A model discriminating denitrification and dissimilatory nitrate reduction to ammonium in a temperate estuarine sediment

Abstract

in terms of the number of processes considered, and yet their underlying formulae for any particular process are the same. In this respect, the nitrogen cycle in all of these models consists of nitrate and ammonium, denitrification and nitrification. Intermediate nitrogenous compounds are neglected mostly due to lack of adequate data. In all of the models mentioned so far, nitrate reduction is treated as denitrification (whether directly coupled to ammonium oxidation as in However, the alternative