Anammox and denitrification in the oxygen minimum zone of the eastern South Pacific

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1331-1346

  Dalsgaard, Tage ^a   Thamdrup, Bo ^b   Farías, Laura ^c   Revsbech, Niels Peter ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CONCEPCIÓN   (Chile)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIUM; ANOXIC CONDITIONS; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DENITRIFICATION; IRRADIANCE; NITRATE; NITRITE; NITROGEN ISOTOPE; OXYGEN MINIMUM LAYER; SOURCE-SINK DYNAMICS;

CHILE; CHILKA LAKE; INDIA; ORISSA; PERU;

EID: 84864972038     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2012.57.5.1331     Document Type: Article

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