Meiofauna increases bacterial denitrification in marine sediments

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Bonaglia, S ^a   Nascimento, F J A ^a   Bartoli, M ^b   Klawonn, I ^a   Bruchert V ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METHANE; AMMONIUM DERIVATIVE; NITRIC ACID DERIVATIVE; NITROGEN; OXYGEN;

DENITRIFICATION; EUTROPHICATION; MARINE SEDIMENT; MEIOFAUNA; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; NITRATE; NITRIFYING BACTERIUM; NITROGEN CYCLE; REDUCTION;

ARTICLE; BIOTURBATION; BIVALVE; CARBON MINERALIZATION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENITRIFICATION; DENITRIFYING BACTERIUM; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MEIOFAUNA; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NITRIFICATION; NITROGEN CYCLING; NONHUMAN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEDIMENT; ANIMAL; AQUATIC SPECIES; BACTERIUM; BIOMASS; CHEMISTRY; DIFFUSION; ECOSYSTEM; EUTROPHICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; NEMATODE; NITROGEN CYCLE; POROSITY; TEMPERATURE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BIVALVIA; INVERTEBRATA;

AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; ANIMALS; AQUATIC ORGANISMS; BACTERIA; BIOMASS; BIVALVIA; DENITRIFICATION; DIFFUSION; ECOSYSTEM; EUTROPHICATION; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; METHANE; NEMATODA; NITRATES; NITROGEN; NITROGEN CYCLE; OXYGEN; POROSITY; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84928685471     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms6133     Document Type: Article

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