The topmost 1–2 cm of cyanobacteria- (free of symbiotic fungi) and lichen- (composite organisms consisting of a symbiotic relationship between a fungus and a photosynthetic partner, usually either ...

Human activities add large quantities of nitrogen to the environment, much of which gets washed into streams and rivers. These waterways transport some of that nitrogen to the oceans, but they also ...

A research group led by Prof. Wu Jinshui from the Institute of Subtropical Agriculture (ISA) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences isolated a novel heterotrophic nitrification-aerobic denitrification ...

Marine scientists have quantified potentially denitrifying bacteria in the oyster gut and shell, with important implications for efforts to reduce nutrient levels in coastal waters through oyster ...