Coupled nitrification and N2 gas production as a cryptic process in oxic riverbeds
oleh: Liao Ouyang, Bo Thamdrup, Mark Trimmer
| Format: | Article |
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| Diterbitkan: | Nature Portfolio 2021-02-01 |
Deskripsi
The N cycle involves complex, microbially-mediated shuttling between ammonium, nitrite and nitrate, with climatically important greenhouse gas byproducts. Here the authors use isotope labeling experiments in river sediments and find a cryptic new step in the N cycle between nitrification and the removal of fixed N through N2 gas production.