Spatial variability of sediment methane production and methanogen communities within a eutrophic reservoir: Importance of organic matter source and quantity

ME Berberich, JJ Beaulieu, TL Hamilton… - Limnology and …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Freshwater reservoirs are an important source of the greenhouse gas methane (CH4) to the
atmosphere, but global emission estimates are poorly constrained (13.3–52.5 Tg C yr− 1) …

Microbial methanogenesis in the sulfate-reducing zone of surface sediments traversing the Peruvian margin

J Maltby, S Sommer, AW Dale, T Treude - Biogeosciences, 2016 - bg.copernicus.org
We studied the concurrence of methanogenesis and sulfate reduction in surface sediments
(0–25 cm below sea floor) at six stations (70, 145, 253, 407, 990 and 1024 m) along the …

Oxygen availability is a major factor in determining the composition of microbial communities involved in methane oxidation

ME Hernandez, DAC Beck, ME Lidstrom… - PeerJ, 2015 - peerj.com
We have previously observed that methane supplied to lake sediment microbial
communities as a substrate not only causes a response by bona fide methanotrophic …

pmoA-Based Analysis of Methanotrophs in a Littoral Lake Sediment Reveals a Diverse and Stable Community in a Dynamic Environment

M Pester, MW Friedrich, B Schink… - Applied and …, 2004 - Am Soc Microbiol
Diversity and community structure of aerobic methane-oxidizing bacteria in the littoral
sediment of Lake Constance was investigated by cloning analysis and terminal restriction …

[HTML][HTML] Aerobic and anaerobic methanotrophic communities associated with methane hydrates exposed on the seafloor: a high-pressure sampling and stable isotope …

DH Case, A Ijiri, Y Morono, P Tavormina… - Frontiers in …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
High-pressure (HP) environments represent the largest volumetric majority of habitable
space for microorganisms on the planet, including the deep-sea and subsurface biosphere …

Diverse methylotrophic methanogenic archaea cause high methane emissions from seagrass meadows

S Schorn, S Ahmerkamp, E Bullock… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Marine coastlines colonized by seagrasses are a net source of methane to the atmosphere.
However, methane emissions from these environments are still poorly constrained, and the …

Methanotrophic populations in estuarine sediment from Newport Bay, California

IR McDonald, K Smith, ME Lidstrom - FEMS microbiology letters, 2005 - academic.oup.com
Methanotrophic populations have been studied in Newport Bay estuary, Southern California.
Environmental clone banks were generated for 16S rRNA genes specific to methanotrophs …

[HTML][HTML] Aerobic methanotrophic communities at the Red Sea brine-seawater interface

RZ Abdallah, M Adel, A Ouf, A Sayed… - Frontiers in …, 2014 - frontiersin.org
The central rift of the Red Sea contains 25 brine pools with different physicochemical
conditions, dictating the diversity and abundance of the microbial community. Three of these …

Methanogenesis in marine sediments

JG Ferry, DJ Lessner - Annals of the New York Academy of …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
The anaerobic conversion of complex organic matter to CH4 is an essential link in the global
carbon cycle. In freshwater anaerobic environments, the organic matter is decomposed to …

Methane-oxidizing seawater microbial communities from an Arctic shelf

C Uhlig, JB Kirkpatrick, S D'Hondt, B Loose - Biogeosciences, 2018 - bg.copernicus.org
Marine microbial communities can consume dissolved methane before it can escape to the
atmosphere and contribute to global warming. Seawater over the shallow Arctic shelf is …