Articles | Volume 13, issue 5
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-13-1453-2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-13-1453-2016
Research article
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09 Mar 2016
Research article |  | 09 Mar 2016

Nitrogen cycling in shallow low-oxygen coastal waters off Peru from nitrite and nitrate nitrogen and oxygen isotopes

Happy Hu, Annie Bourbonnais, Jennifer Larkum, Hermann W. Bange, and Mark A. Altabet

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