Linking crenarchaeal and bacterial nitrification to anammox in the Black Sea
Linking crenarchaeal and bacterial nitrification to anammox in the Black Sea
P. Lam,M. Jensen,6 Authors,M. Kuypers
2007 · DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0611081104
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 595 Citations
TLDR
Because anammox is a major nitrogen loss in marine suboxic waters, such nitrification–anammox coupling potentially occurring also in oceanic oxygen minimum zones would act as a short circuit connecting regenerated ammonium to direct nitrogen loss, thus reducing the presumed direct contribution from deep-sea nitrate.