Nitrification-driven forms of nitrogen metabolism in microbial mat communities thriving along an ammonium-enriched subsurface geothermal stream

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Volumn 113, Issue , 2013, Pages 152-173

  Nishizawa, Manabu ^a   Koba, Keisuke ^b   Makabe, Akiko ^c   Yoshida, Naohiro ^c   Kaneko, Masanori ^d   Hirao, Shingo ^d   Ishibashi, Jun Ichiro ^d   Yamanaka, Toshiro ^e   Shibuya, Takazo ^a   Kikuchi, Tohru ^f   Hirai, Miho ^a   Miyazaki, Junichi ^a   Nunoura, Takuro ^a   Takai, Ken ^a  

^a JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^d KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIUM; GEOTHERMAL SYSTEM; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIAL MAT; NITRIFICATION; NITROGEN; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; STREAMWATER; WATER CHEMISTRY; WATER QUALITY;

AQUIFICALES; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 84877031941     PISSN: 00167037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gca.2013.03.027     Document Type: Article

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