Terrestrial denitrification: Challenges and opportunities

Ecological Processes

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-11

  Groffman, Peter M ^a  

^a CARY INSTITUTE OF ECOSYSTEM STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; ECOSYSTEMS; NITROGEN; REMOTE SENSING; WATER QUALITY;

BACKGROUND CONCENTRATION; BIOGEOCHEMICAL PROCESS; CONCEPTUAL APPROACHES; MEASUREMENT METHODS; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIATION; SUBSTRATE CONCENTRATIONS; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS;

DENITRIFICATION;

BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; DENITRIFICATION; SPATIAL VARIATION; SUBSTRATE; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM;

EID: 85028604547     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21921709     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2192-1709-1-11     Document Type: Review

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