Ammonia oxidation rates and nitrification in the Arabian Sea

Global Biogeochemical Cycles

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Newell, Silvia E ^a   Babbin, Andrew R ^a   Jayakumar, Amal ^a   Ward, Bess B ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA OXIDATION; AMMONIA OXIDIZERS; AMMONIA OXIDIZING BACTERIA; ARABIAN SEA; ARCHAEA; ARCHAEAL; IN-SITU TEMPERATURE; MESOPELAGIC ZONE; MICROBIAL BIOMASS; NITRIFICATION RATES; OXYGEN MINIMUM ZONE; QUANTITATIVE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STABLE ISOTOPES; TRACE METAL;

AMMONIA; AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; DENITRIFICATION; GENES; ISOTOPES; METAL CLEANING; NITRIFICATION; OCEAN HABITATS; ORGANIC CARBON; OXIDATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRACE ELEMENTS;

REACTION RATES;

ABUNDANCE; AMMONIA; BACTERIUM; CARBON FLUX; MESOPELAGIC ZONE; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; NITRIFICATION; NITROGEN CYCLE; OPEN OCEAN; OXIDATION; OXYGEN MINIMUM LAYER; PERMEABILITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REACTION RATE; STABLE ISOTOPE; TRACER;

ARABIAN SEA; INDIAN OCEAN;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NITROSOMONADALES;

EID: 84855266344     PISSN: 08866236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GB003940     Document Type: Article

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