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

• Published in: Geochemical Transactions
• Main Authors: Zeng, Jian, Chen, Min, Zheng, Minfang, Hu, Wangjiang, Qiu, Yusheng
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Springer International Publishing 2017
• Subjects: Research Article; Arctic; Chukchi Shelf; Pacific; Chukchi
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5607156/; https://doi.org/10.1186/s12932-017-0043-2

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. However, poten...