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Biochemical Ecology of Nitrification and Denitrification

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Advances in Microbial Ecology

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The transformations of nitrogenous compounds by soil bacteria have beenstudied for over a century. In terms of the global fluxes between aerial and terrestrial-aquatic systems, the simplified nitrogen cycle can be envisioned as a triangle where the only biologically reversible reaction occurs between ammonium and nitrate. The reverse reactions of dinitrogen fixation or denitrification by biological means do not occur in nature. Hence, the reductive process of denitrification, defined as the reduction of nitrate or nitrite to gaseous nitrogen (usually N2), is intimately associated with the oxidative process of nitrification.

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Verstraete, W., Focht, D.D. (1977). Biochemical Ecology of Nitrification and Denitrification. In: Alexander, M. (eds) Advances in Microbial Ecology. Advances in Microbial Ecology, vol 1. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-8219-9_4

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