Organic-N loss by efflux and burial associated with a low efflux of inorganic N and with nitrate assimilation in Arctic sediments (Svalbard, Norway)

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 141, Issue 1-3, 1996, Pages 283-293

  Blackburn, T Henry ^a   Hall, Per O J ^b   Hulth, Stefan ^b   Landén, Angela ^b  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Ammonium; Assimilation; Burial; C:N; Denitrificati on; DON; Nitrate; Nitrification

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

AMMONIUM; ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; ARCTIC ZONE; ASSIMILATION; BURIAL; DENITRIFICATION; DISSOLVED ORGANIC NITROGEN; NITRATE; NITRIFICATION; ORGANIC NITROGEN;

SVALBARD;

EID: 0029664246     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps141283     Document Type: Article

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