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Long-term incubations provide insight into the mechanisms of anaerobic oxidation of methane in methanogenic lake sediments
Hanni Vigderovich
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Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Ben-Gurion
University of the Negev, Be'er Sheva, Israel
Werner Eckert
The Yigal Allon Kinneret Limnological Laboratory, Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research, Migdal, Israel
Michal Elul
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Ben-Gurion
University of the Negev, Be'er Sheva, Israel
Maxim Rubin-Blum
Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research, Haifa, Israel
Marcus Elvert
Organic Geochemistry Group, MARUM – Center for Marine Environmental Sciences and Faculty of
Geosciences, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany
Orit Sivan
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Ben-Gurion
University of the Negev, Be'er Sheva, Israel
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Anaerobic oxidation of methane (AOM) is one of the major processes limiting the release of the greenhouse gas methane from natural environments. Here we show that significant AOM exists in the methane zone of lake sediments in natural conditions and even after long-term (ca. 18 months) anaerobic slurry incubations with two stages. Methanogens were most likely responsible for oxidizing the methane, and humic substances and iron oxides are likely electron acceptors to support this oxidation.
Anaerobic oxidation of methane (AOM) is one of the major processes limiting the release of the...
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