Geochemical and Microbiological Studies of Nitrous Oxide Variations within the New NEEM Greenland Ice Core during the Last Glacial Period

Geomicrobiology Journal

Volumn 33, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 647-660

  Miteva, Vanya ^a   Sowers, Todd ^a   Schüpbach, Simon ^b   Fischer, Hubertus ^b   Brenchley, Jean ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Geochemistry; Greenland; metabolic activity; microbial diversity; N2O; NEEM ice core

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DENITRIFICATION; GEOCHEMISTRY; ICE CORE; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROORGANISM; NITROGEN CYCLE; NITROUS OXIDE; PALEOCLIMATE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRACE GAS;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FIRMICUTES; FUNGI; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; PROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 84959246920     PISSN: 01490451     EISSN: 15210529     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01490451.2015.1074321     Document Type: Article

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