Nitrogen loss on sandy shores: The big impact of tiny anoxic pockets

ScienceDaily
Jun 2, 2025, 3:53 pm183 ptsTop
Some microbes living on sand grains use up all the oxygen around them. Their neighbors, left without oxygen, make the best of it: They use nitrate in the surrounding water for denitrification -- a process hardly possible when oxygen is present. This denitrification in sandy sediments in well-oxygenated waters…

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