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ISME JOURNAL
Volume 11, Issue 10, Pages 2356-2367Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2017.97
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- NSF [OCE-1029951, OCE-1356043]
- Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean (JISAO) under NOAA [NA10OAR4320148, NA15OAR4320063, 2016-01-46]
- Division Of Ocean Sciences
- Directorate For Geosciences [1356056] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Biological nitrogen fixation (BNF) was investigated above and within the oxygen-depleted waters of the oxygen-minimum zone of the Eastern Tropical North Pacific Ocean. BNF rates were estimated using an isotope tracer method that overcame the uncertainty of the conventional bubble method by directly measuring the tracer enrichment during the incubations. Highest rates of BNF (similar to 4 nM day(-1)) occurred in coastal surface waters and lowest detectable rates (similar to 0.2 nM day(-1)) were found in the anoxic region of offshore stations. BNF was not detectable in most samples from oxygen-depleted waters. The composition of the N-2-fixing assemblage was investigated by sequencing of nifH genes. The diazotrophic assemblage in surface waters contained mainly Proteobacterial sequences (Cluster I nifH), while both Proteobacterial sequences and sequences with high identities to those of anaerobic microbes characterized as Clusters III and IV type nifH sequences were found in the anoxic waters. Our results indicate modest input of N through BNF in oxygen-depleted zones mainly due to the activity of proteobacterial diazotrophs.
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