Insights on the marine microbial nitrogen cycle from isotopic approaches to nitrification

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 3, Issue OCT, 2012, Pages

  Casciotti, Karen L ^a   Buchwald, Carolyn ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Isotopic fractionation; Nitrate; Nitrification; Nitrogen; Nitrous oxide; Oxygen

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876311525     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2012.00356     Document Type: Review

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