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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2024

Ecological dynamics explain modular denitrification in the ocean.

Xin Sun, Pearse J Buchanan, Irene H Zhang, Magdalena San Roman, Andrew R Babbin, Emily J Zakem

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

14 citing papers in PubMed.

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  11. Removal by the fittest in ocean dead zones.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Xin SunDepartment of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford, CA 94305.ORCID 0000-0003-0280-4283
Pearse J BuchananDepartment of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford, CA 94305.ORCID 0000-0001-7142-882X
Irene H ZhangDepartment of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139.
Magdalena San RomanInstituto de Biología Funcional y Genómica, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas & Universidad de Salamanca, Salamanca 37007, Spain.
Andrew R BabbinDepartment of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139.ORCID 0000-0002-5046-0609
Emily J ZakemDepartment of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford, CA 94305.ORCID 0000-0001-6799-5063

Funding

MIT School of Science MathWorks Science Fellowship N/ANSF (NSF) 2125142NSF (NSF) OCE-2138890 and OCE-2142998Simons Foundation (SF) LS-FMME-00871981
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Microorganisms in marine oxygen minimum zones (OMZs) drive globally impactful biogeochemical processes. One such process is multistep denitrification (NO

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DenitrificationEcosystemOceans and SeasBacteriaNitrogenNitrous OxideOxygenSeawaterNitrogenNitrous OxideOxygendenitrificationecosystem modelingmarine oxygen minimum zonesmicrobial ecology

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PMID39693347
PMCPMC11670096

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