Metabolic and trophic interactions modulate methane production by Arctic peat microbiota in response to warming

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 112, Issue 19, 2015, Pages E2507-E2516

  Tveit, Alexander Tøsdal ^a   Urich, Tim ^b,c   Frenzel, Peter ^d   Svenning, Mette Marianne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c Austrian Polar Research Institute   (Austria)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR TERRESTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Arctic peat; Methane; Microorganisms; SOC mineralization; Temperature

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID; ACETYL COENZYME A; ACETYL COENZYME A SYNTHETASE; ALCOHOL; DIMETHYLAMINE; FORMATE DEHYDROGENASE; FORMATE TETRAHYDROFOLATE LIGASE; HYDROLASE; METHANE; METHYLAMINE; PEAT; POLYSACCHARIDE; PROPIONIC ACID; RIBOSOME RNA; SMALL SUBUNIT RIBOSOMAL RNA; CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; HYDROGEN; SOIL;

ALCOHOL OXIDATION; ARCTIC; ARCTIC PEAT MICROBIOTA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTEROIDETES; CARBON STORAGE; CERCOZOA; DRY WEIGHT; ENZYME MECHANISM; FERMENTATION; GENOMICS; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HYDROLYSIS; LIMIT OF DETECTION; METAGENOMICS; METATRANSCRIPTOMIC; METHANOBACTERIALES; METHANOGENESIS; METHANOSAETACEAE; METHANOSARCINACEAE; MICROBIAL BIOMASS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPIONATE OXIDATION; SOIL MICROFLORA; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; ARCHAEON; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROFLORA; SOIL; SPHAGNOPSIDA; STATISTICAL MODEL; TEMPERATURE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDETES; CERCOZOA; FIRMICUTES; METHANOBACTERIALES; METHANOMICROBIALES; METHANOSAETACEAE; METHANOSARCINACEAE; PROTISTA;

ARCHAEA; ARCTIC REGIONS; CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; CHROMATOGRAPHY, GAS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; FERMENTATION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GLOBAL WARMING; HYDROGEN; HYDROLYSIS; LINEAR MODELS; METHANE; MICROBIOTA; POLYSACCHARIDES; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; SOIL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; SPHAGNOPSIDA; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84929224118     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1420797112     Document Type: Article

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