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Multiple metabolisms constrain the anaerobic nitrite budget in the Eastern Tropical South Pacific
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2017
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Source: Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 31(2), 258-271
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Journal Title:Global Biogeochemical Cycles
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Description:The Eastern Tropical South Paci fic is one of the three major oxygen de ficient zones (ODZs) in the global ocean and is responsible for approximately one third of marine water column nitrogen loss. It is thebest studied of the ODZs and, like the others, features a broad nitrite maximum across the low oxygen layer. How the microbial processes that produce and consume nitrite in anoxic waters interact to sustain this feature is unknown. Here we used 15N-tracer experiments to disentangle five of the biologically mediated processes that control the nitrite pool, including a high-resolution pro file of nitrogen loss rates. Nitrate reduction to nitrite likely depended on organic matter fluxes, but the organic matter did not drive detectable
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Source:Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 31(2), 258-271
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ISSN:0886-6236;1944-9224;
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