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http://dx.doi.org/10.7850/jkso.2007.12.3.239

Implications of Deep Nitrite in the Ulleung Basin  

Lee, Tong-Sup (Division of Earth Environmental System, Pusan National University)
Kim, Il-Nam (Division of Earth Environmental System, Pusan National University)
Kang, Dong-Jin (Research Institute of Oceanography, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Seoul National University)
Kim, Dong-Seon (Marine Environment Research Department, KORDI)
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The Sea:JOURNAL OF THE KOREAN SOCIETY OF OCEANOGRAPHY / v.12, no.3, 2007 , pp. 239-243 More about this Journal
Abstract
Presence of bottom water nitrite in the Ulleung Basin was remarkable because it is totally unexpected phenomenon at such an oxygen-rich environment. Yet no scientific explanation was set forward. Of several plausible explanations, following the Ockham's suggestion, a leaching of nitrite as an intermediate product of denitrification in the top sediment at the slope is most agreeable to given environmental settings. There seems no complementary process to make up the loss of N in the Ulleung Basin, which seems contribute to the characteristically low N:P ratio in the deep waters. If warming proceeds that weakens the thermohaline circulation, a current biological pump may stall and the phytoplankton assemblage might replaced drastically. If so this will pause an utmost challenge to the ecosystem of the East/Japan Sea. Still there remains a contradictory sedimentary signature that requests further explanation regarding the N (or organic C)-cycle such as extraordinarily high organic carbon content despite abundant oxidants in the overlying waters.
Keywords
Nitrite; Denitrification; N-limited; Ulleung Basin;
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