Microbial methane cycling in the bed of a chalk river: Oxidation has the potential to match methanogenesis enhanced by warming

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 150-160

  Shelley, Felicity ^a   Abdullahi, Frah ^a   Grey, Jonathan ^a   Trimmer, Mark ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chemosynthesis; Gravel river bed; Greenhouse gas; Methanogenesis; Methanotrophy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84915803079     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: 13652427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/fwb.12480     Document Type: Article

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