Influence of temperature on pathways to methane production in the permanently cold profundal sediment of Lake Constance

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 1-14

  Schulz, Silke ^a   Conrad, Ralf ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR TERRESTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acetate; Chloroform; Fluor oacetate; Gibbs free energy; Homoacetogenesis; Hydrogen; Methanogenesis; Most probable number; Temperature

Indexed keywords

2 PROPANOL; CARBON DIOXIDE; CHLOROFORM; FLUOROACETIC ACID; HEXANOIC ACID; METHANE; PROPIONIC ACID; PROTON; VALERIC ACID;

ARTICLE; GERMANY; LAKE; METHANOBACTERIUM; METHANOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDIMENT; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; THERMODYNAMICS;

METHANOBACTERIUM;

HOMOACETOGENESIS; LAKE SEDIMENT; LAKE TEMPERATURE; METHANE PRODUCTION; METHANOGENESIS;

GERMANY, BAVARIA, LAKE CONSTANCE;

EID: 0029659727     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0168-6496(96)00009-8     Document Type: Article

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