Production of N2through Anaerobic Ammonium Oxidation Coupled to Nitrate Reduction in Marine Sediments

Applied and Environmental Microbiology - Tập 68 Số 3 - Trang 1312-1318 - 2002
Bo Thamdrup1, Tage Dalsgaard2
1Danish Center for Earth System Science, Institute of Biology, University of Southern Denmark, DK-5230 Odense M
2National Environmental Research Institute, DK-8600 Silkeborg, Denmark

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ABSTRACTIn the global nitrogen cycle, bacterial denitrification is recognized as the only quantitatively important process that converts fixed nitrogen to atmospheric nitrogen gas, N2, thereby influencing many aspects of ecosystem function and global biogeochemistry. However, we have found that a process novel to the marine nitrogen cycle, anaerobic oxidation of ammonium coupled to nitrate reduction, contributes substantially to N2production in marine sediments. Incubations with15N-labeled nitrate or ammonium demonstrated that during this process, N2is formed through one-to-one pairing of nitrogen from nitrate and ammonium, which clearly separates the process from denitrification. Nitrite, which accumulated transiently, was likely the oxidant for ammonium, and the process is thus similar to the anammox process known from wastewater bioreactors. Anaerobic ammonium oxidation accounted for 24 and 67% of the total N2production at two typical continental shelf sites, whereas it was detectable but insignificant relative to denitrification in a eutrophic coastal bay. However, rates of anaerobic ammonium oxidation were higher in the coastal sediment than at the deepest site and the variability in the relative contribution to N2production between sites was related to large differences in rates of denitrification. Thus, the relative importance of anaerobic ammonium oxidation and denitrification in N2production appears to be regulated by the availability of their reduced substrates. By shunting nitrogen directly from ammonium to N2, anaerobic ammonium oxidation promotes the removal of fixed nitrogen in the oceans. The process can explain ammonium deficiencies in anoxic waters and sediments, and it may contribute significantly to oceanic nitrogen budgets.

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Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Tập 68 Số 3

1312-1318

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