Influence of shellfish farming activities on nitrification, nitrate reduction to ammonium and denitrification at the water-sediment interface of the Thau lagoon, France

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 151, Issue 1-3, 1997, Pages 143-153

  Gilbert, Franck ^a   Souchu, Philippe ^b   Bianchi, Micheline ^c   Bonin, Patricia ^a  

^a STATION MARINE D ENDOUME   (France)

^b IFREMER   (France)

^c Lyon I University   (France)

Author keywords

Denitrification; Mediterranean Sea; Nitrate reduction to ammonium; Nitrification; Nitrogen bacterial processes; Sediment water exchanges; Shellfish farming; Thau lagoon

Indexed keywords

AMMONIUM; BACTERIAL ACTIVITY; DENITRIFICATION; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; NITRIFICATION; NITROGEN CYCLE; SEASONAL PATTERNS; SEDIMENT-WATER INTERFACE; SEDIMENT/WATER INTERFACE; SHELLFISH CULTURE; SHELLFISH FARMING;

FRANCE, LANGUEDOC-ROUSSILLON, HERCULT, THAU LAGOON;

EID: 0030618182     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps151143     Document Type: Article

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