The marine nitrogen cycle: new developments and global change

DA Hutchins, DG Capone - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2022 - nature.com
The ocean is home to a diverse and metabolically versatile microbial community that
performs the complex biochemical transformations that drive the nitrogen cycle, including …

Non-cyanobacterial diazotrophs: global diversity, distribution, ecophysiology, and activity in marine waters

KA Turk-Kubo, MR Gradoville, S Cheung… - FEMS microbiology …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Biological dinitrogen (N2) fixation supplies nitrogen to the oceans, supporting primary
productivity, and is carried out by some bacteria and archaea referred to as diazotrophs …

[HTML][HTML] Global oceanic diazotroph database version 2 and elevated estimate of global oceanic N fixation

Z Shao, Y Xu, H Wang, W Luo, L Wang… - Earth System …, 2023 - essd.copernicus.org
Marine diazotrophs convert dinitrogen (N 2) gas into bioavailable nitrogen (N), supporting
life in the global ocean. In 2012, the first version of the global oceanic diazotroph database …

Biological nitrogen fixation detected under Antarctic sea ice

T Shiozaki, A Fujiwara, K Inomura, Y Hirose… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Nitrogen fixation is the primary source of reactive nitrogen in the ocean. Most ecological
models do not predict nitrogen fixation in the Antarctic Ocean because of the low availability …

Increased tropical South Pacific western boundary current transport over the past century

WH Chen, H Ren, JCH Chiang, YL Wang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The wind-driven meridional overturning circulation between the tropical and subtropical
oceans is important for regulating decadal-scale temperature fluctuations in the Pacific …

Microevolutionary patterns in ecotypes of the symbiotic cyanobacterium UCYN-A revealed from a Northwest Atlantic coastal time series

BM Robicheau, J Tolman, D Desai, J LaRoche - Science Advances, 2023 - science.org
UCYN-A is a globally important nitrogen-fixing symbiotic microbe often found in colder
regions and coastal areas where nitrogen fixation has been overlooked. We present a 3 …

Metabolic pathways inferred from a bacterial marker gene illuminate ecological changes across South Pacific frontal boundaries

EJ Raes, K Karsh, SLS Sow, M Ostrowski… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Global oceanographic monitoring initiatives originally measured abiotic essential ocean
variables but are currently incorporating biological and metagenomic sampling programs …

[HTML][HTML] Database of nitrification and nitrifiers in the global ocean

W Tang, BB Ward, M Beman, L Bristow… - Earth System …, 2023 - essd.copernicus.org
As a key biogeochemical pathway in the marine nitrogen cycle, nitrification (ammonia
oxidation and nitrite oxidation) converts the most reduced form of nitrogen–ammonium …

Light and depth dependency of nitrogen fixation by the non‐photosynthetic, symbiotic cyanobacterium UCYN‐A

MR Gradoville, AM Cabello, ST Wilson… - Environmental …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The symbiotic cyanobacterium UCYN‐A is one of the most globally abundant marine
dinitrogen (N2)‐fixers, but cultures have not been available and its biology and ecology are …

Quantifying N2 fixation and its contribution to export production near the Tonga-Kermadec Arc using nitrogen isotope budgets

HJ Forrer, S Bonnet, RK Thomas, O Grosso… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
The spatial distribution of marine di-nitrogen (N2) fixation informs our understanding of the
sensitivities of this process as well as the potential for this new nitrogen (N) source to drive …