Estimating denitrification in North Atlantic continental shelf sediments

Biogeochemistry

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 235-260

  Seitzinger, Sybil P ^a   Giblin, Anne E ^b  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ECOSYSTEMS CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

benthic mineralization; continental shelf; denitrification; global N cycle; nitrogen; North Atlantic; nutrients; onwelling; phytoplankton; sediments

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL SHELF; CONTINENTAL SHELVES; DENITRIFICATION; NITROGEN CYCLE; SEDIMENTS;

ATLANTIC, (NORTH);

EID: 0030302161     PISSN: 01682563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02179829     Document Type: Article

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