Nitrate and nitrite variability at the seafloor of an oxygen minimum zone revealed by a novel microfluidic in-situ chemical sensor

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2015, Pages

  Yücel, Mustafa ^a,b   Beaton, Alexander D ^c   Dengler, Marcus ^a   Mowlem, Matthew C ^c   Sohl, Frank ^d   Sommer, Stefan ^a  

^a GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

^b MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^d GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITRATE; NITRITE; NITRIC ACID DERIVATIVE; OXYGEN; SEA WATER; SOLUTION AND SOLUBILITY;

ARTICLE; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOSENSOR; CHEMICAL PARAMETERS; COASTAL WATERS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); LAB ON A CHIP SENSOR; MICROFLUIDICS; NITROGEN CYCLE; OXYGEN CONCENTRATION; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; PRESSURE; TEMPERATURE; VELOCITY; CHEMISTRY; DEVICES; MAURITANIA; PROCEDURES; SOLUTION AND SOLUBILITY; STANDARD; TIME FACTOR; UNCERTAINTY;

MAURITANIA; MICROFLUIDICS; NITRATES; NITRITES; OXYGEN; REFERENCE STANDARDS; SEAWATER; SOLUTIONS; TIME FACTORS; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 84941341647     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0132785     Document Type: Article

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