denitrify - remove nitrogen from; "Denitrify the soil"
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Similarly, among gram-positive bacteria (such as Bacillus), a few halophilic archaeal microorganisms (e.g., Haloferax denitrificans) are able to denitrify atmospheric nitrogen under anoxic conditions [30].
Linking [N.sub.2]O emission from biochar-amended composting process to the abundance of denitrify (nirK and nosZ) bacteria community, Amb Express 6(37): 1-9.
This is an important finding because unlike groundwater N[O.sub.3.sup.-]-N, which may denitrify in organic-rich sediments adjacent to surface waters (Robertson et al., 1991), groundwater ON will not denitrify in sediments before discharge to the estuary and thus may contribute to the surface water TN loading.