Ecological control of nitrite in the upper ocean
oleh: Emily J. Zakem, Alia Al-Haj, Matthew J. Church, Gert L. van Dijken, Stephanie Dutkiewicz, Sarah Q. Foster, Robinson W. Fulweiler, Matthew M. Mills, Michael J. Follows
| Format: | Article |
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| Diterbitkan: | Nature Portfolio 2018-03-01 |
Deskripsi
Nitrite tends to peak at the base of the sunlit zone in the ocean, but the ecological drivers of the local and global distributions of nitrite are not known. Here, Zakem et al. use a marine ecosystem model to show how the interactions of nitrifying microbes mediate nitrite accumulation.