Potential importance of physiologically diverse benthic foraminifera in sedimentary nitrate storage and respiration

Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences

Volumn 117, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Bernhard, Joan M ^a   Casciotti, Karen L ^a,b   McIlvin, Matthew R ^a   Beaudoin, David J ^a   Visscher, Pieter T ^c   Edgcomb, Virginia P ^a  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA; BIOACTIVITY; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DENITRIFICATION; ISOTOPIC RATIO; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; NITRATE; PHYSIOLOGY; RESERVOIR; RESPIRATION; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

CALIFORNIA; PACIFIC OCEAN; SANTA BARBARA BASIN; UNITED STATES;

ALLOGROMIIDAE; BOLIVINA ARGENTEA; BULIMINELLA TENUATA; CORNUTA; EUKARYOTA; FORAMINIFERA; FUNGI; FURSENKOINA; NONIONELLA STELLA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 84863439775     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012JG001949     Document Type: Article

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