Nitrogen cycling in the secondary nitrite maximum of the eastern tropical North Pacific off Costa Rica

C Buchwald, AE Santoro, RHR Stanley… - Global …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Nitrite is a central intermediate in the marine nitrogen cycle and represents a critical juncture
where nitrogen can be reduced to the less bioavailable N2 gas or oxidized to nitrate and …

Aspects of the marine nitrogen cycle of the Chukchi Sea shelf and Canada Basin

ZW Brown, KL Casciotti, RS Pickart, JH Swift… - Deep Sea Research …, 2015 - Elsevier
As a highly productive, seasonally ice-covered sea with an expansive shallow continental
shelf, the Chukchi Sea fuels high rates of sedimentary denitrification. This contributes to its …

Isotopic evidence for the occurrence of biological nitrification and nitrogen deposition processing in forest canopies

R Guerrieri, EI Vanguelova, G Michalski… - Global Change …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
This study examines the role of tree canopies in processing atmospheric nitrogen (Ndep) for
four forests in the United Kingdom subjected to different Ndep: Scots pine and beech stands …

Nitrate isotope distributions on the US GEOTRACES North Atlantic cross-basin section: Signals of polar nitrate sources and low latitude nitrogen cycling

D Marconi, MA Weigand, PA Rafter, MR McIlvin… - Marine Chemistry, 2015 - Elsevier
We report and interpret the nitrate δ 15 N and δ 18 O distributions in the cross-basin transect
of the US GEOTRACES North Atlantic expedition. Low nitrate δ 15 N observed in the …

Isotopic evidence for the turnover of biological reactive nitrogen in the Pearl River Estuary, south China

F Ye, Z Ni, L Xie, G Wei, G Jia - Journal of Geophysical …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Nitrate (NO3−) concentrations and the isotopic composition (δ15N and δ18O) of
water samples from the Pearl River Estuary (PRE), south China, were measured to constrain …

Isotopic evidence for nitrification in the Antarctic winter mixed layer

SM Smart, SE Fawcett, SJ Thomalla… - Global …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
We report wintertime nitrogen and oxygen isotope ratios (δ15N and δ18O) of seawater
nitrate in the Southern Ocean south of Africa. Depth profile and underway surface samples …

Vertical decoupling of nitrate assimilation and nitrification in the Sargasso Sea

SE Fawcett, BB Ward, MW Lomas… - Deep Sea Research Part I …, 2015 - Elsevier
The fraction of phytoplankton growth that leads to the rain of organic carbon out of the sunlit
surface ocean (“export production”) is central to the ocean׳ s sequestration of atmospheric …

Nutrient cycling in the Atlantic basin: The evolution of nitrate isotope signatures in water masses

RE Tuerena, RS Ganeshram, W Geibert… - Global …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
A basin‐wide transect of nitrate isotopes (δ15NNO3, δ18ONO3), across the UK
GEOTRACES 40° S transect in the South Atlantic is presented. This data set is used to …

Nitrogen cycling in the deep sedimentary biosphere: nitrate isotopes in porewaters underlying the oligotrophic North Atlantic

SD Wankel, C Buchwald, W Ziebis, CB Wenk… - …, 2015 - bg.copernicus.org
Nitrogen (N) is a key component of fundamental biomolecules. Hence, its cycling and
availability are central factors governing the extent of ecosystems across the Earth. In the …

High turnover rates indicated by changes in the fixed N forms and their stable isotopes in A ntarctic landfast sea ice

F Fripiat, DM Sigman, G Massé… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
We report concentration and nitrogen and oxygen isotopic measurements of nitrate, total
dissolved nitrogen, and particulate nitrogen from Antarctic landfast sea ice, covering almost …