The Global Nitrogen Cycle

Fundamentals of Geobiology

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 36-48

  Ward, Bess ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biological N cycle, domain of microbes; Excess N loading from atmospheric, and eutrophication; Fixed nitrogen on Earth, and denitrification anammox; Geological nitrogen cycle; Global nitrogen cycle, anthropogenic perturbations; Human alterations of N cycle, surface water acidification; Nitrogen fixing microbes, nifH, gene encoding azoferredoxin; Organic N degradation, accumulation in soils, sediments; Organic N, and the global N inventory; Versatile redox chemistry of nitrogen, the linked reactions

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886520436     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118280874.ch4     Document Type: Chapter

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