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1Institute of Ecology and Genetics, University of Aarhus, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark.
Applied and Environmental Microbiology
|January 1, 1979
Abstract:
The denitrification rates in a marine sediment, estimated by using N-nitrate, V(max), K(m), and sediment nitrate concentrations, were 12.5 and 2.0 nmol of N(2)-N cm day at 0 to 1 and 1 to 3 cm, respectively, at 12 degrees C. The total rate was 165 nmol of N(2)-N m day.
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