The use of nitrification inhibitors (NI) is a technique which is able to improve N fertilizer use
efficiency, to reduce nitrate leaching and to decrease the emission of the climate‐relevant …

Metagenomics applies a suite of genomic technologies and bioinformatics tools to directly
access the genetic content of entire communities of organisms. The field of metagenomics …

Soil microorganisms play important roles in nitrogen cycling within forest ecosystems.
Current research has revealed that a wider variety of microorganisms, with unexpected …

Archaea, primarily Crenarchaeota, are common in soil; however, the structure of soil
archaeal communities and the factors regulating their diversity and abundance remain …

Written by experts in the field, this thoroughly updated third edition covers commonly used
and emerging suspended and attached growth reactors. Drawing on their extensive …

Nitrogen is a requisite and highly demanded element for living organisms on Earth.
However, increasing human activities have greatly altered the global nitrogen cycle …

Genes of archaea encoding homologues of ammonia monooxygenases have been found
on a widespread basis and in large amounts in almost all terrestrial and marine …

Increasing evidence demonstrated the involvement of ammonia-oxidizing archaea (AOA) in
the global nitrogen cycle, but the relative contributions of AOA and ammonia-oxidizing …

The oxidation of ammonia to nitrate, nitrification, is a key process in the nitrogen cycle.
Ammonia-oxidizing archaea are present in large numbers in the ocean,, and soils …

Increasing global temperatures are having a profound impact in the Arctic, including the
dramatic loss of multiyear sea ice in 2007 that has continued to the present. The majority of …