Close coupling of N-cycling processes expressed in stable isotope data at the redoxcline of the Baltic Sea

Global Biogeochemical Cycles

Volumn 28, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 974-991

  Frey, Claudia ^a   Dippner, Joachim W ^a   Voss, Maren ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR BALTIC SEA RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Baltic Sea; denitrification; hypoxia; nitrate isotopes; nitrification; nitrogen cycle

Indexed keywords

ANOXIC CONDITIONS; DENITRIFICATION; DIFFUSION; EUTROPHICATION; NITROGEN CYCLE; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; REACTION KINETICS; REDOX CONDITIONS; STABLE ISOTOPE; TRANSFORMATION; WATER MASS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA; GOTLAND BASIN;

EID: 84924570950     PISSN: 08866236     EISSN: 19449224     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013GB004642     Document Type: Article

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