Microbial processes in gassy sediments: Linking rates, organisms and 
environments

Boetius, A.

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Microbial processes in gassy sediments: Linking rates, organisms and environments

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Boetius, A.
HGF MPG Joint Research Group for Deep Sea Ecology & Technology, Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Max Planck Society;

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Boetius, A. (2004). Microbial processes in gassy sediments: Linking rates, organisms and environments. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 68(11 Suppl. Suppl. S), A343-A343.

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Abstract

The subsurface seabed is a gigantic bioreactor and would also be a substantial source for methane on earth, if rising gases were not efficiently utilized by microbial methanotrophic guilds. More than 90 percent of the methane rising from the subsurface ocean is oxidized anaerobically with sulfate as electron acceptor. It is a striking fact that this process of unknown functioning, carried out by very few phylogenetic groups of archaea, substantially effects atmospheric concentrations of methane.