The ecology of methane in streams and rivers: patterns, controls, and global significance

EH Stanley, NJ Casson, ST Christel… - Ecological …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Streams and rivers can substantially modify organic carbon (OC) inputs from terrestrial
landscapes, and much of this processing is the result of microbial respiration. While carbon …

Potential role of submerged macrophytes for oxic methane production in aquatic ecosystems

S Hilt, HP Grossart, DF McGinnis… - Limnology and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Methane (CH4) from aquatic ecosystems contributes to about half of total global CH4
emissions to the atmosphere. Until recently, aquatic biogenic CH4 production was …

Aerobic bacterial methane synthesis

Q Wang, A Alowaifeer, P Kerner… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Reports of biogenic methane (CH4) synthesis associated with a range of organisms have
steadily accumulated in the literature. This has not happened without controversy and in …

Oxic water column methanogenesis as a major component of aquatic CH4 fluxes

MJ Bogard, PA Del Giorgio, L Boutet… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Methanogenesis has traditionally been assumed to occur only in anoxic environments, yet
there is mounting, albeit indirect, evidence of methane (CH4) production in oxic marine and …

Evaluation of the methane paradox in four adjacent pre-alpine lakes across a trophic gradient

C Ordóñez, T DelSontro, T Langenegger… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Contrasting the paradigm that methane is only produced in anoxic conditions, recent
discoveries show that oxic methane production (OMP, aka the methane paradox) occurs in …

Multiple sources of aerobic methane production in aquatic ecosystems include bacterial photosynthesis

E Perez-Coronel, J Michael Beman - Nature Communications, 2022 - nature.com
Aquatic ecosystems are globally significant sources of the greenhouse gas methane to the
atmosphere. Until recently, methane production was thought to be a strictly anaerobic …

Full-scale evaluation of methane production under oxic conditions in a mesotrophic lake

D Donis, S Flury, A Stöckli, JE Spangenberg… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Oxic lake surface waters are frequently oversaturated with methane (CH4). The contribution
to the global CH4 cycle is significant, thus leading to an increasing number of studies and …

Methane production in oxic lake waters potentially increases aquatic methane flux to air

KW Tang, DF McGinnis, D Ionescu… - … science & technology …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Active methane production in oxygenated lake waters challenges the long-standing
paradigm that microbial methane production occurs only under anoxic conditions and forces …

Magnitude and drivers of oxic methane production in small temperate lakes

SD Thottathil, PCJ Reis, YT Prairie - Environmental Science & …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Methanogenesis is traditionally considered as a strictly anaerobic process. Recent evidence
suggests instead that the ubiquitous methane (CH4) oversaturation found in freshwater …

Contribution of oxic methane production to surface methane emission in lakes and its global importance

M Günthel, D Donis, G Kirillin, D Ionescu… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Recent discovery of oxic methane production in sea and lake waters, as well as wetlands,
demands re-thinking of the global methane cycle and re-assessment of the contribution of …