Denitrification exceeds anammox as a nitrogen loss pathway in the Arabian Sea oxygen minimum zone

Deep-Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 384-393

  Bulow, Silvia E ^a   Rich, Jeremy J ^a,b   Naik, Hema S ^c   Pratihary, Anil K ^c   Ward, Bess B ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (India)

Author keywords

Anammox; Arabian Sea; Denitrification; Oxygen minimum zone

Indexed keywords

ANAEROBIC AMMONIUM OXIDATION; ANAMMOX; ARABIAN SEA; CONVENTIONAL MEASUREMENTS; DENITRIFICATION RATE; DIRECT METHOD; FIXED NITROGEN; LOW OXYGEN; LOW RATES; NET LOSS; NITROGEN LOSS; NITROGEN TRANSFORMATIONS; OCEANIC WATERS; OXYGEN MINIMUM ZONE; PRODUCTION RATES; UPPER BOUNDARY; WATER COLUMNS; WORLD OCEAN;

AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; NITROGEN; NITROGEN REMOVAL; OCEAN HABITATS; OCEANOGRAPHY; ORGANIC CARBON; OXYGEN; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

DENITRIFICATION;

AMMONIUM; ANOXIC CONDITIONS; DENITRIFICATION; NITROGEN; NITROGEN CYCLE; NITROGEN FIXATION; ORGANIC CARBON; OXIDATION; OXYGEN; OXYGEN MINIMUM LAYER; SEAWATER; TRANSFORMATION;

ARABIAN SEA; INDIAN OCEAN;

EID: 77649239037     PISSN: 09670637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dsr.2009.10.014     Document Type: Article

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