A potential nitrogen sink discovered in the oxygenated Chukchi Shelf waters of the Arctic

• Published in: Geochemical Transactions
• Main Authors: Jian Zeng, Min Chen, Minfang Zheng, Wangjiang Hu, Yusheng Qiu
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: BMC 2017
• Subjects: Denitrification; Oxygenated water column; Primary productivity; Chukchi Shelf; Environmental sciences; GE1-350; Chemistry; QD1-999; Arctic; Pacific; Chukchi
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12932-017-0043-2; https://doaj.org/article/cb3ff5b5a9d4487487a4b1dc36aecab8

Abstract The western Arctic Shelf has long been considered as an important sink of nitrogen because high primary productivity of the shelf water fuels active denitrification within the sediments, which has been recognized to account for all the nitrogen (N) removal of the Pacific water inflow. Howev...