ReviewNature reviews. Microbiology2022
The marine nitrogen cycle: new developments and global change.
Review in Nature reviews. Microbiology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 73 papers.
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73 citing papers in PubMed, 307 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Shotgun metagenomic dataset of microbial communities in the water column of the Flores Sea, Indonesia.Data in brief · 2026Article
- Ocean warming enhances iron use efficiencies of marine ammonia-oxidizing archaea.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
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- Oxygen-dependent metabolism of dissolved organic matter in hypoxic marine environments.The ISME journal · 2026Article
- Seagrass-derived carbon suppresses nitrification and NISME communications · 2026Article
- Unique phylogenies and metabolic adaptations of novel lineage III and comammoxISME communications · 2026Article
- Global patterns and drivers of nitrogen isotope signal in modern marine sediments.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Depth-dependent distribution patterns of ammonia- and nitrite-oxidizing microorganisms in the water column of stratified lakes.Scientific reports · 2025Article
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- Transport Matters: The Critical Role of the Hydrogen Evolution Reaction (HER) in Accelerating Electrochemical Nitrate to Ammonia Conversion.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025Article
- Clear niche partitioning of nitrite-oxidizing bacteria from the bottom and the slope of Mariana Trench.Microbiome · 2025Article
- Metalloporphyrin/Phthalocyanine Catalysts for Electrocatalytic Nitrogen Fixation.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025Review
- A regional ocean database for the Coastal China Sea.Scientific data · 2025Article
- Altered nutrient cycling functionality in seagrass meadows under a simulated future marine heatwave event.The New phytologist · 2025Article
- Tetranucleotide frequencies differentiate genomic boundaries and metabolic strategies across environmental microbiomes.mSystems · 2025Article
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13 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
Corrections and comments
- Erratum issued
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2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
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Abstract
The ocean is home to a diverse and metabolically versatile microbial community that performs the complex biochemical transformations that drive the nitrogen cycle, including nitrogen fixation, assimilation, nitrification and nitrogen loss processes. In this Review, we discuss the wealth of new ocean nitrogen cycle research in disciplines from metaproteomics to global biogeochemical modelling and in environments from productive estuaries to the abyssal deep sea. Influential recent discoveries include new microbial functional groups, novel metabolic pathways, original conceptual perspectives and ground-breaking analytical capabilities. These emerging research directions are already contributing to urgent efforts to address the primary challenge facing marine microbiologists today: the unprecedented onslaught of anthropogenic environmental change on marine ecosystems. Ocean warming, acidification, nutrient enrichment and seawater stratification have major effects on the microbial nitrogen cycle, but widespread ocean deoxygenation is perhaps the most consequential for the microorganisms involved in both aerobic and anaerobic nitrogen transformation pathways. In turn, these changes feed back to the global cycles of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide. At a time when our species casts a lengthening shadow across all marine ecosystems, timely new advances offer us unique opportunities to understand and better predict human impacts on nitrogen biogeochemistry in the changing ocean of the Anthropocene.
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