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High rates of denitrification and nitrous oxide emission in arid biological soil crusts from the Sultanate of Oman.
The ISME journal - 1 Sept 2013
Abed Raeid M M, Lam Phyllis, de Beer Dirk, Stief Peter
Abstract excerpt
Using a combination of process rate determination, microsensor profiling and molecular techniques, we demonstrated that denitrification, and not anaerobic ammonium oxidation (anammox), is the major nitrogen loss process in biological soil crusts from Oman. Potential denitrification rates were 584±101 and 58±20 μmol N m(-2) h(-1) for cyanobacterial and lichen crust, respectively. Complete denitrification to N2 was...
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