Aerobic denitrification as N2O source in microbial communities
N. Roothans, M. Gabriels, M. Pabst, M. C. M. van Loosdrecht, M. Laureni
The paper quantifies aerobic denitrification's contribution to N2O emissions in microbiomes with frequent oxic/anoxic transitions, showing it can respire a third of organic substrate with nitrate and produce up to a quarter of aerobically respired nitrate as N2O.
bioRxiv · Jun 14, 2023Microbiology