Dinitrogen fixation by surface peat and Sphagnum in an ombrotrophic bog
- 1 May 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Canadian Science Publishing in Canadian Journal of Botany
- Vol. 60 (5) , 538-543
- https://doi.org/10.1139/b82-072
Abstract
Annual dinitrogen fixation at the surface of ombrotrophic Thoreau's Bog in eastern Massachusetts, U.S.A., is estimated at 1.0 g N∙m2. The rates of acetylene reduction are lower but still significant in the dark, suggesting that fixation is carried out both photosynthetically and heterotrophically. The ratio 15N2 fixed: C2H2 reduced was 1 mol: 3.5 mol in in vitro calibration experiments. Dinitrogen fixation is ecologically important in this bog as it exceeds the only other known input of nitrogen, namely deposition of NO3− and NH4+ in bulk precipitation.This publication has 8 references indexed in Scilit:
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