Anaerobic ammonium oxidation in the oxygen-deficient waters off northern Chile

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 2145-2156

  Thamdrup, Bo ^a   Dalsgaard, Tage ^b   Jensen, Marlene Mark ^a   Ulloa, Osvaldo ^c   Farías, Laura ^c   Escribano, Ruben ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b Department of Inland Fisheries   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CONCEPCIÓN   (Chile)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIUM; ANOXIC CONDITIONS; DENITRIFICATION; NITRITE; NITROGEN; OPEN OCEAN; OXIDATION; OXYGEN; WATER COLUMN;

CHILE; IQUIQUE; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (SOUTH); SOUTH AMERICA; TARAPACA;

EID: 33748328532     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2006.51.5.2145     Document Type: Article

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