Nitrogen in the Marine Environment

Edward J. Carpenter, Douglas G. Capone

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN:
  9780121602802
• eBook ISBN:
  9781483288291
• Topic: Biological Sciences
• Subtopic: Biology
• Index: Biological Sciences

Nitrogen in the Marine Environment provides information pertinent to the many aspects of the nitrogen cycle. This book presents the advances in ocean productivity research, with emphasis on the role of microbes in nitrogen transformations with excursions to higher trophic levels. Organized into 24 chapters, this book begins with an overview of the abundance and distribution of the various forms of nitrogen in a number of estuaries. This text then provides a comparison of the nitrogen cycling of various ecosystems within the marine environment. Other chapters consider chemical distributions and methodology as an aid to those entering the field. This book discusses as well the enzymology of the initial steps of inorganic nitrogen assimilation. The final chapter deals with the philosophy and application of modeling as an investigative method in basic research on nitrogen dynamics in coastal and open-ocean marine environments. This book is a valuable resource for plant biochemists, microbiologists, aquatic ecologists, and bacteriologists.

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Nitrogen in the Marine Environment
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Dedication
• CONTRIBUTORS
• FOREWORD
• PREFACE
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
• Chapter 1. THE DISTRIBUTIONS OF INORGANIC NITROGEN AND DISSOLVED AND PARTICULATE ORGANIC NITROGEN IN THE SEA
• Chapter 2. GASEOUS NITROGEN COMPOUNDS IN THE MARINE ENVIRONMENT
• Chapter 3. NITROGEN FIXATION BY MARINE OSCILLATORIA (TRICHODESMIUM) IN THE WORLD'S OCEANS
• Chapter 4. BENTHIC NITROGEN FIXATION
• Chapter 5. NITRIFICATION
• Chapter 6. DENITRIFICATION AND DISSIMILATORY NITRATE REDUCTION
• Chapter 7. KINETICS OF INORGANIC NITROGEN UPTAKE BY PHYTOPLANKTON
• Chapter 8. UPTAKE OF ORGANIC NITROGEN
• Chapter 9. PHYTOPLANKTON NITROGEN METABOLISM
• Chapter 10. NITROGENOUS NUTRITION OF MARINE INVERTEBRATES
• Chapter 11. NITROGEN EXCRETION BY MARINE ZOOPLANKTON
• Chapter 12. BENTHIC NITROGEN REGENERATION
• Chapter 13. MAN'S IMPACT ON THE MARINE NITROGEN CYCLE
• Chapter 14. NITROGEN CYCLING IN NEAR-SURFACE WATERS OF THE OPEN OCEAN
• Chapter 15. NITROGEN IN UPWELLING SYSTEMS
• Chapter 16. NITROGEN IN ESTUARINE AND COASTAL MARINE ECOSYSTEMS
• Chapter 17. NITROGEN IN SALT MARSH ECOSYSTEMS
• Chapter 18. SYMBIOSES
• Chapter 19. THE NITROGEN RELATIONSHIPS OF MARINE MACROALGAE
• Chapter 20. NITROGEN DETERMINATION IN SEAWATER
• Chapter 21. NITROGEN IN THE MARINE ENVIRONMENT IV.2 USE OF ISOTOPES
• Chapter 22. ASSAYS OF MICROBIAL NITROGEN TRANSFORMATIONS
• Chapter 23. ENZYMOLOGY OF NITROGEN ASSIMILATION
• Chapter 24. ECOSYSTEM SIMULATION MODELS: TOOLS FOR THE INVESTIGATION AND ANALYSIS OF NITROGEN DYNAMICS IN COASTAL AND MARINE ECOSYSTEMS
• INDEX