration of these cysts was low and their occurrence was infrequent, their presence in our sediment trap suggests a potential risk for future toxic blooms in the Cape Blanc area and nearby fishing grounds off Mauritania.</p>
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<title>Data availability statement</title>
<p>Supplementary data of this study is available in PANGAEA repository data, access to the dataset: doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.963113.</p>
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<sec id="s7" sec-type="author-contributions">
<title>Author contributions</title>
<p>SR: Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing &#x2013; original draft. GV: Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing &#x2013; review &amp; editing. VP: Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization, Writing &#x2013; review &amp; editing. KZ: Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing &#x2013; review &amp; editing.</p>
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<title>Funding</title>
<p>The author(s) declare financial support was received for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. This comprehensive research is supported by the funding from German Research Foundation (DFG) through MARUM Excellence Cluster &#x201c;The Ocean in the Earth System&#x201d;.</p>
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<title>Acknowledgments</title>
<p>The authors thank the captains and crew members of RV Poseidon, RV METEOR, and RV Maria S. Merian, the MARUM sediment trap team for deploying and recovering the sediment trap, and all institutions and individuals who have participated and contributed throughout this research. The authors are also thankful of the support from German, Moroccan, and Mauritanian authorities. The work was supported by the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg (HWK) senior research fellowship in marine and climate research to Dr. Pospelova during her 2016 sabbatical at the Institute for Advanced Study (Germany) with Prof. Zonneveld group at the University of Bremen.</p>
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