Coupled nitrification and N2 gas production as a cryptic process in oxic riverbeds

The N cycle involves complex, microbially-mediated shuttling between ammonium, nitrite and nitrate, with climatically important greenhouse gas byproducts. Here the authors use isotope labeling experiments in river sediments and find a cryptic new step in the N cycle between nitrification and the rem...

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Main Authors: Liao Ouyang, Bo Thamdrup, Mark Trimmer
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: Nature Portfolio 2021
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/b39bccb8e213483bb217a6c0bf5d4ba1
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Summary:The N cycle involves complex, microbially-mediated shuttling between ammonium, nitrite and nitrate, with climatically important greenhouse gas byproducts. Here the authors use isotope labeling experiments in river sediments and find a cryptic new step in the N cycle between nitrification and the removal of fixed N through N2 gas production.