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 …

A metagenomic insight into freshwater methane-utilizing communities and evidence for cooperation between the Methylococcaceae and the Methylophilaceae

DAC Beck, MG Kalyuzhnaya, S Malfatti, SG Tringe… - PeerJ, 2013 - peerj.com
We investigated microbial communities active in methane oxidation in lake sediment at
different oxygen tensions and their response to the addition of nitrate, via stable isotope …

Activity and abundance of methanotrophic bacteria in a northern mountainous gradient of wetlands

S Jensen, HMP Siljanen… - Environmental …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Methane uptake and diversity of methanotrophic bacteria was investigated across six
hydrologically connected wetlands in a mountainous forest landscape upstream of lake …

Anaerobic methanotrophy is stimulated by graphene oxide in a brackish urban canal sediment

KAJ Pelsma, NAGM van Helmond… - Environmental …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Anthropogenic activities are influencing aquatic environments through increased chemical
pollution and thus are greatly affecting the biogeochemical cycling of elements. This has …

MCycDB: a curated database for comprehensively profiling methane cycling processes of environmental microbiomes

L Qian, X Yu, J Zhou, H Gu, J Ding… - Molecular Ecology …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Methane is a critical greenhouse gas with significant impacts on environmental and global
change. However, CH4 cycling processes and coupling mechanisms with the …

Anthropogenic and environmental constraints on the microbial methane cycle in coastal sediments

AJ Wallenius, P Dalcin Martins, CP Slomp… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Large amounts of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, are produced in anoxic sediments by
methanogenic archaea. Nonetheless, over 90% of the produced methane is oxidized via …

Activity and diversity of methanotrophic bacteria at methane seeps in eastern Lake Constance sediments

JS Deutzmann, S Wörner, B Schink - Applied and Environmental …, 2011 - Am Soc Microbiol
The activity and community structure of aerobic methanotrophic communities were
investigated at methane seeps (pockmarks) in the littoral and profundal zones of an …

Structural and functional response of methane‐consuming microbial communities to different flooding regimes in riparian soils

PLE Bodelier, MJ Bär‐Gilissen… - Ecology and …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Climate change will lead to more extreme precipitation and associated increase of flooding
events of soils. This can turn these soils from a sink into a source of atmospheric methane …

Methane release from sediment seeps to the atmosphere is counteracted by highly active Methylococcaceae in the water column of deep oligotrophic Lake Constance

M Bornemann, I Bussmann, L Tichy… - FEMS microbiology …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Methane emissions from freshwater environments contribute substantially to global warming
but are under strong control of aerobic methane-oxidizing bacteria. Recently discovered …

Identification of microbial communities involved in the methane cycle of a freshwater meromictic lake

C Biderre-Petit, D Jézéquel… - FEMS Microbiology …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Lake Pavin is a meromictic crater lake located in the French Massif Central area. In this
ecosystem, most methane (CH4) produced in high quantity in the anoxic bottom layers, and …