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Monthly measurements revealed a high variability for dissolved inorganic carbon and nitrogen, with the following strong parallelism: highest alkalinity and NH<sub>4</sub><sup>+</sup> were associated with lowest NO<sub>3</sub><sup>&minus;</sup> and oxygen and <em>vice-versa</em>. In river water incubations, nitrification lowered the alkalinity whereas denitrification raised it; in an anoxic, NO<sub>3</sub><sup>&minus;</sup>-free incubation an increase of alkalinity was observed, partially due to ammonification. A stoichiometric analysis, taking into account the amount of protons produced or consumed by each process involving nitrogen, revealed that monthly variations of NO<sub>3</sub><sup>&minus;</sup> and NH<sub>4</sub><sup>+</sup> with ammonification, nitrification and denitrification could explain the 28 and 62% alkalinity variations at all stations, except one. 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