Denitrification and Ammonia Formation in Anaerobic Coastal Sediments

AUTOR(ES)

Koike, Isao

RESUMO

Simultaneous determinations of nitrogen gas production, ammonia, and particulate organic nitrogen formation in the coastal sediments of Mangoku-Ura, Simoda Bay, and Tokyo Bay were made by using the 15N-label tracer method. The rate of nitrogen gas production in the sediment surface layer was about 10−2 μg atom of N per g per h, irrespective of the location of the sediments examined. [15N]ammonia and -particulate organic nitrogen accounted for 20 to 70% of the three products, and after several hours of incubation, the major fraction of nondenitrified 15N in Mangoku-Ura and Simoda Bay sediments was recovered as ammonia. In Tokyo Bay sediments, particulate organic nitrogen was produced at a greater rate than was ammonia. The reduction rate data suggest that the pathway of nitrate reduction to ammonia is important in coastal sediments.

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