The effect of increased nitrate loading on nitrate reduction via denitrification and DNRA in salt marsh sediments

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 789-802

  Koop Jakobsen, Ketil ^a,b   Giblin, Anne E ^b  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY MARINE PROGRAM   (United States)

^b ECOSYSTEMS CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIUM; COASTAL SEDIMENT; DENITRIFICATION; NITRATE; REDUCTION; RHIZOSPHERE; SALTMARSH; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; SUBTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; WATER COLUMN;

MASSACHUSETTS; PLUM ISLAND SOUND; UNITED STATES;

PRUNUS DOMESTICA;

EID: 78650432111     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2009.55.2.0789     Document Type: Article

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