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 …

Heterotrophic nitrification and aerobic denitrification process: Promising but a long way to go in the wastewater treatment

H Xi, X Zhou, M Arslan, Z Luo, J Wei, Z Wu… - Science of The Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
The traditional biological nitrogen removal (BNR) follows the conventional scheme of
sequential nitrification and denitrification. In recent years, novel processes such as …

Global nitrogen cycle: critical enzymes, organisms, and processes for nitrogen budgets and dynamics

X Zhang, BB Ward, DM Sigman - Chemical reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
Nitrogen (N) is used in many of life's fundamental biomolecules, and it is also a participant in
environmental redox chemistry. Biogeochemical processes control the amount and form of N …

Diagnosis of soil contamination using microbiological indices: A review on heavy metal pollution

J Tang, J Zhang, L Ren, Y Zhou, J Gao, L Luo… - Journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Heavy metal contamination of soil has become a serious global issue because of their
persistence in the environment and the non-biodegradable nature leading to their …

Ecology and physiology of anaerobic ammonium oxidizing bacteria

M Oshiki, H Satoh, S Okabe - Environmental microbiology, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Anaerobic ammonium oxidation (anammox) is a microbial process in which NH4+ is
oxidized to N2 gas with NO2− as an electron acceptor. The anammox process is mediated …

Geochemistry of oceanic anoxic events

HC Jenkyns - Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Oceanic anoxic events (OAEs) record profound changes in the climatic and
paleoceanographic state of the planet and represent major disturbances in the global …

Performance of anammox processes for wastewater treatment: a critical review on effects of operational conditions and environmental stresses

S Cho, C Kambey, VK Nguyen - Water, 2019 - mdpi.com
The anaerobic ammonium oxidation (anammox) process is well-known as a low-energy
consuming and eco-friendly technology for treating nitrogen-rich wastewater. Although the …

How to make a living from anaerobic ammonium oxidation

B Kartal, NM de Almeida, WJ Maalcke… - FEMS microbiology …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Anaerobic ammonium-oxidizing (anammox) bacteria primarily grow by the oxidation of
ammonium coupled to nitrite reduction, using CO2 as the sole carbon source. Although they …

Microbial ecology of the dark ocean above, at, and below the seafloor

BN Orcutt, JB Sylvan, NJ Knab… - … and molecular biology …, 2011 - Am Soc Microbiol
The majority of life on Earth—notably, microbial life—occurs in places that do not receive
sunlight, with the habitats of the oceans being the largest of these reservoirs. Sunlight …

Microbial ecology of expanding oxygen minimum zones

JJ Wright, KM Konwar, SJ Hallam - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2012 - nature.com
Dissolved oxygen concentration is a crucial organizing principle in marine ecosystems. As
oxygen levels decline, energy is increasingly diverted away from higher trophic levels into …