A mixture of nitrite-oxidizing and denitrifying microorganisms affects the δ18O of dissolved nitrate during anaerobic microbial denitrification depending on the δ18O of ambient water

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Volumn 119, Issue , 2013, Pages 31-45

  Wunderlich, Anja ^a,b   Meckenstock, Rainer U ^a   Einsiedl, Florian ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANOXIC CONDITIONS; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; DENITRIFICATION; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROORGANISM; NITRATE; STABLE ISOTOPE; TERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; AQUIFER; ISOTOPIC RATIO; NITRITE; NITROGEN ISOTOPE; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; WATER CHEMISTRY;

NITROBACTER VULGARIS; NITROBACTER WINOGRADSKYI;

EID: 84881559609     PISSN: 00167037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gca.2013.05.028     Document Type: Article

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