Biologically produced methane as a renewable energy source

DE Holmes, JA Smith - Advances in applied microbiology, 2016 - Elsevier
Methanogens are a unique group of strictly anaerobic archaea that are more metabolically
diverse than previously thought. Traditionally, it was thought that methanogens could only …

The biogeochemistry of ferruginous lakes and past ferruginous oceans

ED Swanner, N Lambrecht, C Wittkop, C Harding… - Earth-Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
Anoxic and iron-rich (ferruginous) conditions prevailed in the ocean under the low-oxygen
atmosphere that occurred through most of the Archean Eon. While euxinic conditions (ie …

Massive and prolonged deep carbon emissions associated with continental rifting

H Lee, JD Muirhead, TP Fischer, CJ Ebinger… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Carbon from Earth's interior is thought to be released to the atmosphere mostly via
degassing of CO2 from active volcanoes,,,. CO2 can also escape along faults away from …

LakeMIP Kivu: evaluating the representation of a large, deep tropical lake by a set of one-dimensional lake models

WIM Thiery, VM Stepanenko, X Fang… - Tellus A: Dynamic …, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
The African great lakes are of utmost importance for the local economy (fishing), as well as
being essential to the survival of the local people. During the past decades, these lakes …

Water column dynamics control nitrite-dependent anaerobic methane oxidation by Candidatus “Methylomirabilis” in stratified lake basins

G Su, MF Lehmann, J Tischer, Y Weber… - The ISME …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
We investigated microbial methane oxidation in the water column of two connected but
hydrodynamically contrasting basins of Lake Lugano, Switzerland. Both basins accumulate …

Illuminating microbial dark matter in meromictic Sakinaw Lake

EA Gies, KM Konwar, JT Beatty… - Applied and …, 2014 - Am Soc Microbiol
Despite recent advances in metagenomic and single-cell genomic sequencing to investigate
uncultivated microbial diversity and metabolic potential, fundamental questions related to …

Denitrification, anaerobic ammonium oxidation, and dissimilatory nitrate reduction to ammonium in an East African Great Lake (Lake Kivu)

FAE Roland, F Darchambeau… - Limnology and …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
We investigated anaerobic nitrogen (N) cycling in the water column of Lake Kivu, a deep
meromictic tropical lake in East Africa. Data were collected at one station in the Northern …

Photoferrotrophy: remains of an ancient photosynthesis in modern environments

A Camacho, XA Walter, A Picazo, J Zopfi - Frontiers in microbiology, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Photoferrotrophy, the process by which inorganic carbon is fixed into organic matter using
light as an energy source and reduced iron [Fe (II)] as an electron donor, has been proposed …

Oxidative mitigation of aquatic methane emissions in large Amazonian rivers

HO Sawakuchi, D Bastviken… - Global change …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The flux of methane (CH 4) from inland waters to the atmosphere has a profound impact on
global atmospheric greenhouse gas (GHG) levels, and yet, strikingly little is known about the …

Enigmatic persistence of aerobic methanotrophs in oxygen-limiting freshwater habitats

PCJ Reis, JM Tsuji, C Weiblen, SL Schiff… - The ISME …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Methanotrophic bacteria mitigate emissions of the potent greenhouse gas methane (CH4)
from a variety of anthropogenic and natural sources, including freshwater lakes, which are …