Biosensor Determination of the Microscale Distribution of Nitrate, Nitrate Assimilation, Nitrification, and Denitrification in a Diatom-Inhabited Freshwater Sediment

AUTOR(ES)

Lorenzen, Jan

FONTE

American Society for Microbiology

RESUMO

High-resolution NO3− profiles in freshwater sediment covered with benthic diatoms were obtained with a new microscale NO3− biosensor characterized by absence of interference from chemical species other than NO2− and N2O. Analysis of the microprofiles obtained indicated no nitrification during darkness, high rates of nitrification and a tight coupling between nitrification and denitrification during illumination, and substantial rates of NO3− assimilation during illumination. Nitrification during darkness could be induced by purging the bulk water with O2 gas, indicating that the stimulatory effect on nitrification by illumination was caused by algal production of O2. NH4+ addition did not stimulate nitrification during darkness when O2 was restricted to the upper 1-mm layer, and there was thus a low nitrification potential in the permanently oxic top 1 mm of the sediment.

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