Dual isotopic evidence for nitrate sources and active biological transformation in the Northern South China Sea in summer

• Fajin Chen,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Guangdong Province Key Laboratory for Coastal Ocean Variation and Disaster Prediction, Guangdong Ocean University, Zhanjiang, China, College of Ocean and Meteorology, Guangdong Ocean University, Zhanjiang, China

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5775-911X

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• Xin Zhou,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliations Guangdong Province Key Laboratory for Coastal Ocean Variation and Disaster Prediction, Guangdong Ocean University, Zhanjiang, China, College of Ocean and Meteorology, Guangdong Ocean University, Zhanjiang, China

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• Qibin Lao,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Guangdong Province Key Laboratory for Coastal Ocean Variation and Disaster Prediction, Guangdong Ocean University, Zhanjiang, China, College of Ocean and Meteorology, Guangdong Ocean University, Zhanjiang, China, Marine Environmental Monitoring Centre of Beihai, State Oceanic Administration, Beihai, China

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• Shuangling Wang ,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision

  * E-mail: wishling@126.com

  Affiliations Guangdong Province Key Laboratory for Coastal Ocean Variation and Disaster Prediction, Guangdong Ocean University, Zhanjiang, China, College of Ocean and Meteorology, Guangdong Ocean University, Zhanjiang, China

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• Guangzhe Jin,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

  Affiliations Guangdong Province Key Laboratory for Coastal Ocean Variation and Disaster Prediction, Guangdong Ocean University, Zhanjiang, China, College of Ocean and Meteorology, Guangdong Ocean University, Zhanjiang, China

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2629-3337

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• Chunqing Chen,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliations Guangdong Province Key Laboratory for Coastal Ocean Variation and Disaster Prediction, Guangdong Ocean University, Zhanjiang, China, College of Ocean and Meteorology, Guangdong Ocean University, Zhanjiang, China

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• Qingmei Zhu

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliations Guangdong Province Key Laboratory for Coastal Ocean Variation and Disaster Prediction, Guangdong Ocean University, Zhanjiang, China, College of Ocean and Meteorology, Guangdong Ocean University, Zhanjiang, China

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