Coupled nitrification and N2 gas production as a cryptic process in oxic riverbeds

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 rem...

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Main Authors: Liao Ouyang, Bo Thamdrup, Mark Trimmer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2021-02-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21400-3