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Database of nitrification and nitrifiers in the global ocean
Department of Geosciences, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
Bess B. Ward
Department of Geosciences, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
Michael Beman
Life and Environmental Sciences, University of California, Merced, CA, USA
Laura Bristow
Department of Marine Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
Darren Clark
Somerset Scientific Services, Westpark 26, Chelston, Wellington, Somerset TA21 9AD, UK
Sarah Fawcett
Department of Oceanography, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch 7701, South Africa
Claudia Frey
Department of Environmental Science, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
François Fripiat
Department of Geosciences, Environment and Society, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
Gerhard J. Herndl
Department of Functional and Evolutionary Ecology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Mhlangabezi Mdutyana
Department of Oceanography, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch 7701, South Africa
Fabien Paulot
Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Princeton, NJ, USA
Xuefeng Peng
School of Earth, Ocean and Environment, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208, USA
Alyson E. Santoro
Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
Takuhei Shiozaki
Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, The University of Tokyo, Chiba, Japan
Eva Sintes
Instituto Español de Oceanografía-CSIC, Centro Oceanográfico de Baleares, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
Charles Stock
Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Princeton, NJ, USA
Department of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford, CA, USA
Xianhui S. Wan
Department of Geosciences, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
Min N. Xu
State Key Laboratory of Marine Resource Utilization in South China Sea, Hainan University, Haikou 570228, China
Yao Zhang
State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361101, China
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Nitrification and nitrifiers play an important role in marine nitrogen and carbon cycles by converting ammonium to nitrite and nitrate. Nitrification could affect microbial community structure, marine productivity, and the production of nitrous oxide – a powerful greenhouse gas. We introduce the newly constructed database of nitrification and nitrifiers in the marine water column and guide future research efforts in field observations and model development of nitrification.
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