The fate of nitrate in intertidal permeable sediments

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2014, Pages

  Marchant, Hannah K ^a   Lavik, Gaute ^a   Holtappels, Moritz ^a   Kuypers, Marcel M M ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MARINE MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; NITRATE; OXYGEN; NITRIC ACID DERIVATIVE; NITROGEN;

ARTICLE; AUTUMN; BIOACCUMULATION; BIOREMEDIATION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; COASTAL WATERS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DENITRIFICATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; EUKARYOTE; INTERTIDAL ZONE; ISOTOPE LABELING; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PERMEABILITY; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEDIMENT; SPRING; STORAGE; SUMMER; CHEMISTRY; GERMANY; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; SEA;

DENITRIFICATION; EUKARYOTA; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; GERMANY; NITRATES; NITROGEN; OCEANS AND SEAS; OXYGEN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION;

EID: 84940259546     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0104517     Document Type: Article

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