Assessment of the importance of dissimilatory nitrate reduction to ammonium for the terrestrial nitrogen cycle

Biogeosciences

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1779-1791

  Rutting T ^a   Boeckx, P ^b   Muller C ^c,d   Klemedtsson, L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIUM; ASSESSMENT METHOD; BACTERIUM; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; CORRELATION; DENITRIFICATION; FUNGUS; HETEROTROPHY; LITERATURE REVIEW; MINERALIZATION; NITRATE; NITROGEN CYCLE; NITROGEN ISOTOPE; REDOX POTENTIAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOIL MICROORGANISM; SOIL NITROGEN; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SOIL TYPE; TERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FUNGI;

EID: 79960251932     PISSN: 17264170     EISSN: 17264189     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/bg-8-1779-2011     Document Type: Article

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