Denitrification and nutrient assimilation on a restored oyster reef

At a restored reef site and a control site in the Choptank River, Maryland, USA, we partially quantified the effect of oyster reef restoration on the removal of nutrients from the water column by determining seasonal fluxes of oxygen (O 2 ), ammonium (NH 4 + ), combined nitrate and nitrite (NO 2+ 3 ... View More