Also microbes on the beach break down nitrogen from the sea

Also microbes on the beach break down nitrogen from the sea

Powered sand covers more than half of the sea floor of the continental shelf. There he acts as a huge filter and removes anthropogenic nitrogen that comes into the ocean via rivers and groundwater. © Fanni Aspetsberger

In the sea there are microorganisms that reduce nitrogen and thus reduce the nitrogen pollution of the oceans caused by humans. Now biologists have discovered that such microbes occur not only in the water, but also on sandy coasts. This is made possible by neighboring bacterial populations that consume the complete oxygen on the sand grains. The result

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