Nitrogen isotope fractionation during nitrate, ammonium and urea uptake by marine diatoms and coccolithophores under various conditions of N availability

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 169, Issue , 1998, Pages 29-41

  Waser, Nathalie A ^a   Yin, Kedong ^a   Yu, Zhiming ^b   Tada, Kuninao ^c   Harrison, Paul J ^a   Turpin, David H ^d   Calvert, Stephen E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (China)

^c Faculty of Agriculture   (Japan)

^d QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

15N 14N; Ammonium; Coccolithophores; Diatoms; Isotope fractionation; Nitrate; Nitrogen uptake; Urea

Indexed keywords

AMMONIUM DERIVATIVE; DISTILLATION; EMILIANIA HUXLEYI; FRACTIONATION; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MODEL; NITRATE; NITROGEN; NUTRIENT UPTAKE; UREA DERIVATIVE;

BIOLOGICAL UPTAKE; ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATION; NITROGEN; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; PHYTOPLANKTON;

ALGAE; BACILLARIOPHYTA; EMILIANIA HUXLEYI; HAPTOPHYCEAE; INVERTEBRATA; NITZSCHIA ALBA;

EID: 0032490870     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps169029     Document Type: Article

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