Nitrous oxide production by nitrification and denitrification in the Eastern Tropical South Pacific oxygen minimum zone

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 42, Issue 24, 2015, Pages 10755-10764

  Ji, Qixing ^a   Babbin, Andrew R ^b   Jayakumar, Amal ^a   Oleynik, Sergey ^a   Ward, Bess B ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

denitrification; nitrification; nitrous oxide; oxygen; oxygen minimum zone

Indexed keywords

NITRIFICATION; NITROGEN OXIDES; OXYGEN;

DOMINANT PATHWAYS; NITRATE REDUCTION; NITRIFICATION AND DENITRIFICATION; NITRITE REDUCTASE; NITROUS OXIDE; NITROUS OXIDE PRODUCTION; OXYGEN MINIMUM ZONE; PRODUCTION RATES;

DENITRIFICATION;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ANOXIC CONDITIONS; DENITRIFICATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FLUX MEASUREMENT; NITRITE; NITROGEN ISOTOPE; NITROUS OXIDE; OXYGEN MINIMUM LAYER; OXYGENATION; TRACER;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (SOUTH);

EID: 84955214869     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015GL066853     Document Type: Article

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