Warming can boost denitrification disproportionately due to altered oxygen dynamics.

BACKGROUND: Global warming and the alteration of the global nitrogen cycle are major anthropogenic threats to the environment. Denitrification, the biological conversion of nitrate to gaseous nitrogen, removes a substantial fraction of the nitrogen from aquatic ecosystems, and can therefore help to...

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Main Authors: Annelies J Veraart, Jeroen J M de Klein, Marten Scheffer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3069112?pdf=render