Nitrous oxide producing heterotrophic bacteria from the water column of the central Baltic: abundance and molecular identification

Abstract

The water column of the Gotland Deep, a basin with anoxic deep water, was investigated for its denitrifying microflora in comparison with various chemical, hydrographical and microbiological parameters including in situ denitrification rates. S. putrefaciens is considered the most abundant culturable denitrifier of the low oxygen water and the oxic-anoxic interface of the Gotland Deep. -from Authors