Articles | Volume 19, issue 7
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-19-2007-2022
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-19-2007-2022
Research article
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11 Apr 2022
Research article |  | 11 Apr 2022

Suspended particulate matter drives the spatial segregation of nitrogen turnover along the hyper-turbid Ems estuary

Gesa Schulz, Tina Sanders, Justus E. E. van Beusekom, Yoana G. Voynova, Andreas Schöl, and Kirstin Dähnke

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Nitrogen turnover in the Ems estuary 2020 Gesa Schulz, Yoana G. Voynova, Marc Metzke, and Leon Schmidt https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.942220

Nitrogen turnover in the Ems estuary 2014 Tina Sanders and Wilhelm Petersen https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.942222

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Estuaries can significantly alter nutrient loads before reaching coastal waters. Our study of the heavily managed Ems estuary (Northern Germany) reveals three zones of nitrogen turnover along the estuary with water-column denitrification in the most upstream hyper-turbid part, nitrate production in the middle reaches and mixing/nitrate uptake in the North Sea. Suspended particulate matter was the overarching control on nitrogen cycling in the hyper-turbid estuary.
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