Methanogenic potential of Arctic and Antarctic subglacial environments with contrasting organic carbon sources

Global Change Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 3332-3345

  Stibal, Marek ^a,b   Wadham, Jemma L ^a   Lis, Grzegorz P ^a   Telling, Jon ^a   Pancost, Richard D ^a   Dubnick, Ashley ^c   Sharp, Martin J ^c   Lawson, Emily C ^a   Butler, Catriona E H ^a   Hasan, Fariha ^a,d   Tranter, Martyn ^a   Anesio, Alexandre M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^d QUAID I AZAM UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Ice sheets; Methanogenesis; Organic carbon; Subglacial environment

Indexed keywords

ICE SHEET; METHANOGENESIS; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; ORGANIC CARBON; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SUBGLACIAL ENVIRONMENT;

ANTARCTICA; ARCTIC;

ARCHAEA; METHANOMICROBIALES; METHANOSARCINALES;

EID: 84867215667     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2012.02763.x     Document Type: Article

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