Combined gel probe and isotope labeling technique for measuring dissimilatory nitrate reduction to ammonium in sediments at millimeter-level resolution

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 76, Issue 18, 2010, Pages 6239-6247

  Stief, Peter ^a   Behrendt, Anna ^a   Lavik, Gaute ^a   De Beer, Dirk ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MARINE MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROLLING FACTORS; DIFFUSIVE EQUILIBRATION; DISSIMILATORY NITRATE REDUCTION; FRESHWATER SEDIMENT; HYPOBROMITE; IN-SITU; ISOTOPE LABELING; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; ISOTOPIC LABELING; MARINE SEDIMENTS; NITRATE REDUCTION; PHYSICAL DISTURBANCE; QUARTZ SAND; SEDIMENT CORE; SEDIMENT PORE WATER; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS; WATER COLUMNS;

ACETYLENE; AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; ISOTOPES; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MICROSENSORS; OXYGEN; PROBES; QUARTZ; REDUCTION; SAND; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS; SUBMARINE GEOLOGY;

GELS;

AMMONIA; NITRATE; NITROGEN;

AMMONIUM; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; MARINE SEDIMENT; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NITRATE; OXYGEN; POREWATER; PROBE; QUARTZ; REDUCTION; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; SEDIMENT CORE; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SULFIDE; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DENITRIFICATION; EUTROPHICATION; ISOTOPE LABELING; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; SEDIMENT;

AMMONIA; DENITRIFICATION; EUTROPHICATION; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; ISOTOPE LABELING; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NITRATES; NITROGEN ISOTOPES; OXIDATION-REDUCTION;

EID: 77956840335     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01104-10     Document Type: Article

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