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SUBMITTER: Fang Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4321283 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Fang Yunting Y Koba Keisuke K Makabe Akiko A Takahashi Chieko C Zhu Weixing W Hayashi Takahiro T Hokari Azusa A AA Urakawa Rieko R Bai Edith E Houlton Benjamin Z BZ Xi Dan D Zhang Shasha S Matsushita Kayo K Tu Ying Y Liu Dongwei D Zhu Feifei F Wang Zhenyu Z Zhou Guoyi G Chen Dexiang D Makita Tomoko T Toda Hiroto H Liu Xueyan X Chen Quansheng Q Zhang Deqiang D Li Yide Y Yoh Muneoki M
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20150120 5
Denitrification removes fixed nitrogen (N) from the biosphere, thereby restricting the availability of this key limiting nutrient for terrestrial plant productivity. This microbially driven process has been exceedingly difficult to measure, however, given the large background of nitrogen gas (N2) in the atmosphere and vexing scaling issues associated with heterogeneous soil systems. Here, we use natural abundance of N and oxygen isotopes in nitrate (NO3 (-)) to examine dentrification rates acros ...[more]