Nitrogen transformations in a through-flow wetland revealed using whole-ecosystem pulsed 15N additions

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 221-234

  O'Brien, Jonathan M ^a,c   Hamilton, Stephen K ^a   Kinsman Costello, Lauren E ^a   Lennon, Jay T ^a,b   Ostrom, Nathaniel E ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Michigan State University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIUM; AUTOTROPHY; DENITRIFICATION; DIEL MIGRATION; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; INFLOW; NITRATE; NITROGEN; NITROGEN CYCLE; NITROGEN ISOTOPE; OUTFLOW; TRANSFORMATION; WATER COLUMN; WETLAND;

EID: 84860484031     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2012.57.1.0221     Document Type: Article

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