Journal
WATER RESEARCH
Volume 144, Issue -, Pages 332-340Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2018.07.053
Keywords
Sediment incubations; Methanotrophy; Methanogenesis; Electron acceptors; Stable isotopes
Funding
- NSF [ARC-1304823, ARC-1500931]
- Leibniz Association within the project Climate driven changes in biodiversity of microbiota -TemBi [SAW-2011-IGB-2]
- Leibniz Association within the project Aquatic boundaries and linkages - Aqualink [SAW-2012-IGB-4167]
- Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologia, Mexico [233369, 232083]
- Comision Nacional Cientifica y Tecnologica, Chile (Fondecyt Project) [11160391]
- Directorate For Geosciences
- Office of Polar Programs (OPP) [1304823] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Anaerobic oxidation of methane (AOM) is a microbial process that consumes dissolved methane (CH4) in anoxic sediments and soils and mitigates CH4 release to the atmosphere. The degree to which AOM limits global biospheric CH4 emissions is not fully understood. In marine sediments, where the process was first described, AOM is responsible for oxidizing >90% of the CH4 produced. More recently, AOM has been observed in soils, peatlands, and freshwater ecosystems. In lakes, where sediment anoxia, organic carbon turnover, and CH4 production are common, AOM is not well studied but could represent a significant CH4 sink and constraint on emissions. Here, we present evidence for the occurrence of AOM in the sediment of thirteen lakes that span a global climatic and trophic gradient. We further quantified and modeled AOM patterns and studied potential microbial controls of AOM using laboratory incubations of sediment and stable isotope measurements in three of the thirteen lakes. We demonstrate that AOM is widespread in freshwater lake sediments and accounts for 29%-34% (95% confidence interval) of the mean total CH4 produced in surface and near-surface lake sediments. (C) 2018 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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