Benthic nitrogen loss in the Arabian Sea off Pakistan

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 3, Issue NOV, 2012, Pages

  Sokoll, Sarah ^a   Holtappels, Moritz ^a   Lam, Phyllis ^a   Collins, Gavin ^b   Schlüter, Michael ^c   Lavik, Gaute ^a   Kuypers, Marcel M M ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MARINE MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^c ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anammox; Arabian sea; Benthic N loss; Denitrification; nirS; qPCR

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875885048     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2012.00395     Document Type: Article

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