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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-20-4307-2023
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-20-4307-2023
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23 Oct 2023
Research article |  | 23 Oct 2023

Alkalinity and nitrate dynamics reveal dominance of anammox in a hyper-turbid estuary

Mona Norbisrath, Andreas Neumann, Kirstin Dähnke, Tina Sanders, Andreas Schöl, Justus E. E. van Beusekom, and Helmuth Thomas

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Total alkalinity (TA) is the oceanic capacity to store CO2. Estuaries can be a TA source. Anaerobic metabolic pathways like denitrification (reduction of NO3 to N2) generate TA and are a major nitrogen (N) sink. Another important N sink is anammox that transforms NH4+ with NO2 into N2 without TA generation. By combining TA and N2 production, we identified a TA source, denitrification, occurring in the water column and suggest anammox as the dominant N2 producer in the bottom layer of the Ems.
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