Importance of hydrogenotrophic, aceticlastic and methylotrophic methanogenesis for methane production in terrestrial, aquatic and other anoxic environments: a mini …

R Conrad - Pedosphere, 2020 - Elsevier
Microbial methanogenesis is a major source of the greenhouse gas methane (CH 4). It is the
final step in the anaerobic degradation of organic matter when inorganic electron acceptors …

Greenhouse gas emissions from salt-affected soils: Mechanistic understanding of interplay factors and reclamation approaches

RK Fagodiya, SK Malyan, D Singh, A Kumar, RK Yadav… - Sustainability, 2022 - mdpi.com
Salt-affected soils contain high levels of soluble salts (saline soil) and exchangeable sodium
(alkali soil). Globally, about 932 million ha (Mha), including 831 Mha of agricultural land, is …

Microbial drivers of methane emissions from unrestored industrial salt ponds

J Zhou, SM Theroux, CP Bueno de Mesquita… - The ISME …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Wetlands are important carbon (C) sinks, yet many have been destroyed and converted to
other uses over the past few centuries, including industrial salt making. A renewed focus on …

Multiple evidence for methylotrophic methanogenesis as the dominant methanogenic pathway in hypersaline sediments from the Orca Basin, Gulf of Mexico

GC Zhuang, FJ Elling, LM Nigro, V Samarkin… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2016 - Elsevier
Among the most extreme habitats on Earth, dark, deep, anoxic brines host unique microbial
ecosystems that remain largely unexplored. As the terminal step of anaerobic degradation of …

Methanogenesis produces strong 13C enrichment in stromatolites of Lagoa Salgada, Brazil: a modern analogue for Palaeo‐/Neoproterozoic stromatolites?

D Birgel, P Meister, R Lundberg, TD Horath… - …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Holocene stromatolites characterized by unusually positive inorganic δ13 CPDB values (ie
up to+ 16‰) are present in Lagoa Salgada, a seasonally brackish to hypersaline lagoon …

Diversity and stratification of archaea in a hypersaline microbial mat

CE Robertson, JR Spear, JK Harris… - Applied and …, 2009 - Am Soc Microbiol
ABSTRACT The Guerrero Negro (GN) hypersaline microbial mats have become one focus
for biogeochemical studies of stratified ecosystems. The GN mats are found beneath several …

Dynamics of archaea at fine spatial scales in Shark Bay mat microbiomes

HL Wong, PT Visscher, RA White III, DL Smith… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
The role of archaea in microbial mats is poorly understood. Delineating the spatial
distribution of archaea with mat depth will enable resolution of putative niches in these …

[PDF][PDF] Methanogens and methanogenesis in hypersaline environments

TJ McGenity, DY Sorokin - Handbook of hydrocarbon and lipid …, 2010 - researchgate.net
Methanogenesis is controlled by redox potential and permanency of anaerobic conditions;
and in hypersaline environments, the high concentration of terminal electron acceptors …

Oligonucleotide primers, probes and molecular methods for the environmental monitoring of methanogenic archaea

T Narihiro, Y Sekiguchi - Microbial biotechnology, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
For the identification and quantification of methanogenic archaea (methanogens) in
environmental samples, various oligonucleotide probes/primers targeting phylogenetic …

Coastal microbial mat diversity along a natural salinity gradient

H Bolhuis, L Fillinger, LJ Stal - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
The North Sea coast of the Dutch barrier island of Schiermonnikoog is covered by microbial
mats that initiate a succession of plant communities that eventually results in the …