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Articles | Volume 19, issue 7
Articles | Volume 19, issue 7
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-19-2007-2022
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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-19-2007-2022
© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
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Articles | Volume 19, issue 7
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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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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