River Eden estuary, Fife, Scotland

Bacteria taxonomy-related biomass expressed as carbon per unit volume of the water column; Bacteria taxonomic abundance in water bodies; Bacteria generic abundance in water bodies; Bacteria generic abundance in sediment; Bacterial growth; Particulate total and organic nitrogen concentrations in the water column; Nitrate concentration parameters in the water column; Dissolved inorganic nitrogen concentration in the water column; Dissolved total and organic nitrogen concentrations in the water column; Bacterial production in the water column; Nitrite concentration parameters in the water column; Nitrification and denitrification rates in water bodies; Bacteria taxonomic abundance in sediment; Bacterial consumption in the water column; Nitrogen concentrations in sediment; Nitrogen concentrations in suspended particulate material

Discrete water samplers; autoanalysers; nutrient analysers

Nitrogen cycling parameters and bacterial numbers were collected to study the rates of sediment nitrification and denitrification in nutrient lenses in the sediments of the River Eden estuary (Fife, Scotland)

Owens, N.J.P. and Stewart, W.D.P. (1983) Enteromorpha and the cycling of nitrogen in a small estuary., Estuarine Coastal Shelf Science, 17(3): 287-296.

Plymouth Marine Laboratory
Prospect Place The Hoe
Plymouth
England
PL1 3DH
United Kingdom