Microbial denitrification dominates nitrate losses from forest ecosystems

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 112, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1470-1474

  Fang, Yunting ^a,b   Koba, Keisuke ^b   Makabe, Akiko ^b   Takahashi, Chieko ^b   Zhu, Weixing ^c   Hayashi, Takahiro ^b   Hokari, Azusa A ^b   Urakawa, Rieko ^d   Bai, Edith ^a   Houlton, Benjamin Z ^e   Xi, Dan ^a   Zhang, Shasha ^a   Matsushita, Kayo ^b   Tu, Ying ^a   Liu, Dongwei ^a   Zhu, Feifei ^a   Wang, Zhenyu ^a   Zhou, Guoyi ^f   Chen, Dexiang ^g   Makita, Tomoko ^b   Toda, Hiroto ^b   Liu, Xueyan ^b   Chen, Quansheng ^a,h   Zhang, Deqiang ^f   Li, Yide ^g   Yoh, Muneoki ^b   more..

^a INSTITUTE OF APPLIED ECOLOGY   (China)

^b TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^g RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF FORESTRY   (China)

^h INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

Author keywords

Denitrification; Forested watersheds; Nitrate isotopes; Nitrogen cycling

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; NITRATE; NITROGEN; NITROUS OXIDE; OXYGEN; SOIL WATER; STABLE ISOTOPE; NITRIC ACID DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; CHINA; COASTAL WATERS; DENITRIFICATION; JAPAN; MICROORGANISM; NITRATE LEACHING; NITRATE UPTAKE; NITROGEN CYCLING; NONHUMAN; PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; STREAM (RIVER); SURFACE SOIL; TROPICAL RAIN FOREST; TURNOVER TIME; WATERSHED; ECOSYSTEM; FOREST; METABOLISM; MICROFLORA;

DENITRIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM; FORESTS; MICROBIOTA; NITRATES;

EID: 84922374146     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1416776112     Document Type: Article

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