The atmosphere has recently been recognized as a major source of energy sustaining life.
Diverse aerobic bacteria oxidize the three most abundant reduced trace gases in the …

Among fundamental research questions in subterranean biology, the role of subterranean
microbiomes playing in key elements cycling is a top-priority one. Karst caves are widely …

Caves are typified by their permanent darkness and a shortage of nutrients. Consequently,
bacteria play an important role in sustaining such subsurface ecosystems by dominating …

Atmospheric methane oxidizing bacteria (atmMOB) constitute the sole biological sink for
atmospheric methane. Still, the physiological basis allowing atmMOB to grow on air is not …

Aerated topsoils are important sinks for atmospheric methane (CH4) via oxidation by CH4‐
oxidizing bacteria (MOB). However, intensified management of grasslands and forests may …

Karst ecosystems are widely distributed around the world, accounting for 15–20% of the
global land area. However, knowledge on microbial ecology of these systems does not …

The geological role of microorganisms has been widely studied in the karst cave ecosystem.
However, microbial interactions and ecological functions in such a dark, humid, and …

In the Arctic, the spatiotemporal variation of net methane uptake in upland soils depends on
unresolved interactive controls between edaphic and microbial factors not yet included in …

Upland soil clusters alpha and gamma (USCα and USCγ) are considered a major biological
sink of atmospheric methane and are often detected in forest and grassland soils. These …

Karst caves are usually considered as natural laboratories to study pristine microbiomes in
subsurface biosphere. However, effects of the increasingly detected nitrate in underground …