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Uptake of dissolved sulfide by Spartina alterniflora: evidence from natural sulfur isotope abundance ratios

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Date Issued:
1982
Title: Uptake of dissolved sulfide by Spartina alterniflora: evidence from natural sulfur isotope abundance ratios.
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Name(s): Carlson, Paul R.
Forrest, J.
Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Article
Date Issued: 1982
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science
Place of Publication: New York
Physical Form: pdf
Extent: 5 p.
Language(s): English
Identifier: FA00007057 (IID)
Note(s): The difference in the stable sulfur isotope ratios of sulfate and sulfide in marsh pore water was used to verify the uptake of hydrogen sulfide by the salt marsh cordgrass Spartina alterniflora in a North Carolina salt marsh. Most of the plant sulfur derived from pore-water sulfide was recovered as sulfate, an indication that the sulfide had been oxidized within the plant. The analysis of the sulfure isotope ratios of other coastal halophytes may be a useful technique for determining whether sulfide is taken up by plants in saline wetlands.
Florida Atlantic University. Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute contribution 262
This manuscript is an author version with the final publication available and may be cited as: Carlson, Jr. P. R., & Forrest, J. (1982).Uptake of dissolved sulfide by Spartina alterniflora: evidence from natural sulfur isotope abundance ratios. Science, 216, 633-635.
Subject(s): Spartina alterniflora
Salt marshes
Sulfides
Sulfate
Pore water
Sulfur--Isotopes
Halophytes
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