Biogeochemical nitrogen cycling in wetland ecosystems: Nitrogen-15 isotope techniques

Methods in Biogeochemistry of Wetlands

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 553-591

  Huygens, Dries ^a,b,c   Trimmer, Mark ^d   Rütting, Tobias ^e   Müller, Christoph ^f,g   Heppell, Catherine M ^h   Lansdown, Katrina ^h   Boeckx, Pascal ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE CÓRDOBA   (Argentina)

^c UNIVERSIDAD AUSTRAL DE CHILE   (Chile)

^d QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^f JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^h QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anammox; Biogeochemical nitrogen cycling; Denitrification; Isotope dilution method; Isotope pairing technique; Nitrogen transformation; Revised isotope pairing technique; Tracing method; Wetland ecosystem

Indexed keywords

EID: 85101724977     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.2136/sssabookser10.c30     Document Type: Chapter

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