Microbial nitrogen cycling in estuaries: from genes to ecosystem processes

J Damashek, CA Francis - Estuaries and Coasts, 2018 - Springer
Nitrogen (N) is one of the primary nutrients required to build biomass and is therefore in high
demand in aquatic ecosystems. Estuaries, however, are frequently inundated with high …

[PDF][PDF] Microbial nitrogen cycling at the saltwater–freshwater interface

AE Santoro - Hydrogeology Journal, 2010 - researchgate.net
Microbial communities inhabiting “subterranean estuaries” along the subsurface freshwater–
saltwater continuum determine the fate of nitrogen discharged to coastal waters. Little is …

The marine nitrogen cycle: new developments and global change

DA Hutchins, DG Capone - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2022 - nature.com
The ocean is home to a diverse and metabolically versatile microbial community that
performs the complex biochemical transformations that drive the nitrogen cycle, including …

[HTML][HTML] Microbial community structure–function relationships in yaquina bay estuary reveal spatially distinct carbon and nitrogen cycling capacities

B Kieft, Z Li, S Bryson, BC Crump, R Hettich… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Linking microbial community structure to ecological processes requires understanding of the
functional roles among individual populations and the factors that influence their …

[HTML][HTML] Connecting the dots: linking nitrogen cycle gene expression to nitrogen fluxes in marine sediment mesocosms

JL Bowen, AR Babbin, PJ Kearns… - Frontiers in Microbiology, 2014 - frontiersin.org
Connecting molecular information directly to microbial transformation rates remains a
challenge, despite the availability of molecular methods to investigate microbial …

Spatiotemporal relationships between the abundance, distribution, and potential activities of ammonia-oxidizing and denitrifying microorganisms in intertidal …

JM Smith, AC Mosier, CA Francis - Microbial ecology, 2015 - Springer
The primary objective of this study was to gain an understanding of how key microbial
communities involved in nitrogen cycling in estuarine sediments vary over a 12-month …

[HTML][HTML] The microbial ecology of estuarine ecosystems

BC Crump, JL Bowen - Annual Review of Marine Science, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Human civilization relies on estuaries, and many estuarine ecosystem services are provided
by microbial communities. These services include high rates of primary production that …

Genetic and biogeochemical investigation of sedimentary nitrogen cycling communities responding to tidal and seasonal dynamics in Cape Fear River Estuary

JA Lisa, B Song, CR Tobias, DE Hines - Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf …, 2015 - Elsevier
Tidal and seasonal fluctuations in the oligohaline reaches of estuaries may alter
geochemical features that influence structure and function of microbial communities involved …

Microbial community diversity associated with carbon and nitrogen cycling in permeable shelf sediments

EM Hunter, HJ Mills, JE Kostka - Applied and environmental …, 2006 - Am Soc Microbiol
Though a large fraction of primary production and organic matter cycling in the oceans
occurs on continental shelves dominated by sandy deposits, the microbial communities …

Biogeographical distributions of nitrogen‐cycling functional genes in a subtropical estuary

P Wang, JL Li, XQ Luo, M Ahmad, L Duan… - Functional …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Microbial biogeography has predominantly been studied through a taxonomic lens.
However, functional properties of microbial communities are often decoupled from their …