Cold seep systems in the South China Sea: An overview

D Feng, JW Qiu, Y Hu, J Peckmann, H Guan… - Journal of Asian Earth …, 2018 - Elsevier
Three decades after the discovery of cold seep systems, various sites of hydrocarbon
seepage have been found in the South China Sea (SCS). Over the past decade, these sites …

Anaerobic oxidation of methane: progress with an unknown process

K Knittel, A Boetius - Annual review of microbiology, 2009 - annualreviews.org
Methane is the most abundant hydrocarbon in the atmosphere, and it is an important
greenhouse gas, which has so far contributed an estimated 20% of postindustrial global …

Methane Index: A tetraether archaeal lipid biomarker indicator for detecting the instability of marine gas hydrates

YG Zhang, CL Zhang, XL Liu, L Li, KU Hinrichs… - Earth and Planetary …, 2011 - Elsevier
Gas hydrates represent one of the largest pools of readily exchangeable carbon on Earth's
surface. Releases of the greenhouse gas methane from hydrates are proposed to be …

Methane hydrate dissociation across the Oligocene–Miocene boundary

B Kim, YG Zhang - Nature Geoscience, 2022 - nature.com
Methane hydrate dissociation has long been considered as a mechanism for global carbon
cycle perturbations, climate change and even mass extinctions in Earth's history. However …

Anaerobic oxidation of methane: an “active” microbial process

M Cui, A Ma, H Qi, X Zhuang, G Zhuang - MicrobiologyOpen, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The anaerobic oxidation of methane (AOM) is an important sink of methane that plays a
significant role in global warming. AOM was first found to be coupled with sulfate reduction …

Micro‐aerobic bacterial methane oxidation in the chemocline and anoxic water column of deep south‐Alpine Lake Lugano (Switzerland)

J Blees, H Niemann, CB Wenk, J Zopfi… - Limnology and …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
We measured seasonal variations in the vertical distribution of methane concentration,
methane oxidation rates, and lipid biomarkers in the northern basin of Lake Lugano …

Changing redox conditions at cold seeps as revealed by authigenic carbonates from Alaminos Canyon, northern Gulf of Mexico

D Birgel, D Feng, HH Roberts, J Peckmann - Chemical Geology, 2011 - Elsevier
Anaerobic oxidation of methane in anoxic sediments at cold seeps often leads to formation
of authigenic carbonates close to the seafloor along continental margins. Recent work …

Autotrophy as a predominant mode of carbon fixation in anaerobic methane-oxidizing microbial communities

MY Kellermann, G Wegener, M Elvert… - Proceedings of the …, 2012 - National Acad Sciences
The methane-rich, hydrothermally heated sediments of the Guaymas Basin are inhabited by
thermophilic microorganisms, including anaerobic methane-oxidizing archaea (mainly …

Manganese/iron‐supported sulfate‐dependent anaerobic oxidation of methane by archaea in lake sediments

G Su, J Zopfi, H Yao, L Steinle… - Limnology and …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Anaerobic oxidation of methane (AOM) by methanotrophic archaea is an important sink of
this greenhouse gas in marine sediments. However, evidence for AOM in freshwater …

Assimilation of methane and inorganic carbon by microbial communities mediating the anaerobic oxidation of methane

G Wegener, H Niemann, M Elvert… - Environmental …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
The anaerobic oxidation of methane (AOM) is a major sink for methane on Earth and is
performed by consortia of methanotrophic archaea (ANME) and sulfate‐reducing bacteria …