Extremophilic microorganisms often produce novel bioactive compounds to survive under
harsh environmental conditions. Exopolysaccharides (EPSs), a constitutive part of bacterial …

Highlights•Antarctic as natural laboratory for climate change studies.•Novel multiscale and
multiomics designs for the assessment of climate change effects•Application of in situ …

Freshwater ecosystems are important contributors to the global greenhouse gas budget and
a comprehensive assessment of their role in the context of global warming is essential …

Abstract Knowledge about biodiversity changes during transitions from glacial landscape to
lake formation is limited to contemporary studies. Here, we combined analyses of lithology …

Although coastal sediments are major contributors to the production of atmospheric
methane, the effects of environmental conditions on methanogenesis and the community of …

Marine free-living (FL) and plankton-associated prokaryotes (plankton-microbiota) are at the
basis of trophic webs and play crucial roles in the transfer and cycling of nutrients, organic …

In this study we aimed to understand the impact of medium–low temperatures on the two
main steps that usually comprise the electromethanogenesis (EM) process: electrothrophic …

Freshwater lakes and reservoirs cover a small fraction of the Earth, however their emission
of the greenhouse gas methane (CH4) from the sediment to the atmosphere is …

Anaerobic digestion (AD) is an attractive bioprocess for waste treatment and energy
recovery through methane-rich biogas production. Under temperate to cold climate, the …

Abstract Base Mine Lake (BML) was the first commercial-scale demonstration oil sands pit
lake established in northern Alberta, Canada. Recent studies indicate that ebullition …