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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Nature Portfolio
2021-02-01
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Series: | Nature Communications |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21400-3 |